Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Jupiter's icy moon Europa has a metallic core and layered internal structure similar to the Earth's , while the heavily cratered moon Callisto is a mixture of metallic rock and ice with no identifiable central core, according to new results from NASA's Galileo mission . In addition, recent plasma wave observations from Galileo show no evidence of a magnetic field or magnetosphere around Callisto, but do hint at the prospect of a tenuous atmosphere. ... Jupiter Galileo . ...

From: Andrew Melatos ( amelatos@isis.ph.unimelb.edu.au ) . Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 10:29:54 EST . Previous message: Andrew Melatos: "summary" . Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] . ... Andrew . MESSAGE/DELIVERY-STATUS attachment: stored . attached mail follows: . ... for the workshop. ... workshop. ...

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433 Eros is an S-type asteroid orbiting the Sun mostly between the orbits of Earth and Mars. orbit: 172,800,000 km from the Sun (average) size: 33x13x13 km . ... Eros has a giant gouge which was of interest. Here's a close-up image. ... NEAR, then renamed NEAR-Shoemaker (after Gene Shoemaker) On Monday, 12 February 2001, the NEAR spacecraft touched down (yes, landed) on asteroid Eros, after transmitting 69 close-up images of the surface during its final descent. ... Eros images from NEAR . ...

... The Round Earth . ... Some of the names he used for the Moon's crater are of persons discussed in "Stargazers"-- Tycho (distinguished by bright streaks that radiate from it), Ptolemy ("Ptolemaeus"), Copernicus , Kepler , Aristarchus , Hipparchus , Erathosthenes ; Meton and Pythagoras are on the edge, near the northern pole. ... Those moons display " palimpsest" craters which are merely surface markings, because as time passed, the walls which originally existed sagged back onto the flat surface. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA Explanation: After a seven month voyage of nearly 500 million kilometers through interplanetary space, NASA's Spirit Rover has reached the surface of Mars. Scroll right and see a mosaic panorama of Spirit's first images returned from its landing site in Gusev Crater! ... Updates on Spirit's status will be posted throughout the day. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - Spirit rover . ... Mars in View . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations . ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the extended upper atmosphere surrounding Mars. ... MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Abstract Return the character value of a kernel variable from the kernel pool. ... Brief_I/O VARIABLE I/O DESCRIPTION -------- --- -------------------------------------------------- name I Name of the variable whose value is to be returned. start I Which component to start retrieving for name room I The largest number of values to return. lenout I The length of the output string. n O Number of values returned for name. cvals O Values associated with name. found O True if variable is in pool. ...

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... StelScriptMgr Class Reference . ... const QStringљ . ... Stops any running script. ... If the file is not found or cannot be opened for some reason, an Empty string will be returned. const QString StelScriptMgr::getDescription . ... If the file is not found or cannot be opened for some reason, an Empty string will be returned. const QString StelScriptMgr::getLicense . ... Get the rate at which the script is running as a multiple of the normal execution rate. void StelScriptMgr::pauseScript . ...

News of events at Armagh Planetarium . ... Events . ... Archive | Family Events RSS feed for this section . by AP_admin on March 3, 2016 in Exhibitions , Family Events . Coming to galaxy near you is The Stars Awaken, a wonderful exhibition of€а full-size fan-built props and creations inspired by the amazing Star Wars saga! ... by AP_admin on February 29, 2016 in Family Events . ... Click here to receive news of special events at Armagh Planetarium . 2016 Armagh Planetarium Events. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

There are various kinds of generic information you can retrieve about an XPA access point by using the xpaget command. ... Each XPA access point supports a number of reserved sub-commands that provide access to different kinds of information, e.g. the access control for that access point. ... acl get (set) the access control list [options: host type acl, for set] . ... This access point is available only on the server machine. -env get (set) an environment variable [options: name (value, for set)] . ...

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... cfr 1256.7 . ... Plots were made of the total power vs time and azimuth for the 3 12 second periods using the 1256.7 Mhz signal. 256 channel spectra were computed (49.6 usecs) for the all the data . total power was computed for 1.1 Mhz about each of the two radar frequencies. total power vs time for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... the radar blanks for 1.421 seconds when pointing at AO. total power vs radar azimuth for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... Top: 1256.7 Mhz pulse . ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

... Note that the size of the returned array may be greater than the number of slices currently in the stack, with unused elements set to null. public int getSize () . Returns the number of slices in this stack. public java.lang.String[] getSliceLabels () . ... Returns null if the stack is empty or the label of the first slice is null. public java.lang.String getSliceLabel (int n) . ... Returns null if the slice does not have a label. public void setSliceLabel (java.lang.String label, int n) . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...