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 . ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

... 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. ...

... 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) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Dawn scientists chat about the mission . ... Scientists and engineers associated with NASA s Dawn mission teamed up to bring you these videos about the discoveries both behind and ahead of the spacecraft. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... 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 . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Galileo's First Color Image of Io . ... 19.07.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Above is the first color image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io released by the Galileo Project. ... The image was made on June 25 when the Galileo spacecraft approached within 1.4 million miles. ... While scientists continue to analyze this image and other recent Galileo data the robot spacecraft will continue to explore Jupiter's moons . ... July 1996 . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... Mid Cycle Submission . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Data Analysis . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Phase I . ... Data Files . ... Instrument Handbook . STIS Data Handbook . ... Previous SMOVs . ... HST Primer . ... ETC 18.0 Known Issues and Features . ...

... 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...

home publications > mercury . ... A Titan-ic Mission . ... Saturn's moon Titan seems like the stuff of science fiction, but it really exists, out there in the distant reaches of our own Solar System. ... Ringed Saturn, heavily veiled by the thick atmosphere of this small world, hangs low and huge in the sky. ... But under that heavy atmosphere, planetary scientists believe an exotic world awaits our discovery [see "Saturn and Titan on the Eve of Cassini-Huygens," September/October, p. 10]. ...

... 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. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... NASA Featured In New Nat Geo Documentary . ... Post Message | ... Hunt for Aliens features Peter Smith, Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona; Geoff Marcy, University of California Berkeley; Debra Fisher, Yale, Seth Shostak, SETI; Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University; and GeoffreyLandis, NASA. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... In spite of the fact that the orbit assumes a zero gravity (the scientists count on it by growing super-clean crystals and other materials impossible on the earth), in fact, none spacecraft provides such conditions. ... This question is answered by the device developed by SSAU scientists - Micro-acceleration Compensation Space System (MCSS). ... Then, the computer will give commands to the magnets that compensate micro-accelerations. ... Tags: 'photon-m4' mcss . ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY...

... 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 . ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

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. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... June 1983, Sally K. Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on Challenger's Flight Deck.( ... She also authored a hefty blueprint for future space exploration entitled Leadership and AmericaтАЩs Future in Space . ... Astronaut, scientist and teacher, Sally Ride (1951-2012) was one of those people who made a difference.She will be missed. ...

... 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. ...