Life on Mars?

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OK,
Back after some researches, studies and yes had to do those in some good speed.
here comes the all needed documents and everything related to mars one by one.
there will be many to come , so I will have to post it slowly
some may already be said but I am not removing those as that will be easy for me to present my assignment.
Captain and other crew members ...

Mars - The Red Planet - 4th From the Sun

MEAN RADIUS: 3388.0 km
MASS: 0.108 (Earth=1)
DENSITY: 3.94 (g/cm^3)
GRAVITY: 0.380 (Earth=1)
ORBIT PERIOD: 686.98 (Earth days)
ROTATION PERIOD: 1.026 (Earth days)
SEMIMAJOR AXIS OF ORBIT: 1.524 au
ECCENTRICITY OF ORBIT: 0.093

Named for the Roman god of War, Mars probably got this name due to its red color. It is sometimes referred to as the Red Planet. The name of the month March derives from Mars. Known since prehistoric times, Mars is still a favorite of choice for human exploration.

The density of Mars is about 30 percent less than that of Earth (3.94 g/cm3 vs. 5.52 g/cm3). Its core is probably similar to Earth's, mostly iron, with small amounts of nickel, but spacecraft mapping of its gravity field seem to indicate that its iron-rich core and mantle are a smaller portion of its volume than on Earth. Also, its smaller magnetic field than Earth, indicates a solid, rather than liquid core.

Mars' atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide, nearly 3 percent nitrogen, and nearly 2 percent argon with trace quantities of oxygen, carbon monoxide, water vapor, ozone, and other trace gases.

The average temperature on Mars is about -55 C or -67 F. It can range from -133 C or -207 F at the winter pole to almost 27 C or 80 F on the day side during summer. Orbiting 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun, the Martian year is nearly two Earth years, while its day is only about half an hour longer than Earth's.

Mars has two tiny satellites which orbit very close to the surface:
Satellites
Phobos
Distance(000km) 9 - Radius (km) 11 - Mass (kg) 1.08e16 - Discovered By & Year Hall 1877
Deimos
Distance(000km) 23 - Radius (km) 6 - Mass (kg) 1.80e15 - Discovered By & Year Hall 1877

Next pictures with glossaries

 

And...they can be as daring as Evel Knievel at times!

 

global storm

 

position of Earth and Mars at last 5 oppositions

 

the Mars in detail (1)

 

Looks good as long as we don't run into it.

 

the Mars in detail (2)

 

positions and views

 

Mars - as we see

 

Nice pics Sub! You certainly don't want us to ge lost, don't you? Or maybe you don't trust neither ours or the three Stooges' sense of direction?

I wonder why

 

loooooool Captain I will anytime trust you three but sorry the stooges' man.. I would rather prefer being alone in Pluto
Captain

the Lay Man's glossary

(µ to D)

µg   microgravity   
µm   10-6 m (micron)   
Å   Angstrom, 10-10 m   
ACS   Attitude Control System   
A/D   Analogue/Digital   
AF   Air Force   
AFB   Air Force Base   
AIT   Assembly, Integration and Testing   
AKM   Apogee Kick Motor   
AO   Announcement of Opportunity   
AOCS   Attitude and Orbit Control System   
AS   Air Station   
ASEAN   Association of South East Asia Nations   
ASIC   Application Specific Integrated Circuit   
AU   Astronomical Unit (149.598 million km) or ESA Accounting Unit (equivalent to the ECU)   
billion   1,000 million   
BOL/EOL   Beginning Of Life/End Of Life   
C3   Command, Control and Communications   
C4   Command, Control, Communications and Computers   
CAD   Computer-Aided Design   
CCT   Computer-Compatible Tape   
CDR   Critical Design Review   
cleanliness   the Directory adopts the US system specified by the numerical limit of 0.5 µm particles per ft3 (0.028 m3). Thus a class 10,000 environment has fewer than 10,000 particles of 0.5 µm in 1 ft3 (0.028 m3). Most satellite and launcher integration and testing facilities are class 100,000. Class 10 and class 100 facilities are used for assembly of sensitive items such as gyros   
cm   centimetre (1 inch = 2.54 cm)   
CNC   Computer Numerical Control   
Conus   Continental United States   
COTS   Commercial-Off-The-Shelf   
CPV   Common Pressure Vessel   
DAMA   Demand Assigned Multiple Access   
DBS   Direct Broadcast Satellite   
DGPS   Differential GPS   
DoF   Degrees of Freedom   
DRAM   Dynamic Random Access Memory   
DTH   Direct To Home

