... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . ... Moon's topography is shown based on LOLA laser altimeter data, white contour shows a permanently shadowed region and a white rhomb indicates LCROSS spacecraft impact location. ... Ultra deep survey of the sky in hard X-rays, performed by INTEGRAL observatory . INTEGRAL observatory has completed the first and the most sensitive survey of the sky in hard X-ray energy band. ...
... Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia . ... Title: SKIF-GRID supercomputing program: current activity and future plans . Speaker: Alexander Moskovsky, Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences . The SKIF-GRID supercomputing program is one of leading initiatives in the field of High-Performance Computing in Russia and Belarus. ... Collaboration include Russian and Belorussian partners, Program Systems Institute leads collaboration in Russia. ...
... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...