... Alien Life . ... During a mission planned to last a Martian year (nearly two of our years) after landing , Curiosity will use its instruments to investigate whether this area of Mars has ever enjoyed conditions suitable for life , especially the presence of liquid water.Lower layers of Aeolis Mons could reveal there was once a lake within Gale Crater long ago.But this is just the beginning of what ... Methane Not Detected by Curiosity Rover Does Not Rule Out Life on Mars . ... Astronotes...

For a complete list of mail variables, see the manual page for the mail(1) command. Variable Default Action . ... PAGER more the pager used to paginate output when a message is longer than the screen. sign= signature defines the "signature" inserted in the mail message by the ~a command. Sign= signature defines the "signature" inserted in the mail message by the ~A command. topline= number 5 the number of lines of the top of each message to print with the ~t command. ...

First, we'll set up values for Mail :: Bulkmail # #################### define package Mail :: Bulkmail # server _class stores the server object that we're going to use. #uncomment the DummyServer line and comment out the Server line for debugging server _class = Mail :: Bulkmail :: Server # server _class = Mail :: Bulkmail :: DummyServer #log our errors ERRFILE = / Mail::Bulkmail might as well use it. ...

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... Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K. љ This paper describes how Tcl and the Tk toolkit have been extended to send and receive Adam inter-task messages, and how it has been used to build graphically-oriented user interfaces for various data reduction tasks. ... The user interface uses the message system to control the task. ... adam_init . ... The user interface sends messages to the relay task using the Adam message system, which forwards them to the Adam tasks. ...

... Suppose that a NS having a rotational magnetic   luminosity forms a binary system (with semi-major axis a ) with a normal star losing matter in the form of stellar wind (with a loss rate ). ... This means that while deriving the formula for a cavern in the general case, we must take into account the proximity of the normal star. ... It follows from the symmetry considerations that at the anterior point of the cavern (i.e. the point closest to the normal star), . ... If , the cavern is closed. ...

... While Sfit accepts input from "stdio", it is more natural to save/edit commands in a file (eg "solve_input.sfit") and run the code simply by entering > Sfit solve_input.sfit [linelist] . ... The model grid (3.4MB) produced by Example 1 and a selection of input spectra ( f008 f036 f068 f304 f354 ), together with SFIT output files are also given in this folder . ... The model grid (2.8MB) produced by Example 3 and an input spectrum together with SFIT output files are also given in this folder . ...

LEADER INSTRUCTIONS Translating an Alien Message by Dennis Schatz (Pacific Science Center) An Activity for the Whole Family from Project ASTRO © 2003, Project ASTROTM, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., ... After gaining some experience with different kinds of simpler messages in Decoding Radio Messages from Space, families tr y their hand at decoding a somewhat more complex radio message received from an imaginar y alien civilization around another star. ...

... If you could send a message to an alien civilization, what would you say? ... Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon . ... In fact, from its vantage point 150 million kilometers sunward of planet Earth, SOHO's cameras can always monitor the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. ... Green and Black Auroras Over Norway . ... Animation of Asteroids Passing Near Earth . ... Moonquakes Surprisingly Common . ... Doomed Star Eta Carinae . ... Northern Spring on Mars . ... Still in northern.. ...

... StelTextureBackend Class Reference . Base class for texture implementations. ... Definition at line 95 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 101 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 157 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 200 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 185 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 130 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 143 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ...

The initial orbital data are distributed in the F1 format, which contains orbital elements as a the state vector (the spacecraft position and velocity vector) in the inertial frame (Standard reference of the Earths Equator and Equinox J2000). ... The Format number . 0001 . The Message number . ... 00001 . ... 001451.596 . ... 008276.384 . ... 000000.000 . ... The F1 format for this data looks as follows: . INT/ITZ/01/0001/01/00001/ . ... 001451.596/-008276.384/+000000.000/ . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... What Color is Mars? ... Hoagland's Credentials . ... There have been all sorts of silliness happening from the usual groups, including claims that the Beagle II failed because the U.S. shot it down, aliens on Mars shot it down, aliens on Mars are known by NASA, NASA is covering up alien artifacts, NASA is causing bad weather on Earth, NASA is the devil, etc. Leading the way with this nonsense is none other than Richard C. Hoagland. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Martian Mission . Cosmonauts . ... The orbital flight of Vostok spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut comrade GAGARIN continues. 9 hours 52 minutes . According to data received from onboard Vostok spacecraft at 9 hours 52 minutes, Moscow Time, cosmonaut pilot major Gagarin flying over South America sent the following message: "The mission progresses smoothly, I feel well". 10 hours 15 minutes . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...