... Mercury's Caloris Basin . ... 20.01.1996 . ... Credit: NASA , JPL , Mariner 10 Explanation: Mercury , the closest planet to the Sun , has a surface with so many craters it resembles the Earth 's Moon . The largest surface feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, which resulted from a collision with an asteroid . ... The Caloris Basin gets very hot because it is near the "sub-solar point" - the point on Mercury 's surface that is directly under the Sun when Mercury is closest to the Sun . ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... November 30, 1997 . Mercury: A Cratered Inferno . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . ... Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun , orbiting at about 1/3 the radius of the Earth's orbit. As Mercury slowly rotates, its surface temperature varies from an unbearably cold -180 degrees Celsius to an unbearably hot 400 degrees Celsius . ... The above picture was taken by the only spacecraft ever to pass Mercury : Mariner 10 in 1974. Tomorrow's picture: Orion: The Big Picture . ... About APOD > . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... November/December 2006 . ... Creating NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program: The Real Stuff (Abridged), Jeffrey D. Rosendhal . ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . November Sky Map | December Sky Map | ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... New APT ETC Features and Improvements . for ETC version delivered on November 25, 2003) . ... News and . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... For point sources, the ETC also gives an estimate of the "optimal S/N" (i.e. PSF-fitting method). A new thermal model has been implemented. The Backgrounds and extinction laws have been homogenized with those used by the ETCs of other HST instruments. ... Further information can be obtained from the help link connected to the APT ETC user interface. ...

... Yu.A.Nefyodov, M.R.Trunin, A.F.Shevchun, D.V.Shovkun, N.N.Kolesnikov, M.P.Kulakov, A.Agliolo Gallitto, and S.Fricano, Europhysics Letters 58 (3), 422 (2002) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 067006 (2004) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, Supercond.Sci. ... V.N. Egorov, V.L. Masalov, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, M.R. Trunin, V.E. Zhitomirsky, and M. McLean. ... Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, A.M. Shuvaev, M.R. Trunin . ... Publications . ...

... Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and whispy material. The heavily cratered terrain has numerous craters greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. ... Much of the heavily cratered terrain is located on the trailing hemisphere , with the less cratered plains area existing on the leading hemisphere . ... Because Dione is relatively small, an impact causing a 35 kilometer (21 mile) crater could have spun the satellite. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... November 2011 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Our publications in 2002 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Pramskij, A. G. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #52.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1195 (12/2002) . ... N.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Larsen, S. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Hodge, P. W.; Pramsky, A. G.; Richtler, T. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.855-870 (07/2002) . ... 253-253 (02/2002) . ... 24P (01/2002) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

... Archive of publications: . ... 2004 . ... S.V.Kuzin , I.M.Chertok , V.V.Grechnev , V.A.Slemzin , A.P.Ignat'ev , A.A.Pertsov , I.A.Zhitnik , J.-P.Delaboudiniere , . Coronas-F/Spirit Observations Of Solar Eruptive Events On 23 October v 4 November 2003 Solar Extreme Events of 2003: Fundamental Science and Applied Aspects. ... Coronas-F/Spirit Observations Of Solar Eruptive Events On 17 And 18 November 2003". ... Analysis of a Solar Eruptive Event on November 4, 2001, Using CORONAS-F/SPIRIT Data ". ...

... User Portal . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #7: November 2007 . ... ESO User Portal opens . ... Principal Investigators and registrants of the Science Archive Facility have been sent an e-mail welcoming them to the User Portal and providing them with a new, single, user-manageable account. Users expecting data deliveries (pre-imaging data or archive requests) must activate their User Portal accounts before these deliveries can be made! ...

... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...

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... Research . ... NASA's "follow the water" philosophy has led me to study atmosphere-regolith interactions on Mars in search for locations and times where liquid water is available. ... Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater Mars. ... Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Chevrier, V. F., 2015. ... Icarus , 253, 156-158. Lopez Garcia, E. J., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Schenk, P. M., Hammond, N. P., Barr, A. C., 2014. ... Icarus , 237, 419-421. ... Chevrier, V. F., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , 2012. ...