Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container which holds soil collected during the second moonwalk EVA. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -3.01, 23.42 . ... Instrument: Hasselblad Camera . ... Instrument Field of View (deg): 60 mm Focal Length . ... Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A . ... NASA Image ID number: AS12-H-49-7278 . ... Code 633, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA . ... Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . ...

... Vent tubes during assembly . Vent tubes with "frisbees" and springs . Vent tubes with the "frisbees" and springs removed (one spring is also shown) . Thermal sensors on the back of the mirror, overview . Thermal sensors on back of test sample. Frisbees are installed. Thermal sensors on the front of the mirror . Wiring for the thermal sensors . Thermal sensors, anemometer and exhaust fan locations. ... Heating the test sample. ... Test sample being cooled via fan #3. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The ionogram catalogue is divided into the data file and the key file. ... The station codes database consists of the data file and two key files. ... This database consists of the data file and the key file. ... The antenna DB consists of two interrelated databases. ... The data file contains the following information: antenna type, antenna name, antenna parameters names, measurement units, and ranges of parameters. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

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... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Building CASA . ... /ccm/CCM_Local/CCM_OCL/OclHelpers.h 2009-09-29 14:30:42.000000000 +0100 @@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ OCL_Collection T excluding( const T object ) const { OCL_Collection T result; - const int s = size(); + const int s = vector T ::size(); for( int index=0; index s; index++ ) { - const T element = operator[](index); + ... Building CCMTools as required by CASA . ... Building . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...

... Credit: The Surveyor Project, NASA Explanation: "Safe!" In September 1967 ( during regular season play ), the Surveyor 5 lander actually slid several feet while making a successful soft landing on the Moon's Mare Tranquillitatis. Equipped with television cameras and soil sampling experiments, the US Surveyor spacecraft were intended to determine if the lunar surface at chosen locations was safe for the planned Apollo landings . ... Publications with keywords: Surveyor - spacecraft - Moon . ...

Next: Results & Discussion Up: Coronal Hole Diagnostics out Previous: Introduction . ... The dates of the observations discussed here, their locations, pointing, slit sizes and exposure times are given in BTDW. ... Line fits are given by the dotted line. ... An estimation of the errors in the derived parameters was obtained using the GA-derived parameters as an input for a ``classical'' IDL-CURVEFIT procedure (Peter, 1999; Peter & Judge, 1999). ...

... MANNED SPACE FLIGHT LABORATORY LOCATION . The Manned Space Flight Center location study is completed. James E. Webb, Administrator of NASA, announced today the completion of the study to determine the location of the agency's new $60,000,000 Manned Space Flight Laboratory. The facility was authorized by Congress for initiation in the current Fiscal Year. The laboratory will be located in Houston, Texas on 1,000 acres of land to be made available to the government by Rice University. ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

Date: Night of 2015-07-16 Location: Moore Observatory Camera: Sony Alpha 7s Observer: John Kielkopf Date/Time Original : 2015:07:16 23:55:48 Image Width : 4288 Image Height : 2848 Bits Per Sample : 12 Exposure Time : 1 F Number : 1.8 ISO : 12800 Lens Info : 55mm f/1.8 Lens Model : FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Aperture : 1.8 Field Of View : 36.2 deg Focal Length : 55.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 55.0 mm)

Mercury Summer 2011 Table of Contents . Plumes spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" (fissures) near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Courtesy NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Evidence Indicates Icy Saturn Moon Hiding Salt . ... The plumes shooting water vapor and tiny grains of ice into space were originally discovered emanating from Enceladus by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005. ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

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