... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 21 . Solar Sail . Illustration Credit: NASA / MSFC . Explanation: Could solar sailing become a future Olympic sport ? Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails . ...

... Launched in the early 1970s Pioneer 10 and 11 were appropriately named - becoming the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, first to fly by Jupiter and Saturn, and the first human artifacts to venture beyond the solar system. ... A Distant Galaxy in the Deep Field . ... Voyager's Preview of Galileo at Ganymede . ... North to the Moon's Pole . ... This image is from the voyage of the intrepid Galileo spacecraft as it passed above the Moon's north pole on its long journey to Jupiter. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on December 1, 2015 | No Comments A spectacular multi-coloured fireball was witnessed in Ireland and Scotland by dozens of people on the evening of 29 November 2015. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . ...

... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

... Sun images . ... August : 2015 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere . Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.08.2015 at 13:12 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.08.2015 at 13:12 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.08.2015 at 13:19 UT with MDI instrument on board SOHO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.08.2015 at 13:09 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file | real time plot . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | DEC 1 (ASCII file, size more then 350Kb!) ... Back to the IB_TAIL Home page. Updated 13 June, 2000 . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Spacecraft . ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Kosmos-2392 Began Its Watch . After two maneuvers, Kosmos-2392/Araks spacecraft entered operational orbit with 12-orbit repeating track. ... Russian Orbital Constellation . As of August 31, 91 Russian spacecraft were in operation, of them 42 military ones, 41 civilians and 14 double-purpose birds. ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... IB_MAG5) . ... NASA) . GEOTAIL . NASA, ISAS) . The four spacecraft . ... Modified 20 February 2000 . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Dnepr Space Head Module integration with customers spacecraft was successfully completed in the Yasny Launch Base AITB on November 13, 2013. 14.11.2013 . ... Mission profile . ...

CAL/FOS­112­1 FOS Dead Diode Reference Files: A Quick Reference Guide to the Appropriate File for a Particular Date and Instrumental Configuration Cynthia J. Taylor Space Telescope Science Institute FOS Instrument Science Report CAL/FOS­112 August 1994 Abstract Complete tabulations of recommended Dead Diode reference files (.r4h, .r4d) for each specified USEAFTER date are presented in a convenient matrix formatAS OF 6 AUGUST 1994. ... Since April 1992 the default value for DEFDDTTBL has beenFALSE. ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... At S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of N.N. Sevastyanov, Corporation President, General Designer, took place the next session of the General Designer’s Review Board on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS). ... The Report on the status of Soyuz TMA-9 manned transport spacecraft launch processing (reporter: Yu.I.Grigoriev, RSC Energia Deputy General Designer, Director of Orbital Complex Programs); . ...

... It was discovered that it would pass about 0.02 AU (about 3 million miles) from the Earth on 1998 August 11 --- close enough to be observed by the Arecibo Planetary Radar and (at much lower S/N) by the Goldstone Solar System Radar. ... Even at this distance, the Arecibo Planetary Radar can obtain images at up to 7 meter resolution. ... This delay-Doppler image of asteroid 1998 ML14 was taken on UTC 1998 August 15 12:45. ... A higher-resolution image taken on Aug 16. ... The Arecibo Observatory . ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . Books . ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . Books of Note . Purchase through the AstroShop . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . Mercury Advertising Rates . ... ASP E-mail Newsletters . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... July/August 2000 . ... Welcome to the 21st Century, Arthur C. Clarke, Ryder W. Miller . ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

... VS experiment codes are VSOP Survey Observations VT Test/Calibration Observations --------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES V028a2 J1733-13 L Socr 156 Su:Jun-04 06:00 - 13:00 11 VLBA TI W030e2 J1733-13 C Socr 157 Mo:Jun-05 04:00 - 13:00 11 VLBA CD W031b VS01m W030e3 J1733-13 C Pent 157 Mo:Jun-05 13:00 - 20:00 4 HH CD UD KA W031B W030f1 J1911-20 C ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

Easy DMT: Using the chInterface Class to Create/Upgrade DMT Monitors Rauha Rahkola, Univ. of Oregon LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 LIGO Hanford Observatory Richland, WA LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT Introduction to the chInterface utility class ! ... Run through the data 1. for each channel, either: ! ... Final report LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 Hanford 3 LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT The chInterface Model ! ... No Yes Yes Defaults to RMS of data addChannel addFilter New channel? ...

In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...