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 .. ...

Orbital intersection . ... Structure of Taurid stream . ... Meteoroid swarm and Taurid fireballs . ... The following four diagrams schematically show four different Taurid orbits and the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. ... The Taurid stream contains particles (small, solid grains) at different stages of their precession cycles. ... The study of when a meteor stream can produce a meteor shower is the study of when precession brings orbits to intersection with Earth, or e.g. with Mars . ...

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The H II complex N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides an excellent site to perform a detailed study of star formation in a mild starburst, as it hosts three regions of star formation at different evolutionary stages, and it is not as complicated and confusing as the 30 Doradus giant H II region. We have obtained Spitzer Space Telescope observations and complementary ground-based 4 m uBVIJK observations of N 44 to identify candidate massive young stellar objects (YSOs). ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... Sampling Descretization of a continuous-in-time signal into a finite number of samples Nyquist-Shannon Theorem: lossless for real sampling if t Lossless for complex sampling if t 1 1 2 Quantization Approximation of a range by a finite set of values Each value can be represented by a code for internal representation A reconstructed signal will differ from the original due to introduction of quantization ...

Ganymede . ... Ganymede Statistics . ... Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede . ... Like Callisto , Ganymede is most likely composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice. ... Ganymede's mantle is most likely composed of ice and silicates, and its crust is probably a thick layer of water ice. ... Ganymede's surface is rich in water ice and Voyager and Galileo images show features which are evidence of geological and tectonic disruption of the surface in the past. ...

Ganymede . ... Ganymede Statistics . ... Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede . ... Like Callisto , Ganymede is most likely composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice. ... Ganymede's mantle is most likely composed of ice and silicates, and its crust is probably a thick layer of water ice. ... Ganymede's surface is rich in water ice and Voyager and Galileo images show features which are evidence of geological and tectonic disruption of the surface in the past. ...

... 1838 для глухих детей (Москва) . Teaching and Educational Complex No. 1838 for the Deaf Children (Moscow, Russia) . ... Some materials (such us the children pages, texts for parents and so on) are not included in English version. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

Improving the Orbital Parameters of Phobos and Deimos by Using the Universal Programming Complex ERA . ... The ERA system was used for developing the numerical dynamical theory of Phobos and Deimos. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Small Solar System Body (SSSB), Phobos, Deimos, improving the orbital parameters, Universal Programming Complex ERA, Martian satellite dynamics, the numerical dynamical theory, the secular acceleration, database of the satellites observations. ...

The spectrophotometrical complex of the 6-m telescope in Nasmyth-1 focus . ... A new sample of 360 blue compact galaxies with a strong star formation was build on the base of the Second Byurakan Survey. ... More that 20 galaxies with the extremely low-abundances of heavy elements in the range of 1/30-1/10 of the Sun's one, were found. ... During the 15-years observation term near 500 spectra of the unique source SS~433, from which the relativistic jets were found for the first time, were obtained. ...

... Carefully measure the diameter of the craters formed by the impact without disturbing the sand. ... Crater diameter increases with increasing mass. ... Without disturbing the sand, carefully measure the crater diameter. ... Did you measure any difference in the diameters of the craters? Yes, as velocity increases, so does crater diameter. ... Impact cratering. ... Impact craters can be demonstrated with younger or less advanced students using mud instead of sand and ball bearings. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

. ATMOSPHERIC INFLUENCE ON THE DIFFERENT RADIO-ENGINEERING . SYSTEM FUNCTIONING . The calculations of the atmospheric impact on terrestrial and satellite communication links with frequencies above 10 GHz using the ITU-R data bank. The correction of the Earth cover optical images obtained from the satellite/ . The Earth atmospheric influence on the radiowave propagation parameters in wide frequency range (from SLF to UV). Contact e-mail: . Pozhidayev Victor, Ph.D - vic@cplire.ru . © IRE RAS 1996-20 11

... The Star Pillars of Sharpless 171 . ... Towering pillars of cold gas and dark dust adorn the center star forming region of Sharpless 171. An open cluster of stars is forming there from the gas in cold molecular clouds. ... Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? ... Giant Dust Ring Discovered Around Saturn . ... At over 200 times the radius of Saturn and over 50 times the radius of Saturn's expansive E ring, the newly discovered dust ring is the largest planetary ring yet imaged. ...

The computed band passes. ... The interim correlator input is filtered by 8 analog filters (50 Mhz wide at the 260 Mhz IF... one for each sub correlator). ... For bandwidths of 25 Mhz and below the real data stream is digitally down converted to complex samples I, Q streams. ... The Top figure is the halfband filter bandpass computed from the filter coefficients. ... The computed filter has aliased power, extra IQ filtering, and two applications of the filter on the resulting real bandpass. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...