... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

Professor Yurij Shokin, born 1943, has been many years with the Computer Center and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (during the directorship of Academician N N Yanenko ) in Novosibirsk's scientific campus Akademgorodok and was director of the computer centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, in Krasnoyarsk. ... He is an affiliate member of IFIP WG 2.5 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Russian Academy of Sciences . Siberian Division . ...