... 2014 January 29 . Jelly Donut Shaped Rock Appears on Mars . Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What if a rock that looked like a jelly donut suddenly appeared on Mars? ... Even so, the rock's unusual light tones surrounding a red interior created interest in its composition -- as well as causing it to be nicknamed Jelly Donut . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

. To create a file with the cat command: cat > memo remember to make appointment at opticians get cost of scheduled flight to Athens Ctrl-d . This creates a file called memo in the current directory containing two lines of text. To create a file with the echo command: echo use an editor for large files > tips . This creates a file called tips in the current directory containing a single line of text.

Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Предыдущий выпуск (N335) . ... Обсудить на форуме Scientific.RU . ... Подписка на рассылку обзоров на Subscribe.Ru . Обзоры препринтов astro-ph . ... Собственно обзоры препринтов. ... Ранее обзоры также были на Астронете и на Scientific.Ru . ... АНКи доступны на Астронете , а с 2006 по 2008 г. также на сайте Элементы.Ру . ... Ранее они также размещались на сайте Астронет и в архиве моих обозрений (кодировка KOI8) на сайте Scientific.Ru . ...

... Every morning, the LRPG determines if the previous night's batch-LRP was successful and examines any differences between the last released LRP and the current LRP. ... Was the nightly LRP run successful? ... check that an "AUTO" LRP was created for the most recently run nightly batch-LRP process. ... Daily working LRP names are alphabetically sequenced (A, B, C, ... under normal circumstances, often only A will get created and later released). ... For each run, two files are generally created. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 4.01.1996 . ... Pictured above is the IC 2220 - the Toby Jug Nebula - a reflection nebula surrounding a normal red giant star. Reflection nebulae shine by light reflected from the central star(s). This nebula appears to have been created from the current phase of mass-loss from the central star. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: nebula . ... MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula . ... Scorpius in Red and Blue . ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

Next: Management Up: State Previous: Rest Frequency Index . ... Internally these are converted into a simple boolean mask for each channel of the abscissa. ... Example : # Select channel range for baselining ASAP>scans.set_unit('channel') ASAP>msk = scans.create_mask([100,400],[600,800]) # Select velocity range for fitting ASAP>scans.set_unit('km/s') ASAP>msk = scans.create_mask([-30,-10]) . ... Example : ASAP>scans.set_unit('channel') ASAP>msk = scans.create_mask([0,100],[900-1023], invert=True) . ...

The left mouse button controls the creation and manipulation of region markers or cursors. ... Text When a marker type of selected, new markers of that type can be created using the left mouse button. The current default marker type is displayed below the menu. ... Set Default Marker Name (and Color) . ... Reset the fix parameter state of currently existing markers to match the global state set by the -fix command switch or by the Edit Global Fix Params For New Markers option in the Markers menu. ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

. Project Identification: . Source Name: . Observation Date: . (yyyy/mm/dd) . Start Date: . End Date: . Source Position: . RA (J2000): . h m s . Dec (J2000): . o ' '' . Search box in arcminutes: . +/- (Default 10 arcminutes meaningful . only when both ra dec are specified) .

... This page deals with the operational issue of how to fill the calibration memory properly, and with the interplay of createAB and that memory. The calibration memory is the list of all calibration product files currently available for association. ... The dynamic calibrations are created by the pipeline from raw files and are stored in $DFO_CAL_DIR/<date>. ... DFO_CAL_DIR/VCAL is the pool of virtual calibrations. ... The calibration memory is managed by DFOS in the following way: . ...

... Does the time it takes different methods to create all the elements coincide with the universeт??s accepted age? ... Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Different kinds of stars create elements at different rates, all of which are consistent with the age of the universe. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Registration is FREE and takes only a few seconds to complete. If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... A number of parameters appear in the parameter area which correspond to the status of the package when the interface is created. These parameters can be changed by typing the new values in the field, or reading them from a previously saved session table. The option in the menu may be used to read a session file, as indicated in Figure reffig:xsave. The name of the currently loaded session is indicated in the first text field Session at the top of the parameter area in the Main window. ...

... JavaScript 1.1: added current, next, and previous properties. ... To change a window's current URL without generating a history entry, you can use the Location.replace method. ... For example, if the history list contains three named entries, these entries are reflected as history[0] , history[1] , and history[2] . ... back . ... onClick="history.go('home.netscape.com')"> The following button navigates to the URL that is three entries backward in the history list: <P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Go" ...

Light scattering codes: . SVM for homogeneous spheroids (updating) . SVM for core-mantle spheroids (updating) . SVM for multi-layered spheroids (formulae) . Quasi-TMM for axisymmetric homogeneous particles (ready) . Quasi-TMM for axisymmetric multi-layered particles (testing) . Quasi-static approximation for multi-layered ellipsoids (testing) . S-approximation for homogeneous spheres (testing) . ... Basic Monte-Carlo code of S.Wolf for 3D case (testing) . ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... SSAU History . ... On June 11 Heinz Palkovski, Director of Institute of Metallurgy from Germany conducted a lecture on Preparation, testing and use of sandwich materials . ... The very same material is a sandwich, where the base and the filler arranged in layers of a certain thickness. ... Professor Heinz Palkovski is currently engaged in research of sandwich materials and his lecture was devoted to this theme. ... Tags: heinz palkovski lecture sandwich materials...

. Photos . This is an old homepage of Sergey Koposov with some old photos. My current homepage is here . The first version of that page was created approximately in november 2002. Sergey Koposov , 2002-2015 . Last change: 30.12.15.

Since XmCCD uses Motif, the libraries and include files must be available. ... By default it will create a directory xmccd-#.# with the command tar -xvzf xmccd-#.#.tar Set your current working directory to xmccd-#.# cd xmccd-#.# ... For "ls -l" you should see something like this -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 281883 Mar 10 01:08 xmccd Move xmccd to a directory in your search path such as /usr/local/bin mv xmccd /usr/local/bin xmccd will use ds9 for image display if it is present. ...