Next: Why Armagh? Up: Phenology Garden Previous: Background Contents . ... In the mid-twentieth century, a number of phenological gardens were set up in Europe with the intention of employing observations of certain common species of plants as indicators of climate change. ... Wexford; and the Botanic Gardens, Dublin. ... Table: Species supplied by the IPG Central Coordinating Laboratory in March 2004, and the various Native Species included in the Phenology Garden. ... Salix aurita . Willow . ...

... In this final issue of the year, we consider the Moon's alien surface features, (so different from those we're used to on Earth) and review the golden age of lunar exploration. ... From 1959 (when the Luna 1 probe made the first flyby of the Moon) until 1976 (when Luna 24 returned the last lunar sample to Earth), 32 unmanned probes and 9 manned missions to the Moon or near-Moon space were successfully carried out. ... Luna 1 . ... First flyby of Moon . ... Flyby; first photographs of Moon's farside ...

... Moon . ... John Young working by the Lunar Roving Vehicle (Image credit: NASA) . ... All American pilot astronauts, the primary crew were: John Watts Young, mission commander; Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, as Command Module pilot; Charles Moss Duke Jr, as Lunar Module pilot. ... Duke again fulfilled the role of lunar module backup pilot for the Apollo 17 mission. ... Bar one, the 11 day Apollo 16 space mission was the final mission to land men on the Moon but the first to land in the lunar highlands....

... Stanley G. Love (Ph.D.)б  . NASA Astronaut . ... Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (1995);б  NOVA Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1998);б  Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Group Achievement Award (Expedition 6 Spacewalk Team , 2003);б  NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award (ISS Testbed for Analog Research Team (2013); Orbital Space Plane Team (2004);б  United States Antarctica Service Medal (2006);б  Orion Phase 2 Source Evaluation Team (2007);б  ...

C S I R O A S T R O N O M Y A N D S PA C E S C I E N C E www.csiro.au ATNF News Issue No. 74, April 2013 I S S N 1 3 2 3 - 6 3 26 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science -- Under taking world- leading astronomical research and operating the Australia Telescope National Facility. Editorial Welcome to the Apr il 2013 edit ion of ATNF News. We star t this issue by welcoming Lew is Ball, the newly appointed Chief of C SIRO Astronomy and Space Sc ience and ATNF Direc tor, who returns to C SIRO follow ing two and a

... 1460280586-1815617924-1232370933=:7323 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Hi friends. ... Not only have all stations actually participated, with fringes to all 5 continents, but the demo itself has generated an enormous amount of interest. ... Note that we had several firsts. First continuous round-the-clock e-VLBI, first e-VLBI session combining the EVN with Kashima and Westford, first e-VLBI with Urumqi, first e-VLBI with 17 stations (albeit not simultaneously). ...