... A Mars Panorama from the Spirit Rover . ... Two Worlds, One Sun, is the legend emblazoned on the Spirit rover's camera calibration target. ... Recorded by the rover's panoramic camera, the picture is part of Spirit's first color image of Mars - the highest resolution picture yet taken on the surface of another planet. ... The picture is a portion of the 3D panorama of the Spirit rover's landing site released yesterday, constructed with data from the Mars rover's navigation cameras. ...

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... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

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Using the data obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) legacy survey, we have studied the variations of the dust composition and abundance across the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Using a model and comparing with a reference spectral energy distribution from our Galaxy, we deduce the relative abundance variations of small dust grains across the LMC. ... ADS Citation Query . ... citations vs. year [year,citations] . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... February . ... By admin February 16, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A roll?n?rock can be seen in this image from NASA?s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... This rolling stone gathered no moss but left its track in the regolith until the slope levelled off and it slowed to a halt. ... Then the Moon shone down on an Earth that€а looked superficially familiar to that of today but was oddly different. ...

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope Technical Note 19910801 . ... It has long been apparent that an all-sky picture of clouds over an observatory site and available in near real-time would be a great benefit to personnel using a telescope. ... We have anecdotal evidence from J.T. Williams of MMTO and David Westfall, formerly of CFHT and now of New Mexico Institute of Mining, that video-rate 10 micron cameras are very effective at imaging clouds. ... The focal length of the mirror is 25 mm. ...

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... 2004 January 16 . Martian Surface in Perspective . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Spirit moved across Mars yesterday as the rover successfully maneuvered down off its lander, driving its six wheels onto the floor of Gusev crater. ... A perspective projection of Spirit's local martian rocks and soil is shown above, based on 3D color image data recorded when rover was still perched on its landing platform. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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... OOF . ... OOF Index . ... OOF software . ... Fits up to fifth order . ... These are experimental data currently being analysed, not final documentation of research. ... Only fitting for Zernike orders up to and including 3rd to concentrate on finding possible off-axis aberrations. ... The results below show that when fitting for all Zernikes up to and including fifth order, the output maps vary greatly between pixels. As above, but fitting up to fifth order Zernike polynomial. ...

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In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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... Imaging of land and water surfaces in three spectral bands onboard remote sensing and weather satellites. ... Digital mid-resolution multi-spectral imaging systems (MSU) register information on three CCD-lines equipped with different filters. A digital signal processor serves for the image data preprocessing. ... For the future modifications the MSU-100M and MSU-200 cameras, operating in the visible and near-infrared bands are being developed. ... MSU-50 . ... 7926 . ... Angular FOV , deg . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

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... High-velocity clouds (HVCs) were discovered by Muller, Oort & Raimond (1963) in the 21-cm line emission of neutral, atomic hydrogen. They are gas clouds which are characterised by high radial velocities incompatible with a participation in the rotation of our Galaxy. ... This suggestion was seized by Braun & Burton (1999) who identified 66 compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) with positional and kinematic characteristics being compatible with a distribution across the entire Local Group. ...

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Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

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... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... High-altitude clouds on Mars . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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• With the Moon's terminator moving almost 10 mph (16 km/h) across its equator,
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... Other planets also have mantles. ... From Lava Lamps to Lava Flows . The urge of the mantle to lose heat can also cause rock to bubble up toward the surface in blobs. ... Because blobs carry hot rock from the interior of the planet toward the surface, they supply volcanoes with lava. ... Convection cycles can be tens of thousands of miles tall, as they are in stars; hundreds of miles tall, as they are in planets; or just a few inches tall, as they are in tea kettles. ...

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• ASP: Star Science in the Autumn Sky
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... This photograph shows a little-known cloud of cosmic gas and dust (known as a nebula) called Gum 15. This picture was snapped using a large telescope based in one of the most extreme environments on Earth; a very dry and very remote region of Chile called the Atacama Desert. ... Although all that makes the Atacama Desert sound uninviting it is the ideal location for a telescope. ... The higher a telescope is based, the less atmosphere it has to look through to see the stars. ...

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• Panning across part of the Large Magellanic Cloud | ESO
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Proposal Identification No.: A2644 Date Received: 2011-Jun-03 17:31:32 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Galactic 24 Hours 1.5 hours HI Absorption Line Study Toward The Perseus Molecular Cloud Recent analytical model for H2 formation in giant molecular clouds by Krumholz et al. ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

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