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	Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex - Biocrawler
		The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) —commonly called the Goldstone Observatory— is located in California's Mojave Desert (USA).
		The observatory is part of NASA's Deep Space Network.
		Goldstone radio telescopes are also used in the search for ultra-high energy neutrino interactions in the Moon by using large-aperture radio antennas.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex (129 words)

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		The Goldstone images are further divided into subdirectories based on the 3 Pre-Magellan Radar and Gravity Data October 23, 1990 year in which the images were acquired.
		The Goldstone Altimetry data set is in tabular format and consists of latitude, longitude, planetary radius, and altitude (in meters) relative to a 6 mb reference surface.
		Goldstone data offer a unique view of the planet, since the regions observed are located to the south of Venera Orbiter 15, 16 radar coverage and occupy a latitudinal belt that is not completely accessible by the Arecibo radar system.
	pds-geosciences.wustl.edu /geo/premgn/mg_1001/document/volinfo.txt (10886 words)

	News - New Images of Dust Devils, Dunes and "The Face"
		The clearest radar pictures of a near-Earth double asteroid system were taken by astronomers last week using NASA's Goldstone radar telescope, revealing clues to the system's current structure but raising questions about its origin and future.
		A team of astronomers studied images that show the trail of the smaller component orbiting a larger object, made with the Goldstone radar, a 70-meter (230-foot) antenna in California's Mojave Desert.
		"Goldstone was able to track the asteroid for up to eight hours daily for a week.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/2001/binaryasteroid.html (758 words)

	JPL.NASA.GOV: Student Telescope Program at Goldstone Turns 10
		The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Program in California's Mojave Desert celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
		This premier educational program has trained 21,000 students at 177 schools in 27 states and 13 countries, and it continues to expand.
		During the celebration, the telescope will be renamed the Dr. Michael J. Klein Radio Observatory, in honor of the late JPL scientist who was instrumental in helping to form the program.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /news/news-print.cfm?release=2006-120 (355 words)

	Mercury's Core Molten, Radar Study Shows
		The discovery, which used the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory antennas in California, is an important step toward a better understanding of how planets form and evolve.
		The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
		The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.
	www.nrao.edu /pr/2007/mercury (772 words)

	Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
		Madrid and Goldstone were tracking during the Powered Descent and landing – which took place at 6:18am Eastern Australian time.
		Goldstone and Honeysuckle were monitoring the FM portion of the signal from the Lunar Module, waiting for a TV signal.
		Although Goldstone was receiving a good signal, a problem with the scan converter meant that the picture that was being sent to Houston had been effectively compressed into the fl – so very little detail was visible.
	www.honeysucklecreek.net /Apollo_11/TV_from_Moon.html (1605 words)

	Chajnantor Observatory
		The Chajnantor Observatory, a facility operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in collaboration with the University of Chile and the University of Concepción, is located at an elevation of 5080 meters (16700 feet) in the Andes mountains in northern Chile.
		The observatory is partially supported by the Strategic Alliance for the Implementation of New Technologies (SAINT).
		Another important aspect of the Chajnantor Observatory is the active collaboration with undergraduates and graduate students from the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Concepción, and two students are currently doing PhD theses based on work carried out at the observatory.
	www.astro.caltech.edu /chajnantor (518 words)

	Radar reveals asteroid force - physicsworld.com
		This might be enough to push the asteroid inwards from the “main belt” - which lies between Mars and Jupiter – and towards the Earth.
		Steven Chesley of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California and colleagues at JPL, Charles University in Prague, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the University of California at Los Angeles have now studied how the orbit of asteroid 6489 “Golevka” has changed over a period of 12 years.
		They analysed radar data taken using telescopes at Arecibo and the Goldstone Observatory in California, and found that the Yarkovsky effect has changed Golevka’s orbit by about 15 kilometres since 1991.
	www.physicsweb.org /articles/news/7/12/3/1 (394 words)

	SPACE.com -- Tale of the TV Tapes: Apollo 11 Mission Archive Mystery Unspools
		The highest-quality television signal from Apollo 11's touchdown zone in the moon's Sea of Tranquility--from an antenna mounted atop the Eagle lunar lander--was recorded on telemetry tapes at three tracking stations on Earth: Goldstone in California and Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes in Australia.
		That is not the case," explained John Sarkissian, operations scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's (CSIRO) Parkes Radio Observatory in Parkes, Australia.
		Sarkissian said the tapes were appropriately handled and archived in the mid 1970's after the hectic activity of the Apollo lunar landing era was over.
	www.space.com /news/060813_apollo11_tapes.html (1427 words)

	northanger: 2000 PN9 Flyby & POCAHONTAS
		We have five Goldstone tracks on dates that straddle the closest approach.
		We observed 2000 PN9 at Goldstone and Arecibo in March, 2001, when the asteroid approached within 0.061 AU.
		Goldstone observations are scheduled on March 4, 7, 9, 10, and 12 and Arecibo observations are scheduled on March 5.
	northanger.livejournal.com /198521.html (674 words)

