... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 14, 1996 . Galileo Explores Europa . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Details of the crazed cracks criss-crossing Europa's frozen surface are apparent in this mosaic of the Galileo spacecraft's latest images of Jupiter's ice-covered moon. ... Tomorrow's picture: Galileo Views Eruption on Io . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 14.08.1996 . ... Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Details of the crazed cracks criss-crossing Europa's frozen surface are apparent in this mosaic of the Galileo spacecraft's latest images of Jupiter's ice-covered moon. ... One theory suggests that "dirty geysers" erupting along the cracks deposited darker material followed by a flow of cleaner water ice which produced the stripe. ... August . ... August 1996 . ... 1995 1996 . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

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... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

... Stuart Allen Roosa (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (Deceased) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Society of Experimental Test Pilots, New York Safari Club, Board of Directors, People-to-People Sports Committee, Hunting Hall of Fame, Circumnavigators Club, Explorers Club, Confederate Air Force, Shikar-Safari-Club, Gulfport Yacht Club. ... With him on man's third lunar landing mission were Alan B. Shepard (spacecraft commander) and Edgar D. Mitchell (lunar module pilot). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | No Comments While you may have plans afoot to adorn a certain coniferous sapling of verdant hue with all things bright, shiny, and sparkling in the next few weeks, letтАЩs for a [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on August 5, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, UO, Eugene, Oregon , October 29, 2012 . Physics Slam, UO, Eugene, Oregon , March 22, 2011 . University of New Mexico , October 1, 2009 . Columbia Hall, UO, Eugene, Oregon , September 12, 2008 . ... Eugene Rotary, Eugene, Oregon , February 5, 2008 . ... University of Oregon , May 19, 2005 . ... Particles, Energy, and Cosmology , Jim Brau . ... Annual Star Party - Public Lecture . ... Public Lecture Celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005, . ...

This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Issued 2003 December 17th . Mars Dust storms, lecture, TV, Bargain telescope . ... Another aurora? ... Issued 2003 September 30th . ... Issued 2003 September 25th . ... Issued 2003 September 21st . ... Issued 2003 September 14th . ... Issued 2003 September 12th . ... Issued 2003 September 11th . ... Issued 2003 September 10th . ... Issued 2003 September 9th . ... Issued 2003 August 29th . ... Aurora? ...

... Conference abstracts (PDF, 92k) . 09:30-10:30 . ... Translation flows on Z d covers of compact translation surfaces . ... Coffee . ... Volume entropy for surface groups . ... Ergodicity of infinite translation surfaces . ... Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces . ... Dynamics of SL (2, R ) on Prym eigenforms . ... Symbolic dynamics of a traffic map . ... Ergodic flows and some problems in analysis . ... Connected components of the strata of the moduli space of meromorphic differentials . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... August . ... August, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . August : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: August 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for August, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...