... Layered Hills on Mars . ... 24.12.2003 . ... Credit: MSSS , JPL , NASA Explanation: Why are some hills on Mars so layered? ... Clearly, dark windblown sand surrounds outcropping of light sedimentary rock across the floor of crater Arabia Terra . ... Blown sand possibly itself eroded once-larger mesas into the layered hills. ... December 2003 . ... Publications with keywords: Mars . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . A Path Into Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... 2003 December 24 . Layered Hills on Mars . Credit: MSSS , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Why are some hills on Mars so layered? ... Clearly, dark windblown sand surrounds outcropping of light sedimentary rock across the floor of crater Arabia Terra . ... Blown sand possibly itself eroded once-larger mesas into the layered hills. ... The above image , showing an area about 3 kilometers across, was taken in October by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting Mars . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 25, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment Here is possibly the only joke in all of astronomy. ... Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ... So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe! ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

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... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... September/October 2006 . ... Only two planets have orbits that carry them between Earth and the Sun, and Mercury?s occasional passages across the Sun?s face have punctuated critical times in the evolution of our knowledge of the Universe. ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

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In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

... For the first time I was in the Observatory (Crimea) . ... The University - my dream! ... 1995 October. ... Soros's fellowship for post-grads for the first time . ... 1998 April. ... I am included into the first list of ten prominent russian young scientists by the magazine "What is new in science and technology". ... Prize for young scientists of the Moscow State University. ... 2015 Short-listed for the national prize "For fidelity to science" as the best science popularizer (the 2nd at the end) ....

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... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

Permanent places of employment: CNRS - Section STIC-07, since October 2008 . Current research interests: tilings, substitutions, combinatorics, symbolic dynamics, quasicrystals . ... 2008 - 2010 CNRS - LAboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, Marseille . ... Fernique, /Combinatorial substitutions and sofic tilings/, submitted . ... O. Bodini, Th. ... Fernique, /Generation and recognition of digital planes using multi-dimensional continued fractions/, Pattern Recognition 42 (2009) . ...