... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 October 15 . Mysterious Changing feature on Titan . Image Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper , Cornell , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? ... Subsequent observations in 2014 found the object remained -- but had changed! ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . c) Changes in the Universe . ... In a universe that is not evolving, we should see as many of these hyper-active galaxy cores in each period of cosmic history. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

. Latest HI Rez Visible Satellite Image . IR Enhanced Image of the PNW . (not always available - sorry) . 500 MB surface and the water vapor distribution: . Surface Pressures: . Extreme precipitation in 1995 and 1996 . Temperatures: Jan-Feb , Mar-Apr , May-Jun , July-August , Sept-Oct, Nov-Dec . Precipitation: Jan-Feb , Mar-Apr , May-Jun, July-Aug , Sept-Oct, Nov-Dec . Annual Precipitation Trends . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

... La Nina Watch . ... 20.07.1998 . ... Scientists are watching to see if an evolving pool of relatively cool water in the mid-Pacific Ocean will develop into a full "La Ni?a". ... From being slightly warmer than normal in the winter, a condition called El Ni?o , much of this water is now slightly colder than normal, a condition that might develop into a La Ni?a - with global weather consequences. ... The last two La Nina years were 1988 and 1995. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - weather . ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Changes From Pm Wiki 1 . This page is intended to describe features of PmWiki 1.0 that have been changed or eliminated in PmWiki 2.0. ... ThisGroup:SideBar&action=edit Edit menu]] . ... action=post no longer exists -- posting a new page is now performed by using ?action=edit with the post control set to a true value. ... PmWiki's ReadPage() function no longer supplies default text for non-existent pages -- this is now decided by whatever functions need the page. ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... Circle area is proportional to the number of tweets + retweets tweets retweets . Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS223 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS223 . ... The top/left position is for the user with the largest number of followers, and the bottom/right is for the smallest number of followers. by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS223 . ...

We present new images of the reflection nebula surrounding the R Coronae Borealis Star, UW Centauri. ... Instead, the morphology of the nebula appears to change as different parts are illuminated by light from the central star that is modulated by shifting thick dust clouds near its surface. ... In this way, the central star acts like a lighthouse shining through holes in the dust clouds and lighting up different portions of the nebula. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 21 . ...

26aug00 ,2000 A temperature sensor is mounted above the IF/LO racks on the rotary floor (in the dome). ... The temperature in the rotary floor room had risen from 74 degF to 82 degF. The air conditioning in the room got the temperature back down to 74 degF at 6:00 hours. ... There is also gain downstairs. ... The current air conditioning needs about 3 hours to get the rotary floor room back to the normal temperature after a nighttime sband xmit experiment (when the air temperature is 73 degF). ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

Modules | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Developer Documentation . ... This is a first attempt at writing the lessons I learned when trying to convert the mod_mmap_static module to Apache 2.0. ... So the name gets a small change from mmap_init to mmap_post_config . ... server_rec *s . ... server config */ . create per-server config structures */ . ... merge server config */ . merge per-server config structures */ . ...

... PmWiki . ... Basic Editing . ... Go to new wiki . ... This page is intended to describe features of PmWiki 1.0 that have been changed or eliminated in PmWiki 2.0. ... You can write them as [[{$Name}?action=upload | ... action=post no longer exists -- posting a new page is now performed by using ?action=edit with the post control set to a true value. ... PmWiki 's ReadPage() function no longer supplies default text for non-existent pages -- this is now decided by whatever functions need the page. ...

... B.1 New functionality . ... B.3 Semantic changes from CSS1 . ... CSS2 builds on CSS1 and all valid CSS1 style sheets are valid CSS2 style sheets. The changes between the CSS1 specification (see [CSS1] ) and this specification fall into three groups: new functionality, updated descriptions of CSS1 functionality, and changes to CSS1. ... Several internationalization features, including list numbering styles , support for bidirectional text , and support for language-sensitive quotation marks . ...

You will need to understand how to set file access permissions numerically before reading this section. Every time you create a file or a directory, its access permissions are set to a predetermined value. ... The values in the mask are subtracted from these values to give a default value for access permissions for the files and directories created by you. For example: 777 (system value for directories) -077 (value of the umask) --- 700 (default access permission of rwx------) . ...