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Astronomy Picture of the Day . Welcome to Planet Earth . ... 31.01.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: Apollo 17 Crew , NASA Explanation: Welcome to Planet Earth, the third planet from a star named the Sun . The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock . Over 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water . ... Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - planet . Publications with words: Earth - planet . ... All the Water on Planet Earth . ...

... Planet Finder Options I: Linear Nulling Arrays for Studying Earth-Like Planets . ... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... This paper shows options for configuring a symmetric linear nulling array as a Planet Finder. Of special interest are linked in-line pairs of identical sub-arrays with a quarter wave phase shift between them and staggered by half an element spacing. ...

... 2010 July 13 . Mosaic: Welcome to Planet Earth . Credit: Apollo 17 Crew , NASA ; Photographic Mosaic Digital Copyright : Rob Stevenson . Explanation: Welcome to Planet Earth , the third planet from a star named the Sun . The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock . Over 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water . The planet has a relatively thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen . ... Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. ... About APOD | ...

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spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 12 March 1999, 0935 UT (RR) . ... In first order the magnetic field created by this magnet is that of a dipole whose axis is tilted with respect to the spin axis by about 11 degrees. ... The difference between the dipole axis and geographic axis is one of the reasons why there are so many different coordinate systems needed to describe locations in space around the Earth. The area around the Earth governed by its magnetic field is called the magnetosphere . ...

... 2000 October 28 . Moonrise, Planet Earth . Credit: STS-35 Crew, NASA . ... In the foreground, towering clouds of condensing water vapor mark the extent of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's life-sustaining atmosphere . ... Moon and clouds are strong visual elements of many well known portraits of planet Earth , including Ansel Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" , photographed in 1941. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

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... Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... Mission Definition . Ask anyone on the street to give an example of a planet, and they'll consider you a bit dim. ... Finally, if you ask "What is the exact scientific definition of 'planet'?", it turns out that nobody can answer it, because there really isn't one. ... The word itself means "wanderer" in Greek, and other cultures generally have words for "planet" with a similar meaning. So why isn't that good enough for us today? ...

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... 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 . ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

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The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . This project was established in mid-1998 to help coordinate, and provide a focal point for, the study of those comets and asteroids that can approach the Earth's orbit. ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

... XI. 2015 acific l ym p i a d Dh aka , Ban g l ad esh G r o u p lang lang uage uage English , , Parameters of orbits and physical characteristics of some planets, Sun, Moon and Eris , . Average distance to central body in in astr. mln. units km 1,6·10 9 . ... For outer planets and Moon ­ in mean opposition. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth . ... arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth (Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization) . ... Описан проект <A HREF=" http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html ">Sky in Google Earth</A>. ... http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/167.html#arxiv/0709.0752 . ... Еще они нам сказали, что image processing для DSS2 какие-то фонари в Гуггле делали 2 года!! ... А черт знает что там они делали два года. ...