 

(E to L)

ECLSS   Environment Control and Life Support System   
ECU   European Currency Unit   
EGSE   Electrical Ground Support Equipment   
EIRP   Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power   
elint   electronic intelligence   
EM   Engineering Model   
EPC   Electronic Power Conditioner   
ESA   European Space Agency   
eV   electron Volt   
fl   focal length   
FM   Flight Model   
FoV   Field of View   
FSD   Full Scale Development   
FWHM   Full Width Half Maximum   
FY   Fiscal Year   
g   gravitational acceleration (9.806 m/s)   
GDP   Gross Domestic Product   
GEO   Geostationary Orbit; altitude 35,786 km, 0? inclination, period 23.934 h   
GH2   Gaseous Hydrogen   
GIS   Geographic Information System   
GMDSS   Global Maritime Distress and Safety System   
GMT   Greenwich Mean Time (=UT, Universal Time)   
GN&C   Guidance, Navigation and Control   
GNP   Gross National Product   
GOX   Gaseous Oxygen   
GPS   Global Positioning System   
GSE   Ground Support Equipment   
GSM   Groupe Sp?ciale Mobile   
GSO   Geosynchronous Orbit   
GTO   Geostationary Transfer Orbit   
HES   Health, Environment and Safety   
HGA   High Gain Antenna   
HOOD   Hierarchical Object Oriented Design   
HPA   High-Power Amplifier   
HRVIR   High-Resolution Visible Infra-Red   
IC   Integrated Circuit   
ICBM   InterContinental Ballistic Missile (range >5,500 km)   
IFOG   Interferometric Fibre Optic Gyro   
IMU   Inertial Measurement Unit   
INS   Inertial Navigation System   
INU   Inertial Navigation Unit   
IOC   Initial Operational Capability   
IRBM   Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (range 500-5,500 km)   
IRU   Inertial Reference Unit   
ISDN   Integrated Services Digital Network   
km   kilometre (0.6214 mile)   
L   Launched   
LEO   Low Earth Orbit, typically up to 1,500 km   
LEOP   Launch and Early Orbit Phase   
LH2   Liquid Hydrogen   
LHCP   Left-Hand Circular Polarisation   
LiOH   Lithium Hydroxide   
LITVC   Liquid Injection Thrust Vector Control   
LNA   Low-Noise Amplifier   
LOX   Liquid Oxygen

 

(m to R)

m   metre (39.37 inch)   
MAU   Member Accounting Unit   
MEOP   Maximum Expected Operating Pressure   
MGSE   Mechanical Ground Support Equipment   
micron   10-6 m   
MIR   Mid Infra-Red   
MMH   Monomethyl Hydrazine   
MMIC   Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit   
MON   Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen   
MoU   Memorandum of Understanding   
MPD   Magnetoplasmadynamic   
MW   Momentum Wheel   
N   Newton (0.225 lbf)   
NASA   National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)   
Ni/Cd   Nickel Cadmium   
Ni/H2   Nickel Hydrogen   
NiMH   Nickel Metal Hydride   
NIR   Near Infra-Red   
NSSK   North-South Station-Keeping   
NTO, N2O4   Nitrogen Tetroxide   
OBDH   Onboard Data Handling   
OEM   Original Equipment Manufacturer   
PAN   Panchromatic   
PDR   Preliminary Design Review   
PI   Principal Investigator   
PKM   Perigee Kick Motor   
PMD   Propellant Management Device   
ppm   parts per million   
PROM   Programmable Read-Only Memory   
QM   Qualification Model   
RAM   Random Access Memory   
RCS   Reaction Control System   
RDT&E   Research, Development, Test and Evaluation   
RF   Radio Frequency   
RHCP   Right Hand Circular Polarisation   
RLG   Ring Laser Gyro   
RLV   Reusable Launch Vehicle   
RW   Reaction Wheel

 

(S to End)

