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... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across Burns Cliff along the inner wall of Endurance crater on Mars! The view from the perspective of Mars rover Opportunity is a color anaglyph - two different images are presented to the left and right eyes by color filters to produce the 3D effect. ... Opportunity spent the month of July on the road to Victoria crater. ... Mars Rover Races to Survive . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... We describe the construction of convolution kernels that allow one to generate (multiwavelength) images with a common PSF, thus preserving the colors of the astronomical sources. We generate convolution kernels for the cameras of Spitzer, Herschel Space Observatory, Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), ground-based optical telescopes (Moffat functions and sum of Gaussians), and Gaussian PSFs. ... ADS ] . ADS Citation Query . citations = 125 . ...

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... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

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Dark matter maps for a sample of 50 individual galaxy clusters (left), an average galaxy cluster (center), and those based on dark matter theory (right). ... The map based on predictions from CDM theory (right, middle) is a close match to the average galaxy cluster observed with the Subaru Telescope. NAOJ/ASIAA/School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham/Kavli IPMU/Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University ...

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... The extended project as the existing one aims to investigate, control and exploit the properties of interfaces between isostructural functional oxides for the realization of new nanosized electronic and optoelectronic devices. New participants will contribute to the characterization and understanding of physical properties of interfaces made of perovskite materials. In particular high frequency dynamical properties, fluctuation phenomena and dielectric spectrum will be carefully studied. ...

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