You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

... Sunlight Earth . ... Life as we know it needs liquid water, and Earth is the only planet to have it: without the Sun, Earth would be an icy rock in space. ... As the ground is heated by sunlight, it begins to radiate, but being too cool to radiate even a dull red, its radiation is in the infra-red range. ... Clouds in the atmosphere reflect some of the sunlight before it reaches the ground, reducing the heating of the ground. ... Air can flow, and thus carry its heat from one place to another. ...

Educator's Guide to Convection . ... It functions because heated fluids, due to their lower density, rise and cooled fluids fall. ... When it does, it becomes part of a convection cell. ... The tops of the clouds have a sort of cauliflower appearance as warm moist air rises through the center of the cloud. ... As the air falls along the exterior of the cloud, it returns to warmer low altitudes where it can be caught up in the rising column of air in the center of the cloud. ...