The night after the John Glenn program, I pitched the terraforming idea to my students. I asked them if they'd like to terraform Mars as a big class project; I wanted to throw the idea to them and see how they would react. Already I had a vision of splitting the class into several groups and having each group take charge of a portion of the project. ... Following my initial idea on how to conduct the project, I split the class into six groups, each student choosing his or her group. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 14 January 1999, 0950 UT (RR) . Term 'global change' is used to describe the changes of the large scale weather systems on Earth , and especially the surface temperature increase, by man-made increase of atmospheric CO 2 . ... It is the last point that is of importance for space physics, since it is possible that also the changes in Sun 's activity could be causing some changes in terrestrial climate. ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

PAGE 4 Climate Change - A Personal View By Dr John Butler, Armagh Observatory Photograph taken by Karl Jordan Photograph taken by Ciara Stephens Few people in the western world, or indeed further afield, can now be unaware of the concern expressed in the media about the possible effects of climate change and, in particular, of global warming. ... So where are we now after a decade when there was so much discussion, hype and media attention given to global warming and its cause? ...

For Cycle 9 the Science Program Selection Office (SPSO) has changed the selection process to ensure that HST will continue to perform the best possible science with the best return for the astronomical community. This report summarizes the changes to the selection process and offers suggestions on writing an effective proposal that accounts for these changes. ... Fewer panels: With more orbits to allocate, each panel will have more flexibility, especially to approve the somewhat larger proposals. ...

... A uv variable can change its value in any part of the uv variable stream. So it can change its value after each call to uvread , uvnext or uvscan . The uv routines which need to know if a uv variable has changed ( uvprobvr , uvcopyvr and uvupdated ) normally (i.e. by default) work on whether the particular variable(s) of interest has changed since the last ``mark'' in the uv stream. ... The uvmark routine provides greater control at marking the position in the stream. ...

... MAO main . ... July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... Тема: July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... July 2014 Issue Highlights . ... Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 1 . ... Extra Sensory Perception How a world filled with sensors will change the way we see, hear, think and live . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. The most recent ESO observations of bright Comet Hyakutake have shown rapid changes in the innermost coma, within a few hundred kilometres from the cometary nucleus. This result has only become possible because of the unusual combination of a bright comet being near the Earth, together with the excellent imaging quality of the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ... Go to the ESO Homepage for Comet Hyakutake . ESO/La Silla | ...

The Australian Academy of Science is releasing The science of climate change: questions and answers and it is must reading no matter what your view is of Global Warming. It is a consensus overview by Australia's most expert climate scientists, overseen by the Academy, to explain what we know, and we do not know about anthropogenic climate change, and how we might mediate future changes. ... However, my own scientific opinions in my areas of expertise are consistent with their conclusions. ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

130 Years of Earth Surface Temperatures . ... The above movie dramatizes the result showing 130 years of planet-wide temperature changes relative to the local average temperatures in the mid-1900s. In the above global maps , red means warmer and blue means colder . On average, the display demonstrates that the temperature on Earth has increased by nearly one degree Celsius over the past 130 years, and many of the warmest years on record have occurred only recently. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... solar system . ... Scientists discover factors to predicting changes in comet rotation . ... Scientists studied comets including 103P/Hartley, shown here, to develop a way to predict rotational changes in comets. ... PSI Senior Scientists Nalin H. Samarasinha and Beatrice E.A. Mueller have determined such changes are a function of a comet s size, period, and the solar energy it receives, but surprisingly not a function of the fraction of a comet s surface that is active. ...

Callisto ("ka LIS toh") is the eighth of Jupiter 's known satellites and the second largest. ... Discovered by Galileo and Marius in 1610. ... Unlike Ganymede , Callisto seems to have little internal structure; however there are signs from recent Galileo data that the interior materials have settled partially, with the percentage of rock increasing toward the center. ... Callisto's surface is covered entirely with craters. ... Like Ganymede, Callisto's ancient craters have collapsed. ... Jupiter .. ...

... Return to the Kernel page . ... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . One might be tempted to think that the basic task of keeping track of the time would not change that much from one kernel to the next. ... One change which shouldn't be problematic for most code is the change in the internal clock rate on the x86 architecture. In previous kernels, HZ was 100; in 2.6 it has been bumped up to 1000. ... Driver porting: Timekeeping changes . ...

DAVID BOWIE - CHANGES I still down know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets Every time I thought I'd got it made It seems the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse Of how the others must see the faker I'm much too fast to take that test Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Don't have to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Don't want to be a better man ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...