Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Question:What do you need to protect an expensive state-of-the-art robotic vehicle that is far from human reach and about to crash at high speed on a rocky alien surface?Answer:Retrograde rockets, parachutes, airbags, and an aeroshell.These are found in the makeup of a lander module that was used to bring rovers Spirit and Opportunity described by the missionтАЩs director as тАЬrobotic field geologistsтАЭ safely to the Martian surface in 2004. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Latest Articles from "Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection" for scholars . ... Тема: Latest Articles from "Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection" for scholars . ... Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection . Dear scholars, . We take great pleasure in listing the latest articles of " Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection " (GEP, ISSN Online: 2327-4344) here. ... Latest Articles in GEP . ... MAO NASU . ...

Lunar Libration . Articles | ... Actually, a slight rocking motion, called libration,* makes about 59% of the Moon's surface visible from our planet Earth -- though only 50% at any one time. ... Add to that, the approximate 1.5 degree tilt of the Moon's equator to the ecliptic, and you have the inclination of the Moon's equator to the plane of its orbit around Earth at some 6.5 degrees (5 + 1.5 = 6.5). ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... Included in this list are only the papers published in editions that seem easily accessible for users outside Russia. ... In PDF format . ... A.T. Karpachev, G.F. Deminova and S.A. Pulinets. ... A.T. Karpachev. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.6, June 1996, pp.790-795. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.6, June 1996, pp.787-789. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.1, August, 1995, pp.54-59. ...

... Yu.A.Shokin Accurate positions of variable stars in the western part of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar (published in IBVS (No.5047, 14 March 2001) and SAI Proceedings) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij The list of 2821 Venus positions (VINITI depository Oct 08 2007, N 956 B2007) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij, E.N. Fedosseev The experience in processing long series of photographic observations of planetary positions (VINITI depository Apr 01 2008, N 274 B2007) . ...

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): . ...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 2003 . ... I recently read an article that I found initially disturbing, but after reading the information on this site regarding the sun, I feel much more calm. ... A few people have requested more information about the temperature of the sun. The temperature at the center of the sun is about 16 million degrees Kelvin (27 million degrees Fahrenheit), as stated in the article. ...

... К вопросу возможной модификации двигателя Шкадова и ее перспективах для решения некоторых задач SETI . ... А.Л.Зайцев . ... КОНЕЦ СОЦИУМА И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . Л.М.Гиндилис . ... ОБОСНОВАНИЕ METI . ... Борис Николаевич Пановкин о познаваемости мира и о возможности связи с внеземными цивилизациями (к 80-летию со дня рождения) . ... Alexander Zaitsev . ... КНИГА ОБ ЭВОЛЮЦИИ И ВНЕЗЕМНЫХ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯХ (Рецензия на книгу А.Д.Панова Универсальная эволюция и проблема поиска внеземного разума (SETI) . ...

... 2 декабря 2010 (Denisenko, Smirnov) 1RXS J184542.4+483134: a New Cataclysmic Variable with Short-Period Photometric Variations . 30 ноября 1999 (Denisenko) New Evidence in the Case of the Lost Variables EV and EW Cep . 17 января 2010 (Kryachko, Samokhvalov, et al) New Variable Stars in Cygnus . 21 июня 2009 (Kryachko, Samokhvalov, et al) New Variable Stars in the Field of GRB 080605 . ... 20 ноября 2008 (Kryachko, Samokhvalov, et al) New Variable Stars in Ophiuchus . ...

... Many scientific institutions maintain bibliographies of articles published by their scientists and monitor references made to these publications; these figures are often used to evaluate the effectiveness of the institution. ... a) Identification of papers that are based, at least partly, on new data Publications based on observations can be subdivided into two groups: those presenting new, previously unreported data, and those that make use of already published data. ... Published by . ...

... March 21, 1997 . Io's Surface: Under Construction . Credit: The 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. ...

StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

... 2014: . Suppression of cooling by strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars . ... 69, 439, 2014. Evidence of supercritical accretion in SS433 . ... We discovered a flat portion (white noise) in the power spectrum of SS433 due to an abrupt increase of the disk thickness in the supercritical region. ... Both the hard X-ray radiation and the visual light are seen reflected from the walls of the funnel that forms in the wind of the supercritical disk of SS433. ... Archive . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... NORMAN E. THAGARD (M.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . PERSONAL DATA: Born July 3, 1943, in Marianna, Florida, but considers Jacksonville, Florida, to be his hometown. ... Dr. Thagard first flew on the crew of STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 8, 1983. ... Dr. Thagard then flew on STS 51-B, the Spacelab-3 science mission, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 29, 1985, aboard the Challenger. ...

... Some researchers think that increased pollution decreases rainfall by dispersing the same amount of water over more seeds, preventing them from growing large enough to fall as rain. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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Umbriel . Uranus II . Umbriel [UM-bree-ul] is the darkest satellite of Uranus. It is about the same size as Ariel and has about the same density. The surface appears to be old with large craters and does not change much from one location to another. Near the top is a puzzling bright ring called the fluorescent cheerio . ... Dark regions are represented as red and bright regions are represented as blue. The two white regions are bright ejecta from two fresh craters. ...