Apollo 15 . Return to Apollo 15 . ... AS15-85-11437 (31 July 1971) --- Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, with tongs and gnomon in hand, studies a boulder on the slope of Hadley Delta during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission's first extravehicular activity (EVA). The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), "Rover", is in the right foreground. ... Bennett Hill" is at extreme right. Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, took this photograph. ...

... Apollo 17 s Moonship . ... Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague) Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This sharp picture from the command module America , shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. ... This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972 - but where is Challenger now? ...

... Engineering experiments aimed at testing and developing engineering solutions for a future interplanetary vehicle were a prominent activity during missions of Salyut and Mir space stations. ... In October 1998, cosmonauts placed on the outside surface of Mir space station some samples of film-type solar array, which constitutes a key element of the Martian vehicle, in order to study how they are affected by actual space environments. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

If you go out tonight and look up at the full Moon, and you're like most people, you'll probably see the face of a man, or, alternatively, a rabbit superimposed on the bright disk of the Moon. ... When people look at the full Moon, they often see either a Man in the Moon (left) or a rabbit in the Moon (right). ... The Face on Mars is a naturally occurring rock outcropping that just happens to look like a face when lit from the side. ... The Face on Mars,'' Odyssey , October 1991, page 12. ...

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container which holds soil collected during the second moonwalk EVA. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -3.01, 23.42 . ... Instrument: Hasselblad Camera . ... Instrument Field of View (deg): 60 mm Focal Length . ... Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A . ... NASA Image ID number: AS12-H-49-7278 . ... Code 633, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA . ... Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Mal Ruderman (KIPAC, Stanford) . What do we see when we look at the surface of a neutron star from a great distance? ... The new point that is made is a consequence of near-relativistic electron-positron flows expected in the near-magnetosphere's of "young" (not older than about a million years) neutron stars. Because of cyclotron resonance scattering by these pair-flows on surface X-ray and UV emission, we do not see unprocessed suface emission. ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Apollo 17?s CSM, named America, seen over the Moon?s cratered surface. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Harrison Schmitt with our homeworld (Image credit: Eugene Cernan/NASA) . ... In this still from a video recording Schmitt is holding a rake used to collect small pebbles (Image credit: NASA) . ... The Earth was lower in the lunar sky over the Apollo 17 landing site than on other missions so it appears in more images. (image credit: NASA) . ...

... Æ.Ô. Ðîäèîíîâà, À.À.Êàðëîâ, Ò.Ï. Ñêîáåëåâà è äð. ... 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 . ...

... Views of the Moon . Apollo Lunar Surface Journal . ... Because the Moon has neither an atmosphere nor any water, the components in the soils do not weather chemically as they would on Earth. ... Courtesy NASA) . ... This view of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. ... A close-up view of an astronaut's footprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Moon. ... Earth . ...

. Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, stands by the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the early moments of the mission's first spacewalk. He was photographed by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., mission commander. While astronauts Shepard and Mitchell descended in the Lunar Module "Antares" to explore the Fra Mauro region of the Moon, astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Module "Kitty Hawk" in lunar orbit. NASA

... The Round Earth . ... Some of the names he used for the Moon's crater are of persons discussed in "Stargazers"-- Tycho (distinguished by bright streaks that radiate from it), Ptolemy ("Ptolemaeus"), Copernicus , Kepler , Aristarchus , Hipparchus , Erathosthenes ; Meton and Pythagoras are on the edge, near the northern pole. ... Those moons display " palimpsest" craters which are merely surface markings, because as time passed, the walls which originally existed sagged back onto the flat surface. ...

... The ejecta cone will detach. ... Mission Trajectory Launch Ja n 2, 200 4 Earth Flyby D ec 31, 2004 SUN S/C S/C Ea r th Orbit · · · Tempel 1 Orbit (5.5 year Period) Impact July 4, 2005 dsun = 1.51 AU dearth = 0.895 AU Earth at Encounter Perihelion July 5, 2005 dsun = 1.51 AU dearth = 0.900 AU Approach: E-2 mo to E-24 hr (E = impact event) · Images and spectra of coma to study rotation Impactor release: E-24 hr to E · Color images of coma and nucleus · Spectra of coma and nucleus ...

. The command man gives you access to an on-line manual containing a complete description of every command available on this system. man can also provide you with one line descriptions of commands specified by name; or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of keywords. Understanding the organisation of the manual . Searching by keyword . Checking the description of a command . Viewing manual pages . Printing manual pages .

Ýëåêòðîííàÿ áèáëèîòåêà àñòðîíîìà-ëþáèòåëÿ. ... áèáëèîòåêà . àðõèâ RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ìàðò 1998 . ... Äàòà: 26 ìàðòà 1998 (1998-03-26) Îò: Alexander Bondugin Òåìà: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Ïðèâåò âñåì! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

... B elfast City Council, 9 June 2008 : BelfastÁ€™s new Lord Mayor, Councillor Naomi Long, will be inviting the people of the city to literally Á€˜Look UpÁ€™ at the stars later this month. The Belfast City Carnival will help celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, when one of the highlights of the cityÁ€™s cultural calendar takes to the streets on Saturday 27 June. ... Direct link to the press release from Belfast City Council . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Next: The Lynxx Tools Up: Data Processing Previous: Data Processing . Each program allows the operator to get a quick look at the data and do some processing. The ST-4 and ST-6 have the same basic tools, so only the ST-6 tools will be described here. Most of the tools are under the display menu. When an image is displayed in analysis mode, data can be roughly analyzed. Any process done under display will only alter the display and not the image itself. ...

Æóðíàë ÏÎÂÅÐÕÍÎÑÒÜ ïóáëèêóåò îðèãèíàëüíûå ñòàòüè è îáçîðû ïî íàèáîëåå àêòóàëüíûì ïðîáëåìàì èçó÷åíèÿ ïîâåðõíîñòíûõ ÿâëåíèé. ... Ðåäàêöèÿ æóðíàëà 'Ïîâåðõíîñòü. ... Àíãëîÿçû÷íàÿ âåðñèÿ æóðíàëà Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques âûõîäèò 6 ðàç â ãîä . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

UFO Forum Message . ... Moon Landing Not Fake.. ... Personaly, I have no idea whether the moon landing was fake or not, but i can say that these are very bad and faulty points about the subject. Here is what was posted and my replies to these points. ... The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...