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The organisation is mission center for several key current missions ( Kepler Mission, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )) and a major contributor to the '" new exploration focus '" as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle and Ares I crew launch vehicle projects.
The Kuiper Airborne Observatory and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy use airplanes to observe in the infrared, which is absorbed by water vapor in the atmosphere.
Eureka, which is the second northernmost settlement in the world, consists of three areas, " Eureka Aerodrome " which includes " Fort Eureka " ( the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment ), the Environment Canada Weather Station and the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory ( PEARL ), formally the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone ( AStrO ) Observatory.
For example, Lowell staff built a sophisticated high-speed camera for use on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).
Notable examples of bolometers employed in submillimeter astronomy include the Herschel Space Observatory, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).
* Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ), a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center ( DLR ) for an airborne telescope.
As of 2011, the engineers are working on the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera ( HAWC ), which will be an integral part of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).
It has been succeeded by a Boeing 747-based airborne observatory equipped with a larger aperture telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).
# REDIRECT Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Current observational experiments in the infrared include NICMOS, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Keck Interferometer, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, and the Herschel Space Observatory.
The base consists of three areas, the Eureka Aerodrome which includes " Fort Eureka " ( the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment ), the Environment Canada Weather Station, and the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory ( PEARL ), formerly the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory ( AStrO ).
* Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory, Eureka
# REDIRECT Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
* SOFIA ( Stratospheric Observatory for infrared Astronomy )-NASA 747SP
Becklin is Chief Scientist for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ), which is a 2. 7m infrared telescope installed in a modified Boeing 747-SP.
* Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )

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" Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atomic Catalyzed Destruction of Ozone.
He is currently Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development and co-chair of the International Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone.
* SPICE, Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering

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Another data source is satellite measurements from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment ( SAGE ) program.
Stratospheric injection of aerosols by volcanoes is a major cause of short-term climate change.

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* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).
“ The Power to Destroy: Understanding Stratospheric Ozone Politics as a Common Pool Resource Problem ”, in J. Barkin and G. Shambaugh ( eds.
“ The Vienna Convention, Montreal Protocol and Global Policy to Protect Stratospheric Ozone ”, in P. Wexler et al.
* Downie, David ( 2013 )Stratospheric Ozone Depletion .” The Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics.
Since 1979 the Stratospheric sounding units ( SSUs ) on the NOAA operational satellites provided near global stratospheric temperature data above the lower stratosphere.
* Excelsior III free-fall from a Stratospheric Balloon, Details of the highest parachute jump ever.
" Stratospheric temperature trends: Observations and model simulations " Review of Geophysics Vol.
Stratospheric aerosols cool the surface and troposphere by reflecting solar radiation, warm the stratosphere by absorbing terrestrial radiation, and when combined with anthropogenic chlorine in the stratosphere, destroy ozone which moderates the effect of lower stratospheric warming.
* Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone: 1989.
File: Polar Stratospheric Cloud veil type I. jpg | A veil of type I PSC, easily confused with cirrostratus clouds or tropospheric haze

Stratospheric and NASA
* NASA Tech Brief DRC-00-08: Soaring to 100, 000 ft on Stratospheric Mountain Waves

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Eddy completed his PhD Thesis at the University of Colorado at Boulder in December 1961 titled " The Stratospheric Solar Aureole ".
* Polar Stratospheric Clouds Above Spitsbergen at Alfred Wegener Institute

Stratospheric and high
METEOR-3M includes the SAGE III ( Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment ) payload and other instruments designed to measure temperature and humidity profiles, clouds, surface properties, and high energy particles in the upper atmosphere.

Stratospheric and above
File: Polar Stratospheric Cloud type I above Cirrus. jpg | A type I PSC ( white cloud above the orange tropospheric clouds ), showing fine horizontal structures in the veil.

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* Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment, satellites used to study the chemical composition of earth's atmosphere

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An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.
STS-93 on Columbia ( July 22 to 27, 1999 ) was a five-day mission during which Coleman was the lead mission specialist for the deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for impact craters.
While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.
Number One Observatory Circle, located on the northeast grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, was built in 1893 for its superintendent.
In 1960, Frank Drake conducted the first search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.
In 1886 Eiffel also designed the dome for the Astronomical Observatory in Nice.
Lovecraft was a keen amateur astronomer from his youth, often visiting the Ladd Observatory in Providence, and penning numerous astronomical articles for local newspapers.
In 1825 Adams signed a bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office – which became the Naval Observatory.
* 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time.
The largest optical telescope in the world as of 2009 to use a non-segmented single-mirror as its primary mirror is the 8. 2 m ( 8. 7 yards ) Subaru telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located in Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii since 1997 ; however, this is not the largest diameter single mirror in a telescope, the U. S ./ German / Italian Large Binocular Telescope has two 8. 4 m ( 9. 2 yards ) mirrors ( which can be used together for interferometric mode ).
In 1900 and 1901, Harvard Observatory director William Henry Pickering led two searches for trans-Neptunian planets.
" Unbeknown to Pickering, four of the photographic plates taken in the search for " Planet O " by astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 captured images of Pluto, though this was only recognised years later.
From 1914 to 1916, a telescope on loan from Sproul Observatory was used to search for Planet X.
In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory, discovered Pluto near the location expected for Planet X.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory catalogue was compiled in 1966 from various previous astrometric catalogues, and contains only the stars to about ninth magnitude for which accurate proper motions were known.
USNO-B1. 0 is an all-sky catalog created by research and operations astrophysicists at the U. S. Naval Observatory ( as developed at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station ), that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star / galaxy estimators for 1, 042, 618, 261 objects derived from 3, 643, 201, 733 separate observations.
Construction of the predecessor of the present Kamioka Observatory, the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo began in 1982 and was completed in April, 1983.
Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built and first used for regular communication the electromagnetic telegraph in 1833 in Göttingen, connecting Göttingen Observatory and the Institute of Physics, covering a distance of about 1 km.
In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency that lasted for several months, from suspended dust.

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