Mount Wilson Observatory is a Los Angeles-area facility with several telescopes open to astronomers and the public. Located on a mountaintop at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet (1,524 meters), the observatory has been a useful location over the decades for measurements on stars, galaxies ...
Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington—are always on call, ready when summoned to rush at a moment’s notice to an awakening volcano anywhere in the world; armed with the latest in lasers, seismometers, and other monitoring devices, they can assess the ...
Hale supervised the building of the telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory with grants from the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the 60-inch (1.5 m) telescope in 1908 and the 100-inch (2.5 m) telescope in 1917. 海爾在之前得到從華盛頓的卡內基協會贊助,監製了威爾遜山天文台的望遠鏡:在1908...
As recommended by the committee formed by Nepal's government to facilitate and monitor mountaineering in the Everest region, Taranath Adhikari—the director general of Nepal's tourism department—said they have plans to move the base camp to a lower altitude. This would mean a longer distance ...
A few days later we met for coffee and hung out the rest of the day, agreeing to meet on Wednesday for a hike in the mountains south of Almaty up to the Big Almatynskoe Ozero, visit the Tien Shan Observatory, the Kosmostantsija (11,500 ft altitude), and descend into the Alma-Arasa...
Mount Graham telescope gets green light from Washington Not Available None - 《Nature》 被引量: 1发表: 1996年 LINC: A Near Infrared Beam Combiner for the Large Binocular Telescope The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), currently under construction on Mount Graham in Arizona, will be the world's...
Thirty-five years ago, Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state erupted, killing 57 people, blasting more than 1,300 feet off the top and raining volcanic ash for miles around. Today, the volcano has become a world-class outdoor laboratory for the
Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington—are always on call, ready when summoned to rush at a moment’s notice to an awakening volcano anywhere in the world; armed with the latest in lasers, seismometers, and other monitoring devices, they can assess the ...
The satellite was placed in polar orbit, with a nominal altitude of 836 km and a repeat cycle of 5.5 days [77,78]. Amongst the 10 sensors equipped on the platform, the MEdium Resolution Spectral Imager-II (MERSI-II) provides imageries both in the visible and infrared portion of the ...