SAR   Synthetic Aperture Radar   
SCADA   Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition   
SCOE   Special Check-Out Equipment   
SEP   Spherical Error Probability   
SEU   Single Event Upset   
SGLS   US DoD's Space Ground Link Subsystem   
sigint   signals intelligence   
SL   Sea Level   
SLBM   Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile   
SNG   Satellite News Gathering   
SOS   Sapphire On Silicon   
SSPA   Solid-State Power Amplifier   
SSR   Solid-State Recorder   
STDN   NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Network   
SW   Space Wing   
SWIR   Short Wave Infra-Red   
t   metric tonne (1,000 kg; 0.984 ton; 1.102 US ton)   
TC   Telecommand   
TCR   Telemetry, Command and Ranging   
TT&C   Tracking, Telemetry and Command   
TVC   Thrust Vector Control   
TVRO   TV Receive Only   
TWTA   Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier   
UTM   Universal Transverse Mercator grid projection   
VHSIC   Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit   
VLBI   Very Long Baseline Interferometry   
VNIR   Very Near Infra-Red   
VTIR   Visible/Thermal Infra-Red   
W   Watt   
WWW   World Wide Web (Internet)   
XS   multispectral

 

OK,

Now The Complete Glossary for the more experienced persons and specially made for Infinity .

The glossary I have I think put almost everything, and should give answer to any question regarding space terminology.
Here it goes( its real big so I have got it broken down)