	Radio astronomers locate SOHO
		With the encouragement of Dr. Alan Kiplinger of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder, CO, researchers at the U.S. National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, used the facility's 305-meter (990-foot) diameter radio telescope to transmit a signal toward SOHO on July 23.
		The Arecibo Observatory, located in Puerto Rico, is operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center.
		The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency.
	science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast28jul98_1.htm (882 words)

	Goldstone, We Had a Problem :: Astrobiology Magazine - beginning study of life - Origin - evolution - life beyond Earth ...
		Called SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had proven to be a huge hit on the internet, as millions could view real-time images of the Sun, discover comets, or check space weather for flares, prominences, or sunspots.
		Until SOHO could be restored to its full capabilities two months later, NASA and ESA considered a replacement spacecraft as their only viable alternative, particularly given the proven importance of monitoring the Sun continuously.
		The higher-rate transmissions from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) were initially interrupted, since these large data sets depended on the movement of the pointing antenna to stay on track.
	www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=516&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1718 words)

	EZGeography - Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
		The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) —commonly called the Goldstone Observatory— is located in California's Mojave Desert (USA).
		The observatory is part of NASA's Deep Space Network.
		Goldstone radio telescopes are also used in the search for ultra-high energy neutrino interactions in the Moon by using large-aperture radio antennas.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Goldstone_Observatory (96 words)

	Off-Campus Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Named for the nearby Goldstone Dry Lake, the facility is situated on a 68-square-mile plot of land leased by NASA from the Department of Defense.
		The Observatory is located near Bishop, California, approximately 250 miles north of Los Angeles on the east side of the Sierra Nevadas.
		The Observatory is open to the public on Saturdays in June, July, and August from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /facilities/off_campus.html (1274 words)

	2006GY2_planning.html
		The PI of these observations is Dr. Michael Nolan at Arecibo Observatory.
		Goldstone observations are scheduled on May 13 and 16, and Arecibo observations are scheduled on May 15 and 16.
		The Goldstone SNRs will increase rapidly from the first to the third track as the asteroid rapidly approaches Earth.
	echo.jpl.nasa.gov /asteroids/2006GY2/html/2006GY2_planning.html (542 words)

	DSN: Goldstone Tour: Gemini Site
		The two 34-meter-diameter (111-foot) beam waveguide antennas, originally built for the Army, were transferred to NASA management in 1994.
		As with the other 34-meter beam waveguide antennas at Goldstone, these dishes have four precision radio frequency mirrors to reflect signals to a receiving area located below the antenna.
		The Gemini equipment began its service by participating in the Solar Heliospheric Observatory and the Infrared Space Observatory missions to the Sun.
	deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov /dsn/goldstone/gemini04.html (116 words)

	One small step in hunt for moon film world didn't see - National - smh.com.au
		The grainy fl-and-white television images broadcast to 600 million viewers on July 20, 1969, were a photocopy of a photocopy of the original images captured on the moon's surface by a specially built camera.
		The footage broadcast to the world was shot by a television camera pointed at a monitor receiving the images from the moon.
		All the Apollo mission flights and moon landings were captured in this way and transferred onto one-inch tapes at Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek in Australia and the Goldstone Observatory in California.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/one-small-step/2006/08/19/1155408073519.html (797 words)

	'KW4' Not A Threat To Earth - At Least For A Thousand Years
		The Arecibo Observatory is managed by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell University for the National Science Foundation.
		KW4, the astronomers say, is actually a pair of light, porous clusters of rubble that circle each other as they orbit from a point closer to the Sun than Mercury and then outward - occasionally passing very close to Earth along the way.
		Unlike single asteroids, where physical properties are impossible to determine from Earth-based observations, binaries can reveal information about their mass and density by their interaction with each other.
	www.spacedaily.com /reports/KW4_Not_A_Threat_To_Earth_At_Least_For_A_Thousand_Years_999.html (791 words)

	IMAGE Spacecraft
		The IMAGE observatory is a spin-stabilized spacecraft that measures 2.25 meters (7.4 feet) in diameter and 1.52 meters (4.99 feet) in height and weighs 494 kg (1087 pounds) (including instruments).
		The real-time data are primarily used by the Communications Research Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admistration's Space Environment Center, together with data from other sources, to prepare space weather forecasts.
		Because of the Earth's annual motion about the Sun, IMAGE will be able to view each local time from apogee twice during the mission.
	pluto.space.swri.edu /image/spacecraft.html (644 words)

