New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa . Chunky ice rafts and relatively smooth, crater-free patches on the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa suggest a younger, thinner icy surface than previously believed, according to new images from Galileo's spacecraft released today. ... These features, which lend credence to the idea of hidden, subsurface oceans, also are stirring up controversy among scientists who disagree about the age of Europa's surface. ... Europa . ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

... Mars: Cydonia Close Up . ... Credit: Mars Global Surveyor Project , NASA Explanation: The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has returned another close-up of the Cydonia region on Mars. Orbiting over clear Martian skies at a range of about 200 miles, the Mars Orbiter Camera looked down on features known as the "City" on Mars and produced a high resolution image covering a swath around 1.5 by 15 miles at a pixel size of about 8.2 feet. ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

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 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) . ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... Venus is a geologist's dream planet.' ... Because Venus is so similar in diameter and mass to our world, and also has a gaseous atmosphere, it has been called the Earth's "sister planet''. ... New radar images of Venus, just returned from NASA's Magellan spacecraft orbiting the planet, have provided astronomers the clearest view ever of its surface, revealing unique geological features, meteor impact craters, and evidence of volcanic eruptions different from any others found in the solar system. ...

... Click on this icon if you would like to see a collection of snapshots of actual pages from the "Magellan Highlights of Venus" Electronic PictureBook. ... The Magellan Highlights of Venus Electronic PictureBook is a HyperCardЁ stack designed to run on a color MacintoshЁ computer with at least 2.5 megabytes of available RAM, sufficient hard disk space to contain the Electronic Picturebook, System 7.0, and HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Home . ... There simply isn't space to cover all of glib's features in this book. ... Here's a brief list of features not already mentioned: . ... G_VA_COPY copies a va_list in a portable way. ... Convenience/portability routines to get the user's home directory, get the name of a /tmp directory, and similar tasks. ... If you need some generally-useful routine that's not in glib already, consider writing it in glib style and contributing it to the library! ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... The Meade StarNavigatorтДв series was designed with ease of use and convenience in mind. ... Spare Parts . ... LX - Rear Thread Aluminum Dust Cover . ... Rear Thread Aluminum Dust Cover for SC and ACF optical tubes. ...

... Archives . ... News and related stories . ... Another rabbit I missed came to a realization by a friend, who was sure that I already knew this ?call for papers? notice for the special issue of the signal processing magazine (SPM). ... The slog has some SPM article review posts, as you recall. ... I believed that research topics in signal processing is very strongly associated with astronomical data analysis. ... hlee on Do people use Fortran? ... Chandra Blog . ... What?s new . ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

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... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

... Apollo 15 brings back 4 billion-year-old moon rock . ... Scott said. ... During the crew?s three spacewalks, Scott and James B. Irwin spent almost nineteen hours exploring the moon and covered 17.5 miles of lunar terrain in the lunar rover. ... For more information on the crew training, traverses, and experiences of some of the instructors for Apollo 15, read some selected oral history interview excerpts available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/special_events/Apollo15.htm...

... The Scientist's Expert Assistant (SEA) is a prototype effort for the Next Generation Space Telescope that uses a combination of artificial intelligence and user interface techniques to explore ways to substantially reduce the time and effort involved in proposal preparation for both scientists and the telescope operations staff. ... At the time, SEA supported only a single observation, had the basics of a graphical exposure calculator and a visual target tuner, and had a very limited expert system. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Future Projects . ... This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the positions of the past, present and predicted future appearances of the Refsdal supernova behind the galaxy cluster€а MACS J1149+2223 . ...