A ...
AACS: Attitude & Articulation Control Subsystem.
AAF: Association Astronautique Francaise.
AAS: American Astronautical Society.
ABL: Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory.
Ablation: The erosion of a solid body by a high-temperature gas stream moving with high velocity, e.g. a reentry vehicle's heat shield which melts or chars under the effects of air friction.
ABMA: Army Ballistic Missile Agency (USA).
Abort: To cancel or cut short a mission.
Absolute zero: The temperature at which all heat action ceases, -273.16oC (-459.69oF).
Acceleration: A change in velocity, including changes of direction and decreases as well as increases in speed.
Accelerometer: A device that senses changes in speed along its axis.
ACS: Attitude Control System.
Active heating: The use of resistive electric heaters or radioisotope heaters to keep spacecraft components above their minimum allowable temperatures.
Active sun: The Sun during times of frequent solar activity such as sunspots, flares, and associated phenomena.
Actuator: A device which transforms an electric signal into a measured motion using hydraulic, pneumatic or pyrotechnic (explosive) action.
Aerobraking: The process of decelerating by converting velocity into heat through friction with a planetary atmosphere.
Aerodynamic heating: The heating of a body due to the passage of air or other gases over the body; caused by friction and compression processes.
Aeronautics: The science of building and operating vehicles for flight.
Aerozine 50: A storable liquid fuel: 50% hydrazine, 50% UDMH.
AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (USA).
AIDAA: Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica.
Aileron: A hinged surface on the wing of an aircraft or spacecraft used to adjust the craft's angle of flight.
Aimpoint: The point in the planet's plane that spacecraft aim for to either fly by or enter orbit.
Airglow: The visible light that appears at night in the upper atmosphere.
Air lock: A compartment separating areas a different environment, especially different air pressures, that is used for entry to and departure from a spacecraft.
Albedo: Reflectivity; the ratio of reflected light to incident light. The fraction of the sunlight which is reflected off a planet.
Algae: A group of simple organisms, mostly aquatic, which contain chlorophyll and thus provide a means of photosynthesis. They could be used to absorb carbon dioxide and provide nourishment in a spaceship.
ALSEP: Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package.
Altimeter: A device that measures altitude above the surface of a planet or moon. Spacecraft altimeters work by timing the round trip of radio signals bounced off the surface.
Ambient: Environmental conditions, such as pressure or temperature.
Analog computer: A computing machine that works on the principle of measuring, as distinct from counting, in which the measurements obtained (as voltages, resistances, etc.) are translated into desired data.
Angle of attack: The angle between the velocity vector and the longitudinal axis of a missile or rocket.
Angstrom: A unit for the measurement of wavelength. Equals one hundred millionth of a centimeter (0.003937 millionth of an inch).
Annular: Pertaining to, or having the form of a ring.
Anomaly: The angular distance between the position of a planet and its last perihelion, or between that of a satellite and its last perigee.
Anti-matter: A hypothetical form of matter of which the atoms are composed of anti-particles, as protons, electrons, etc. assumed to carry charges opposite to those associated with ordinary matter. Particles having such properties have been produced in particle accelerators.
Antipodal: Pertaining to, or located on, the opposite side of the Earth.
AOCS: Attitude & Orbit Control System.
Aperture: The diameter of an opening; the diameter of the primary lens or mirror of a telescope.
Apex: The point towards which a body is moving.
Aphelion: That point in a solar orbit which is farthest from the Sun.
Apoapsis: That point in an orbit which is farthest from the primary.
Apogee: That point in a terrestrial orbit which is farthest from the Earth.
Apolune: That point in a lunar orbit which is farthest from the Moon.
Argument: Angular distance.
Argument of periapsis: In an orbit, the angular distance between the point of periapsis and the ascending node.
Arianespace: A private limited company established for the purpose of producing, financing and marketing the ESA Ariane launch vehicle. Comprises European companies concerned in the rocket's development, CNES and several banks. US agent is Grumman Aerospace.
ARS: American Rocket Society (USA).
Artificial gravity: Use of centrifugal force to simulate weight reaction in a condition of free-fall. May be achieved by spinning the vehicle to make the centrifugal force of the outer periphery or bodies within the vehicle to replace the weight reaction experienced at Earth's surface.
ASAT: Anti-satellite.
Ascending node: The point at which an orbiting object or spacecraft, traveling from south to north, crosses the plane of the equator.
Ascent module: That part of a spacecraft that ascends from the surface of a planet or moon to rendezvous and dock with an orbiting spacecraft.
Asteroid: A small, usually irregularly shaped body orbiting the sun, most often at least partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid belt: A 1/2 AU wide region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found.
Astronaut: A person who flies in space, whether as a crew member or passenger.
Astronautics: The science and technology of space flight.
Astronomical unit: The mean distance of Earth from the Sun, i.e. 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km).
Astrophysics: Study of the physical and chemical nature of celestial bodies and their environs.
ATDA: Agena Target Docking Adapter.
Atmospheric balloon: An instrumented package suspended from a buoyant gas bag; deployed in a planet's atmosphere to study wind circulation patterns.
Atmospheric pressure: The weight of air on surfaces within Earth's atmosphere, about 14.7 psi (101 kPa) at sea level. Such pressure is also supplied artificially in spacecraft and spacesuits.
Atmospheric probe: A small instrumented craft which separates from the main spacecraft prior to closest approach to a planet to study the gaseous atmosphere of the body as it drops through it.
Attenuation: The decrease of a propagating physical quantity, such as a radio signal, with increasing distance from the source, or from some obstruction.
Attitude: Orientation of a space vehicle as determined by the relationship between its axes and some reference plane, e.g. the horizon.
Attitude & articulation control subsystem: The onboard computer that manages the tasks involved in spacecraft stabilization via its interface equipment. For attitude reference, star trackers, star scanners, solar trackers, sun sensors, and planetary limb trackers are used.
Attitude control: The system that turns and maintains a spacecraft in the required direction as indicated by its sensors.
AU: Astronomical Unit.
Aurora: Arcs, rays or swaying curtains of green, yellow or white lights seen in latitudes of about 70o, such as Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, and Aurora Australis or Southern Lights; caused by streams of electrified particles, emitted by the Sun, trapped in the Earth's magnetic field.
Autopilot: A system or device that controls a vehicle's flight at a preset course and altitude.
Azimuth: The angular position of an object measured in the observer's horizontal plane, usually from north through east. Bearing or direction in the horizontal plane. As one of the coordinates expressing celestial location, it is sometimes used in tracking spacecraft.

 