	Space and Astronomy News
		Two Supermassive Black Holes In Colliding Galaxies - Astronomers have used powerful adaptive optics technology at the W. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to reveal the precise locations and environments of a pair of supermassive fl holes at the center of an ongoing collision between two galaxies 300 million light-years away.
		Structure Of The Sun's Magnetic Field - Hinode, the newest solar observatory on the space scene, has obtained never-before-seen images showing that the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known.
		Quasar Light Variability Linked To Black Hole Mass - Quasars are some of the most luminous and distant objects in the universe and appear to have something in common with ordinary light bulbs, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
	www.sciencenewsden.com /space.shtml (5757 words)

	Newswise
		The Science article, "Binary Asteroids in the Near-Earth Object Population," is coauthored by Michael Nolan, research associate at Arecibo; Lance Benner, Steven Ostro, Raymond Jurgens, Jon Giorgini and Martin Slade at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); and Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy at Cornell.
		The observations were made at the 70-meter Goldstone NASA tracking telescope in California and at Arecibo Observatory.
		Arecibo Observatory is operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=ASTERD.CNS (1026 words)

	astronomyLINKS - radio astronomy - astronomy and space directory, links, booksmarks and more.
		Named for the nearby Goldstone Dry Lake, the facility is situated on a 68-square-mile plot of land leased by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) from the Department of Defense.
		Description: The purpose of the GAVRT project is to provide students and educators with curriculum vehicles that will promote science literacy, support a better understanding of the scientific community, and to provide the opportunity to collect real-time data with sophisticated science equipment through distance learning.
		Description: The Very Large Array; The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
	astronomylinks.com /radio_astronomy (345 words)

	Scheduled Arecibo Radar Asteroid / Comet Observations
		Scheduled Goldstone Asteroid Radar observations are listed at the JPL Asteroid Radar Research page.
		Cancelled after 1 day due to equipment failure (R2035)
		Also scheduled at Goldstone on Apr il 23-24.
	www.naic.edu /~pradar/sched.shtml (128 words)

	Cornell Astronomers Are Optimistic About Observatory's Future Despite Arecibo Cuts
		We remain dedicated to the core scientific programs of the Arecibo Observatory and, accordingly, we are pleased that the review recognizes the facility's significant contributions today and its potential for important discoveries well into the next decade.
		Arecibo is also one of only two telescopes in the world with radar capability (the other is the Goldstone NASA tracking telescope in California).
		Cornell has operated Arecibo as a national facility since 1971, and in 2005 was awarded a cooperative agreement to continue operations until 2010.
	www.spacemart.com /reports/Cornell_Astronomers_Are_Optimistic_About_Observatory_Future_Despite_Arecibo_Cuts_999.html (964 words)

	ScienceDaily: Radar Images Capture Big, Slowly Tumbling Asteroid
		The discovery provided adequate notice for radar observations to be scheduled at Goldstone from July 18 to August 8 and at Arecibo from August 1-9 during the asteroid's close approach to 8.5 million kilometers (5.3 million miles), the equivalent of 22 Earth-Moon distances.
		The radar imaging technique uses transmissions of sophisticated coded waveforms and computer determinations of how echoes are distributed in range and frequency, instead of their angular distribution, as in normal optical pictures.
		The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by the Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation and with support from NASA.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1999/08/990827073615.htm (1063 words)

	Infrared Space Observatory - ISO :outreach:bck_grnd (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The European Space Agency's (ESA) Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is an astronomical satellite that was operational between November 1995 and May 1998.
		Derek Ward-Thompson of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (UK) and his colleagues at Cambridge University and in France, first detected the pre-stellar core L1689B, using observations at sub-millimetre radio wavelengths, in the constellation Ophiuchus.
		ESA's Infrared Space Observatory ISO has detected dust for the first time in the apparently empty space between the galaxies.
	www.iso.vilspa.esa.es /outreach/bck_grnd/iso_fact.htm (3508 words)

	Subject: HRMS Update - January 1993 NASA HIGH RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SURVEY (HRMS) TARGETED (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, operated by Cornell University for the National Science Foundation.
		In a coordinated program, the Arecibo antenna pointed at the star GL615.1A and the Goldstone antenna began to scan a small area of sky that included the position of the target star.
		This work is in preparation for observations of nearby sun-like stars in the Southern Hemisphere, scheduled to begin in 1994 at the 64-meter antenna of the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
	www.skepticfiles.org /skep2/hrmsnasa.htm (1132 words)

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