... December 3, 1999 . Southern Mars . Credit: MOLA Science Team , NASA . Explanation: This topographical map of the southern hemisphere of Mars was generated using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Flying on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, MOLA has bounced a laser beam off the Martian surface over 200,000,000 times producing a wealth of detailed elevation measurements. ... Tomorrow's picture: From Mars . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Credit: MOLA Science Team , NASA Explanation: This topographical map of the southern hemisphere of Mars was generated using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). ... NASA's Mars Polar Lander spacecraft is scheduled to embark on an investigation of the role of water in the climate history of the Red Planet. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - mars polar lander - south pole . Publications with words: Mars - mars polar lander - south pole . ... South Pole Lunar Eclipse . ...

Lidar experiment cover story . ... Delta-2 launching vehicle delivered on a flight trajectory to the Mars the Polar Lander spacecraft. ... The main scientific goals are: Martian surface research, especially its light fractures and atmosphere research. ... The atmospheric sounding instrument aboard Mars Polar Lander is the LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, developed by team of Space Research Institute, RAS. The LIDAR system is a laser sounder located on the Mars Polar Lander deck. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

Lunar Orbiter 2 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2006 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 30, 2006 00:31 UT . Last updated: December 31, 2006 00:00 UT . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Australia?s 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun . ... A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably the most awesome sight in all of nature. Day is suddenly replaced with an eerie twilight and the Sun?s brilliant disk is blocked by the dark Moon. ... This incredible spectacle is visible once every year or two when the Moon?s small dark umbral shadow races across our planet?s surface. The ensuing path of totality is typically about 150 kilometers wide but can stretch halfway around the globe. ...

... S. G. Pugacheva. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, 13 Universitetsky pr., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universitetskii pr. ... S. G. Pugacheva and V. V. Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, 13 Universitetsky pr., ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE Summary: 21 December 1995 н 17 January 1996 Instrument: Nominal operation Acquisition: 12 successful (8 ACQ/BIN and 4 ACQ/PEAK); 0 failures Pointing: 64% within 1 arcsec Science ... Polarimetry, HDFнparallel Earthshine) Publications and Communications: HST Data Handbook Other: IS Reviews, Cycle 6 Phase II GO support TIPS : 18 January 1996 FOS Koratkar SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE Description of ...

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2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

... Eugene A. Cernan (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7. On his second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. ... Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

FOURTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES ELEVENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE . ... ISS Flight Engineer . ... In January - June 1993 he passed training under EC-14 program on the Mir Station as a commander of the backup (third) crew. ... From October 1998 to September 2000 at JSC (NASA) he passed training for a space flight by the Shuttle Orbiter under the ISS assembly program (flight 2A, 2A/2B). ... He is currently training as a flight engineer within the ISS-14 back-up crew for a space flight. ...

... Conference abstracts (PDF, 92k) . 09:30-10:30 . ... Translation flows on Z d covers of compact translation surfaces . ... Coffee . ... Volume entropy for surface groups . ... Ergodicity of infinite translation surfaces . ... Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces . ... Dynamics of SL (2, R ) on Prym eigenforms . ... Symbolic dynamics of a traffic map . ... Ergodic flows and some problems in analysis . ... Connected components of the strata of the moduli space of meromorphic differentials . ...

КАТАЛОГ ВОЗРАСТОВ, МЕТАЛЛИЧНОСТЕЙ, ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ ОРБИТ И ДРУГИХ ПАРАМЕТРОВ БЛИЗКИХ F-ЗВЕЗД . ... В. Марсаков, Ю. Шевелев . ... Подробнее о методах вычисления возрастов и элементов орбит звезд см. в работах Марсаков & Шевелев (1993) и Марсаков & Шевелев (1994). ... A & A, 22, 255 // Первая цитата в статье . ... Первая цитата в статье . ... Марсаков В.А. & Шевелев Ю.Г. 1993, АЖ, 70,1218 // Первая цитата в статье . Марсков В.А. & Шевелев Ю.Г. 1994, АЖ, 71, 368 // Первая цитата в статье . ...

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