... The mission will consist of a stationary lander and a surface rover. The mission has the primary objective of demonstrating the feasibility of low-cost landings on and exploration of the Martian surface. ... The spacecraft will be launched in December 1996 for an arrival on Mars in July 1997. The scientific objectives include atmospheric entry science, long-range and close-up surface imaging, with the general objective being to characterize the Martian environment for further exploration. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Lidar experiment cover story . ... Delta-2 launching vehicle delivered on a flight trajectory to the Mars the Polar Lander spacecraft. ... The main scientific goals are: Martian surface research, especially its light fractures and atmosphere research. ... The atmospheric sounding instrument aboard Mars Polar Lander is the LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, developed by team of Space Research Institute, RAS. The LIDAR system is a laser sounder located on the Mars Polar Lander deck. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Question:What do you need to protect an expensive state-of-the-art robotic vehicle that is far from human reach and about to crash at high speed on a rocky alien surface?Answer:Retrograde rockets, parachutes, airbags, and an aeroshell.These are found in the makeup of a lander module that was used to bring rovers Spirit and Opportunity described by the missionтАЩs director as тАЬrobotic field geologistsтАЭ safely to the Martian surface in 2004. ...

... While the average temperature on Mars is about 218 K (-55 C, -67 F), Martian surface temperatures range widely from as little as 140 K (-133 C, -207 F) at the winter pole to almost 300 K (27 C, 80 F) on the day side during summer. ... Like Mercury and the Moon, Mars appears to lack active plate tectonics at present; there is no evidence of recent horizontal motion of the surface such as the folded mountains so common on Earth . ... The Viking probes found little evidence of life on Mars. ... Earth ....

History of Space Exploration . ... Space History Introduction . ... Chronology of Solar System Discovery This is a partial list of past, present, and future planetary and solar missions; for a complete account, please see the Space Exploration Chronology. Space exploration is becoming increasingly internationalized; as a result, the national designations listed here are not completely representative of the true nature of all projects. ... Apollo Lunar Surface Journal . ... Mariner Missions . ...

... Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited . ... Credit Copyright: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASA Explanation: This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia . ... Of course , the Ares 3 landing coordinates are only about 800 kilometers north of the (real life) Carl Sagan Memorial Station , the 1997 Pathfinder landing site . ... Publications with keywords: Mars . Publications with words: Mars . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Red Rover?s Rocky Road . ... Centuries of telescopic observations and nearly 40 years of spacecraft flybys, orbiters, and landers have provided compelling evidence that Mars was once much more Earthlike than it is today. ... Big flagship missions like Mariner 9 and the Viking orbiters and landers provided most of our initial close-up views of the Red Planet. ... publications . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Terrence W. Wilcutt (Colonel, USMC) . DIRECTOR, SAFETY & MISSION ASSURANCE, JOHNSON SPACE CENTER . ... SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-68 Endeavour (September 30 to October 11, 1994) was part of NASA s Mission to Planet Earth. ... STS-79 Atlantis (September 16-26, 1996), the fourth in the joint American-Russian Shuttle- Mir series of missions, launched from and returned to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. ...

... Samples of expected results from an intensive search for planets about stars acting as gravitational lenses (lens stars) of galactic bulge stars (source stars) during microlensing events are constructed. ... The Gould and Loeb (1992) detection probabilities are scaled to arbitrary planetary mass and mean lens distance and averaged over the lens mass function. ... The expected total number of planets detected depends entirely on the assumptions about the nature of the planetary systems being sought. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

... Karpachev A.T., IZMIRAN, e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... The empirical median model of the shape and position of the MIT (Main Ionospheric Trough) in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is presented. ... Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.26, ? ... Karpachev A.T., Afonin V.V. Dependence of the ionospheric trough occurrence probability on the season, local time, longitude, and level of magnetic activity Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.38, ? ... Karpachev A.T. Characteristics of a Ring Ionospheric Trough. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . Search the site . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Unless you've been under a rock the past few days, you've heard that the Mars Pathfinder landed safely on the surface of Mars on Friday night. ... When it was about 30 or so meters above the surface, the probe, now encased in giant airbags, cast off the parachute and fell freely for the last few meters. ... 15,000,000 . ...

CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . ... 117.1578Bock+ The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, operating at 843 MHz with a 5 deg^2 field of view, is carrying out a radio imaging survey of the sky south of declination -30 deg. This survey (the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey, or SUMSS) produces images with a resolution of 43"x43" csc|delta| and an rms noise level of ~1 mJy beam^-1. ... See also MGPS2 Galactic plane survey. ...

Главная Проекты Mars Exploration Rover . ... With far greater mobility than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover, these robotic explorers will be able to trek up to 100 meters (about 110 yards) across the surface in a Martian day. ... The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. ... Where Pathfinder had scientific instruments on both the lander and the small Sojourner rover, these larger rovers will carry all their instruments with them. ...

The Homespun Dress (ascribed to Carrie Bell Sinclair) Oh, yes, I am a Southern girl, And glory in the name, And boast it with far greater pride Than glittering wealth or fame. ... For the sunny South so dear; Three cheers for the homespun dress The Southern ladies wear. The homespun dress is plain, I know, My hat's palmetto, too; But then it shows what Southern girls For Southern rights will do. ...