Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere On Jupiter's Moon Europa . Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's second moon, Europa . ... Europa's oxygen atmosphere is so tenuous that its surface pressure is barely one hundred billionth that of the Earth," said Principal Investigator Doyle Hall, of Johns Hopkins. ... The oxygen gas slowly leaks into space and must be replenished continuously. ...

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NAIC Guidelines for ALFA Consortia Proposals (Draft May 7, 2004) R. L. Brown At the May 6, 2004 teleconference of the ALFA System Advisory and Planning (ASAP) committee several issues were identified as being critical to informing the process by which guidelines are developed by NAIC for handling the ALFA consortia proposals. ... Planning for shared-risk precursor observations, a primary purpose of which is to demonstrate the readiness of the survey teams to conduct their planned survey observations. ...

Next: Data reduction Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: Spectral observations and data . All results presented below have been obtained by observations with the Russian 6m telescope, mainly in the snap-shot mode during 4 runs between December 1998 and February 2000. ... We used a grating with 300 grooves/mm (see log of observations in Table 2 ) and a long slit of 2 40. ... Additional data were obtained with a grating of 650 grooves/mm giving a dispersion of 2.4 ?/pixel. ...

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... 2007 February 27 . Atmospheres Detected for Two Extrasolar Planets . ... Explanation: Do extrasolar planets have water? In an attempt to find out, the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope made detailed observations of the atmospheres of two planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. ... Although no water vapor was detected this time, the techniques of measuring exoplanet atmospheres are quite promising, and the search for distant water and other biomarkers is just beginning. ... About APOD | ...

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