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... 2000 December 19 . A Close-Up of Aurora on Jupiter . ... Explanation: Jupiter has aurorae . ... Electric force attracts these electrons back. ... Unlike Earth's aurorae , Jupiter's aurorae include several bright streaks and dots . These marks are caused by magnetic flux tubes connecting Jupiter to its largest moons . Specifically, Io caused the bright streak on the far left, Ganymede caused the bright dot below center, and Europa caused the dot to its right. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: A dramatic mosaic of recent images from the Galileo spacecraft reveals details of swirling clouds and a thick stratospheric haze in the atmosphere of Jupiter, the Solar System's largest planet. This false color representation is keyed to altitude - red indicates cloud features near the top of the gas giant's extensive atmosphere while blue corresponds to features at depth. ... What causes the red haze? ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter . ...

... They had expected to see impact craters like those on the other terrestrial bodies and from their number per unit area to estimate the age of Io's surface. ... This may have been the most important single discovery of the Voyager missions; it was the first real proof that the interiors of other "terrestrial" bodies are actually hot and active. ... A nalysis of the Voyager images led scienties to believe that the lava flows on Io's surface were composed mostly of various compounds of molten sulfur. ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Planetary Radar . ... A program of delay-Doppler mapping of the Galillean satellites is underway by L. Harcke and colleagues at Stanford University. The surfaces of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have been imaged in order to determine the surface properties and look for different radar properties of the various terrain types. These maps will be correlated with the Galileo images of the satellites.€а . ...

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... Chapter 4: Solar System Targets > 4.2 Target Identification . ... The following information is required to identify and classify each target. ... For example, separate targets should be defined if you plan to take spectra of several different surface features on a planet, or if you plan to observe the same feature with different timing constraints. ... Description . PLANET . If the target is the center of a planet, enter PLANET followed by its name (e.g., PLANET JUPITER , PLANET SATURN ). ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

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... Data Reduction FAQ > A number of OmegaCAM filters show vignetting in their central regions. What are the causes for this and what are the dimensions of these features? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... A number of OmegaCAM filters are not monolithic, but consist of four segments (each covering 8 detectors) that have a central cross-shaped support structure. ... Filter . ...

Stationary Shock Waves. ... Influence of Medium Ionization on Shock Wave Propagation. Shock Waves with Decays. ... Results of Classic Theory of Radiation of the Electron Moving in Ion Field. ... Classification and Physical Features of Galaxies. X-Radiation of Coronae of Elliptical Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies. ... Methods of Obtaining of Information about Physical Conditions and Components of Interstellar Medium. ... Ionization Fronts and Shock Waves in the Interstellar Medium. ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Images . ... The two images shown here are from 10 days of observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array between 12 and 26 July 1995, and were intended for comparison with observations of Jupiter at the time of impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. ...

Next: Feature enhancement: normalizing Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: pulsing . The inverse transform is at the core of the best known applications of wavelets: data compaction and numerics. ... Two applications fall within our scope: filtering and denoising. Filtering consists of using only a portion of the wavelet map in the inverse transform process, masking out certain durations. ... Figure 23: Filtered reconstruction of the intermittent signal. ...