B ...
Backscattering: Reflecting light back in the direction of the source.
Back-up: An item kept available to replace an item which fails to perform satisfactorily.
Ballistics: The science that deals with the motion, behavior, appearance or modification of missiles acted upon by propellants, rifling, wind, gravity, temperature or other modifying conditions of force.
Ballute: An aerodynamic braking device which is both balloon and parachute.
Bar: A unit of pressure equal to one million dynes per square centimeter, or 0.99 atmospheres.
Barycenter: The common center of mass about which two or more bodies revolve.
Basin: A large, >200 km, circular depression from the explosive impact of an asteroid or similar sized body on a planet surface, usually rimmed by mountains.
Battery: A device with two or more connected cells that produce a direct current by converting chemical energy into electrical energy.
Big Bang theory: The theory that the universe was once clustered and at the 'beginning' it exploded out, as shown by the fact that objects are still moving out from the center.
Binary star: Two stars revolving around a common center of gravity.
Bi-propellant: A rocket propellant consisting of two unmixed or uncombined chemicals (fuel and oxidizer) fed separately into the combustion chamber.
BIS: British Interplanetary Society.
Bit: A basic unit of computer information; abbreviation of binary digit.
Black hole: An object whose gravity is so strong that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.
Blackout (physiological): A temporary loss of vision and/or consciousness when a person is subjected to high accelerations.
Blackout (radio): A temporary loss of radio communications which occurs between a spacecraft reentering the atmosphere and ground stations due to an ionized sheath of plasma which develops around the vehicle.
Black powder: A mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal, used in explosives and as an early propellant for rockets.
Boilerplate: A metal replica of the flight model (e.g. of a spacecraft) but usually heavier and cruder for test purposes.
BOL: Beginning Of Life.
Boost: The extra power given to a rocket or space vehicle during liftoff, climb or flight, as with a booster rocket.
Booster: The first stage of a missile or rocket.
Bow shock wave: The compressed wave that forms in front of a spacecraft or satellite as it moves rapidly through Earth's atmosphere; more generally, any such wave that forms between an object and a fluid medium.
Burn: Combustion action in rockets. Propulsion in space is achieved through a sequence of burns.
Bus: A major part of the structural subsystem of a spacecraft which provides a place to attach components internally and externally, and to house delicate modules requiring a measure of thermal and mechanical stability. The bus also establishes the basic geometry of the spacecraft.

 

C ...
Calibration: Setting an measuring instrument before measuring for accurate results.
Carrier: The main frequency of a radio signal generated by a transmitter prior to application of modulation.
CAS: Chinese Academy of Sciences.
CAST: Chinese Academy of Space Technology.
CAT: Capsule Ariane Technologique.
Catalytic decomposition engine: A mono-propellant engine in which a liquid fuel decomposes into hot gas in the presence of a catalyst. The fuel is most commonly hydrazine.
C-band: A range of microwave radio frequencies in the neighborhood of 4 to 8 GHz, used for spacecraft communications on Mercury and Gemini flights (~5 Ghz).
CCD: Charged Coupled Device.
CDS: Command & Data Subsystem.
Celestial sphere: The apparent sphere of sky that surrounds the Earth; used as a convention for specifying the location of a celestial object.
Centrifugal force: A force which is directed away from the center of rotation.
Centripetal force: A force which is directed towards the center of rotation.
CEO: Close Earth Orbit.
CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
Chaff: Metallic foil ejected by a reentry module to enhance its radar image.
Charged coupled device: An imaging device consisting of a large-scale integrated circuit which has a two-dimensional array of hundreds of thousands of charge-isolated wells, each representing a pixel.
Cholorella: A genus of unicellular green algae, proposed for converting carbon dioxide into oxygen for use in spacecraft.
Chromosphere: A reddish layer in the Sun's atmosphere, the transition between the photosphere and the corona.
Cislunar: Relating to the space between the Earth and the orbit of the Moon.
CM: Command Module.
CNES: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France).
CO: Circular Orbit.
Coherence: The property of being coherent, e.g. waves having similar direction, amplitude and phase that are capable of exhibiting interference.
Coma: The cloud of diffuse material surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
Combustion: A chemical reaction between two or more substances that releases heat, light, and gases.
Combustion chamber: The chamber in a rocket where the fuel and oxidizer are ignited and burned. By common usage the expansion nozzle is included as part of the combustion chamber, particularly for liquid-propelled rocket engines.
Comet: A body of small mass but large volume, compared to a planet, often developing a long luminous and partly transparent tail when close to the Sun.
Command & data subsystem: The onboard computer responsible for overall management of a spacecraft's activity.
Command module: The compartment of a spacecraft which contains the crew and main controls, and is used as the reentry vehicle.
Composites: Structural materials of metal alloys or plastics with built-in strengthening agents, e.g. carbon fibers.
Constellation: A group of stars that make a shape, often named after mythological characters, people, animals, and things.
Control rocket: A vernier or other rocket used to control the attitude of, or slightly change the speed of, a spacecraft.
Coolant: A medium, usually a fluid, which transfers heat from a object.
Core: The innermost layer of a planet or star.
Coreolis effect: Dizziness or nausea experienced when an astronaut in a spinning spacecraft moves his head in the opposite direction.
Corona: The Sun's outer layer. The corona's changing appearance reflects changing solar activity.
Coronal mass ejection : A huge cloud of hot plasma, expelled sometimes from the Sun. It may accelerate ions and electrons, and may travel through interplanetary space as far as the Earth's orbit and beyond it, often preceded by a shock front. When the shock reaches Earth, a magnetic storm may result.
Cosmic ray: An extremely energetic (relativistic) charged particle.
Cosmic year: The time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the galaxy, approximately 225 million years.
Cosmonaut: The Russian term for an astronaut. A space traveler.
COSPAR: The Committee on Space Research (established October 195.
Countdown: A count in inverse numerical order, in hours, minutes and finally seconds, of time remaining before the launch of a rocket.
Crater: A round impression left in a planet or satellite from a meteoroid.
Crust: The outer layer of Earth and other terrestrial planets.
Cryogenic: A rocket fuel or oxidizer which is liquid only at very low temperatures, e.g. liquid hydrogen which has a boiling point of -217.2oC (-423oF).
CSA: Chinese Society of Astronautics.
CSAA: Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
CSM: Command/Service Module.
C-stoff: A rocket fuel used by Germany in World War II: 30% hydrazine hydrate, 57% methanol, 13% water with traces of potassium cuprocyanate. Used in conjunction with T-stoff oxidizer: 80% hydrogen peroxide with 1 to 2% oxiquinoline as a stabilizer.
Current: The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.
Cut-off: The action of stopping a process abruptly, such as shutting off the flow of propellant to a rocket engine.

