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* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
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Atlas and crater
The mission will explore a permanently shadowed region of a lunar pole by crashing the spent Centaur rocket upper stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle into a dark crater.
This feature lies to the southeast of the crater Atlas, and southwest of Chevallier.
To the southwest is the somewhat smaller crater Atlas.
Atlas is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the southeast of Mare Frigoris.
A system of slender clefts named the Rimae Atlas crosses the crater floor, and were created by volcanism.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Atlas.
Hercules is a prominent crater located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the west of the crater Atlas.
It lies due north of the prominent crater Atlas, and to the northeast of the notable Hercules.
Chevallier is a lunar crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, about a crater diameter east-southeast of the prominent crater Atlas.
Just to the west of the rim of Chevallier is Atlas A, a sharp-rimmed, bowl-shaped crater.
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* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")
* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn
* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster
* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine
* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear
* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species
* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher
* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species
* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo
* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics
* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor
* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game
* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky
* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand
* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman
* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games
* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann
* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture
* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics
Atlas and prominent
This third result shows up visually as an extremely prominent and unusual spiral arm and dust lane structures as originally noted in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
The two galaxies are listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as one of several prominent examples of a spiral galaxy with a companion galaxy.
The most prominent consumer publications of OSI are the Dublin City and District Street Guide, an atlas of Dublin city, and the Complete Road Atlas of Ireland which it publishes in co-operation with Land and Property Services Northern Ireland ( formerly the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland ).
One of the available books was written by Maldives prominent historian Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim Luthufy in his famous history book “ Dhivehi Raajjeyge Geographyge Vanavaru ” ( The Geographical Atlas of Maldives ), in which he mentioned about the physical of the people of Noomaraa.
One of the available books was written by Maldives prominent historian Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim Luthufy in his famous history book “ Dhivehi Raajjeyge Geographyge Vanavaru ” ( The Geographical Atlas of Maldives ), in which he mentioned about the physical of the people of Ihavandhoo.
Atlas and impact
The impact of Polo's book on cartography was delayed: the first map in which some names mentioned by Polo appear was in the Catalan Atlas of Charles V ( 1375 ), which included thirty names in China and a number of other Asian toponyms.
At 11: 31 UTC on 9 October 2009 the Centaur upper stage of its Atlas V carrier rocket impacted Cabeus, followed shortly thereafter by the impact of the LCROSS spacecraft itself.
By facilitating the establishment of local think tanks, Atlas increases both the reach and local credibility of their " free market " message, thereby having " the most cost-effective impact ".
Atlas and on
During the past year, our long-range striking power, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on new strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile has entered the operational inventory.
In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.
* The World Atlas of Wine, resource on wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson
* Edinburgh University wrote compilers for Algol60 ( later updated for Algol60M ) based on their Atlas Autocode compilers initially bootstrapped from the Atlas to the KDF-9.
His works on foreign travel and trade include A General History of Discoveries and Improvements ( 1727 ) and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis ( 1728 ).
Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September 1866.
The Atlas A first flew on 11 June 1957 ; the flight lasted only about 24 seconds before the rocket blew up.
After launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 the protective shroud covering Mariner 4 was jettisoned and the Agena D / Mariner 4 combination separated from the Atlas D booster at 14: 27: 23 UTC on November 28, 1964.
Ayn Rand wrote on morality in her works The Virtue of Selfishness and Atlas Shrugged.
It was acquired by France Telecom ( through Atlas Services Belgium, 100 % shares ) and rebranded to Orange Slovakia on March 27, 2002.
Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, is scheduled for release on October 26, 2012.
The map of Ming dynasty ( 1433 ), based on The Historical Atlas of China
The two-stage Atlas-Agena rocket carrying Mariner 1 had veered off-course during its launch on July 22, 1962 due to a defective signal from the Atlas and a bug in the program equations of the ground-based guiding computer, and subsequently the spacecraft was destroyed by the Range Safety Officer.
What NASA's website describes as " improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment " caused the booster to lose contact with one of the guidance systems on the ground, setting the stage for an apparent software-related guidance system failure.
Darlene Pekul's large 4-color 2-piece fold-out map of the Flanaess included in Gygax's setting was reduced to a small black & white map printed on the inside cover of the Atlas.
In 1983 it was officially named after Atlas of Greek mythology, because it " holds the rings on its shoulders " like the Titan Atlas held the sky up above the Earth.
File: Atlas Rev09. 2x. jpg | Atlas, as imaged by Cassini on June 8, 2005
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