... 2010 August 30 . Comanche Outcrop on Mars Indicates Hospitable Past . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Could life once have survived on Mars? ... Although evidence from the martian rovers indicates that long ago Mars might once have had liquid water on its surface, that water might also have been too acidic for familiar life forms to thrive. ... About APOD | ...

... Chaos? ... One often looks toward physical systems to find chaos, but it also exhibits itself in biology. ... where r is the so-called driving parameter. ... Start with a fixed value of the driving parameter, r , and an initial value of x 0 . ... As one continues to increase the driving parameter, x n goes through bifurcations of period eight, then sixteen, then chaos! When the value of the driving parameter r equals 3.57, x n neither converges or oscillates its value becomes completely random. ...

... 2014 Irkutsk-Listvyanka, Russia G r o u p language English Theoretical round General note. ... Footstep of babr. ... Draw in real scale a picture of image of the sunspot "footstep of babr" (see picture and condition of the previous problem) obtained in the focal plane of the LSVT. ... Orion's Belt. ... Estimate at what distance from the Babr the Penguin was, if the shining of the "fourth star of Orion's Belt" approximately corresponds to that of the three others in the picture. ... ISS near Zenith. ...

VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA . The winter started early here with severe snow storms in November and December. ... But this winter we had so many storms, food had to be air-lifted by the Air Force, to feed farm animals in the countryside. The weather began to get much better in January. Now it is cool and sunny. ... New Mexico is usually very dry, . ... This altitude, coupled with the dry sunny climate, results in very cold nights and cool days in the winter. ...

... During the course of this report many key points have come to light, in particular the wastefulness of overlighting. ... The idea that more lighting means better lighting is not only wasting money, but also the lives of animals, such as the 50,000 birds that died over 2 nights at Warner Robins Air Force Base. ... There is also a wide range of different bulbs that can be used, all cheaper and more efficient than the kind everyone is used to: incandescent bulbs. ...

A large population of deer thrive on the land surrounding the observatory. The picture was taken on a Saturday morning in mid-October,1996. It was the next to last day of archery hunting season. This animal walked up behind our roll roof building where I had been waiting for about half an hour. ... Just beyond this nice web outside the main building's front door, is the solar observation equipment and beyond that, one of the sanctuary's three ponds . ... Back to Moore Observatory Homepage ...

. In recent years, Brian May has found a comfortable mixture of music, astronomy, stereography, and animal welfare activism тАФ all of which were childhood passions. Brian May Archive

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