The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... A data set contains a science frame, all its associated raw calibration frames and the master calibration frames created by combining and processing the raw calibration frames. ... Either one creates a MIDAS catalogue which contains the names of all single calibration frames to be combined in to the master frame, or, in the case of pipe line reduction, one use the Association Table. ... The names of single calibration frames are however also available in the Association Table. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Highs and Lows of Earth . ... 25.09.2001 . ... Pictured above is the best digital elevation map yet created for our home planet , a map it took over ten years to make that incorporates data provided by many different countries around the world . The relief map is color coded with sea level shown in black, relatively low areas shown in green, higher areas shown in brown, and the highest areas shown in white. ... Publications with keywords: Earth . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 December 22 . Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma . ... Analemma s created from different latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. ... Pictured is such a total solar eclipse analemma or Tutulemma - a term coined by the photographers based on the Turkish word for eclipse. ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... ASAP contains flexible data selection. Data can be selected based on IF, beam, polarisation, scan number as well as values such as Tsys. ... Selection is based on a selector object. This object is created and various selection functions applied to it ( set_ifs , set_beams etc). The selection object then must be applied to a scantable using the set_selection function. ... The selection can then be reset and all spectra are visible. ... Select by source name. ... Select data based on Tsys. ...

Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Modules . ... Provides the ability to create extended authentication providers based on actual providers . ... The alias providers can then be referenced through the directives AuthBasicProvider or AuthDigestProvider in the same way as a base authentication provider. ... The example below creates two different ldap authentication provider aliases based on the ldap provider. ... server config . ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

seeing -- Create a simulated ground-based star image based on a model of atmospheric turbulence seeing output xdim ydim gamma fwhmx fwhmy . output = "" [image] . The name for the output image to be created. xdim = 512 [integer] . The X dimension for the output image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension dor the output image. gamma = 1.6666 [real] . ... For a discussion of the significance of this please see the discussion below and the references given. fwhmx = 5.0 [real] . ...

See also: Name-based Virtual Hosts Support . As the term IP-based indicates, the server must have a different IP address for each IP-based virtual host . ... There are two ways of configuring apache to support multiple hosts. ... For each installation, use the Listen directive in the configuration file to select which IP address (or virtual host) that daemon services. e.g. Listen www.smallco.com:80 It is recommended that you use an IP address instead of a hostname (see DNS caveats ). ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

... Unlike clients such as Shout and IceDJ this permits the broadcast of live audio, rather than prerecorded mp3's. LiveIce was developed after the appearance of IceCast to provide the Real Time streaming functionality which makes it a viable solution for broadcasting. It is based on the guts of 2 of my previous works - Mp3Serv, the first mp3 broadcasting system & Mp3Mixer, a toy which allows the user to 'Mix' with mp3 streams. ... LiveIce XMMS sourcecode is available here . ...

... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Revised Acknowledgement for Publications Based on ESO Data . ... Science Archive Facility . ... When findings based on ESO data are published, acknowledgement is requested through a specific statement, to be found here . ... Please add this acknowledgement to your future papers which are based on ESO data, regardless of whether these are new observations using proprietary data or data obtained from the ESO Science Archive . ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

Modern requirements stipulated for the Networking Technologies . Brief Review of the problems under solution. ... Distributed Collapsed Back Bone Technology Advantages and shortcomings of different approaches. Switches against routers. ... Position at the IS market. Position of the modern high-speed technologies. ... Review of switching technology. Review of the switch market.Classification of switches. ... Big corporate networks implementing switching and routing technologies. ...

... The column VER FLAG contains the source ag setting. ... EMSRLI ) then else call error( badInput , input PPS file is not the EPIC M-L detect list ) return endif *** make a copy of the input file with prefix flag write (outname,'(a,a)') flag _ ,trim(stringParameter( set )) call copyDataset(stringParameter( set ),outname) *** pointer to file and table outfile = dataSet(outname,MODIFY) outtab = table(outfile, SRCLIST ) *** create new columns ind_sol = addColumn( ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Building CASA . ... Introduction to SCons . I have designed a prototype implementation of a build system for CASA based on the SCons tool. ... This system is experimental and not the official way of building CASA. ... The main version of the code for this build system is contained in a bzr branch, together with the remainder of the CASA system. ... Build: . ... To debug the SCons build process: . ... A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ...