M iranda ("mi RAN duh") is the eleventh of Uranus 's known satellites. Miranda is the innermost of Uranus' large moons. orbit : 129,850 km from Uranus diameter : 472 km mass : 6.3e19 kg M iranda is a daughter of the magician Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest . ... V oyager 2 was forced to fly close to Uranus in order to get the boost it needed to go on to Neptune and due to the orientation of the whole system at almost right angles to the ecliptic only Miranda was approached closely. ...

... NGC 7789: Galactic Star Cluster . ... Activity on our parent star continues to increase as the sun approaches a maximum in its 11-year solar cycle, expected in the year 2000. ... M80: A Dense Globular Cluster . ... Four Faces of Mars . ... On July 4th, 1997 - using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and airbags - the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft successfully came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. ... What's going on near the center of globular cluster NGC 6934? ...

Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

... 2008 August 17 . Io's Surface: Under Construction . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... Io's surface is constantly under construction . This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System's most volcanically active body -- its bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. ... The notable absence of impact craters suggests that the entire surface is covered with new volcanic deposits much more rapidly than craters are created. ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...

... News Research . ... Expert in the characterisation of magnetic activity and the coronae of slowly rotating (solar-type) and planet-hosting stars. ... Characterising the spectra of M dwarfs in the optical and NIR and studying the effects of strong magnetic fields. ... Experienced in modelling the coronae of planet-hosting cool stars and currently mapping magnetic fields in young pre-main sequence stars using HARPS spectropolarimetric data. ... Space Girls Space Women - Gaitee . Science Fuse . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Distribution of the speed w of ejecta (bold curve) relative to a platform moving with a horizontal speed of 1650 m/s and at an altitude h=30 km above the lunar surface. The assumed distribution of the ejection speeds at the surface is a power law with a low cutoff value of 100 m/s and an exponent of 1.2. ... The same conclusion holds for the speed distribution of particles near the surface. ...

... One of the widely used models of neural network is the multi-layered perceptron [6]. The model network has layers of input and output elements called neurons. ... An input vector is put on the input layer, passes through the hidden layers, and arrives at the output layer. The corresponding output vector is determined by calculation of the neuron activity level for each layer using already known values of neuron activity of the previous layers. ... Training was an iterative process. ...

... July 8, 1999 . Eruptive Prominence . Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA , NASA . Explanation: Activity on our parent star continues to increase as the sun approaches a maximum in its 11-year solar cycle , expected in the year 2000. ... Earth dwellers fortunate enough to be well located in Europe , the Middle East , Asia may be able to view for themselves activity above the solar limb during the upcoming August solar eclipse - the last total eclipse of the second millennium . ...

Definitions of Magnitudes and Surface Brightness 1 The magnitude system 1.1 Apparent magnitude Astronomers are stuck with the antiquated old system of magnitudes and so a clear explanation of what this system is and how it relates to more sensible units is important. ... 1.2 Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is a logarithmic luminosity scale. ... One usually goes by the round about process of referring to the absolute magnitude of the sun. ... Magnitudes and surface brightness 6/6 ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... Certain classical problems of one-dimensional dynamics, of dynamics on surfaces, of billiards in polygons, of surface foliations, can be solved using the recent knowledge about the moduli spaces. ... The conference is intended to put into contact experts in different aspects of the area (dynamics in moduli spaces, surface dynamics, surface foliations, horocyclic flow, symbolic dynamics, billiards in polygons), which, hopefully, would enrich everybody. ... Download conference poster (PDF, 549k) . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Mounting of MPAC & SEED panels on the external surface of the Service module during extravehicular activity, obtaining video and photographic information on the state of the panels. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Moscow, Russia . ... March-October 2000 . ... Gusev A.S. Multicolor CCD Photometry of Six Lenticular and Spiral Galaxies. ... Gusev A.S., Park M.-G. Structure and stellar population of ringed barred galaxy NGC 2336 // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, V.410, P.117-129. ... Gusev A.S. Photometric Properties of Bars in Galaxies // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.579-591. ... Gusev A.S. BVRI CCD Photometry of Pecular Galaxies NGC 5605 and NGC 5665 // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.569-578. ...

Comet Lovejoy skimmed across the Sun's edge about 87,000 miles (140,000 kilometers) above the surface late December 15, 2011, furiously vaporizing as it approached the stellar surface and later emerged from the other side. It is the brightest sungrazing comet that SOHO and SDO have ever seen, with a nucleus about twice as wide as a football field. On approach, the comet's tail waggled as it interacted with the magnetic field of the Sun's atmosphere. ... SDO ...

... 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. ...

Geomagnetic storms and substorms are a natural hazard similar to hurricanes, floods etc. ... Solar and geomagnetic activity also probably influences the Earth's climate and human health. ... Under southward directed IMF the Earth's magnetosphere is open to input from the solar wind flow. ... Since practical importance of solar wind measurements was recognized, a number of approaches was developed for prediction of the geomagnetic activity basing on the solar wind data. ...

... Molecular beam epitaxy . Surface analysis . ... Molecular beam epitaxy and fundamental studies of semiconductor heterostructures (with quantum wells, quantum dots and superlattices) based on: . narrow gap III-V compounds for optoelectronic and electronic applications; . wide gap II-VI compounds, as well as ZnO, for visible range and UV optoelectronics and basic studies in the field of spintronics; . ...

... There are several explanations for these X--ray quiet PMS stars. To examine the explanations, it is proper to divide the PMS stars into three groups: those bluer than R - I = 0.7, those redder than the X--ray sources (R - I > 1.25) and those with colors similar to the X--ray sources. ... A total of 26 of the non--X--ray detected PMS candidates had spectra taken. ... Between V=14 and V=16, I find 25 stars which are X--ray sources and estimate 19 non--X--ray PMS stars. ...

Do we need various assumptions to get a good FCN? A new multiple layer spectral method Cheng-li HuangMian Zhang Shanghai Astron. ... No FCN ! ... FCN,FCN,FCN.. Multiple layer spectral method (MLSM) + Linear Operator Method (LOM) Finite Element Method (FEM) · · Traditional approach solves one order ellipsoid only. ... Main Idea of FEM Boundary Surface could be described as: Let's consider how to solve the dynamic equation: Traditional Approach: Equivalent Spherical Domain . ...