 

D ...
Dark matter: A form of matter which has not been directly observed but whose existence has been deduced by it's gravitational effects.
Data reduction: Conversion of observed values into useful, ordered and simplified information.
DC: Direct Current.
Decay: The action of air drag upon an artificial satellite causing it to spiral back into the atmosphere, eventually to disintegrate or burn up.
Deceleration: Negative acceleration, slowing.
Declination: One of the coordinates, measured in degrees, used to designate the location of an object on the celestial sphere. Declination is a north-south value similar to latitude on Earth.
Decompression: The relief of pressure. Explosive decompression would occur if the cabin of a spacecraft was punctured in space.
Delta V: Difference or change in velocity.
Demodulation: To extract information from a modulated carrier wave.
Density: Amount of matter per unit volume.
Density Wave: A kind of wave induced in a flat plane of a resisting medium (such as the rings of Saturn) by gravitational forces, often assuming the form of a tightly wound spiral.
Descending node: The point at which an orbiting object or spacecraft, moving from north to south, crosses the plane of the equator.
Descent engine: The rocket used to power a spacecraft as it makes a controlled landing on the surface of a planet or moon.
Descent module: That part of a spacecraft that descends from orbit to the surface of a planet or moon.
DGLR: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (German Company for Air and Space Travel).
Digital computer: An electronic device for solving numerically a variety of problems.
Dipole: A compact source of magnetic force, with two magnetic poles. A bar magnet, coil or current loop, if their size is small, create a dipole field. The Earth's field, as a first approximation, also resembles that of a dipole.
Direct current: Electrical current flowing in one direction and substantially constant in value.
Direct sensing: Instruments that interact with phenomena in their immediate vicinity, and register characteristics of them.
Dish: A reflector for radio waves, usually a paraboloid.
Docking: The technique of connecting two or more spacecraft in space.
DoD: Department of Defense (USA).
DOF: Degrees Of Freedom.
Doppler effect: A phenomenon in which waves appear to compress as their source approaches the observer or stretch out as the source recedes from the observer.
Dose: A quantity of radiation delivered at a position. In the context of space energetic particle radiation effects, it usually refers to the energy absorbed locally per unit mass as a result of radiation exposure.
Dose equivalent: A dose normally applied to biological effects and including scaling factors to account for the more severe effects of certain kinds of radiation.
Downlink: The radio signal transmitted from a spacecraft to Earth.
Drag: The resistance offered by a gas or liquid to a body moving through it.
Drogue: A small parachute used to slow and stabilize a spacecraft returning to the atmosphere, usually preceding deployment of a main landing parachute.
DSN: Deep Space Network.
Dust: Particulates which have a direct relation to a specific solar system body and which are usually found close to the surface of this body (e.g. Lunar, Martian or Cometary dust).
Dust detector: A device for measuring the velocity, mass, charge, flight direction and number of dust particles striking the instrument.
Dynamo process: The generation of an electric currents by the flow of an electrically conducting fluid through a magnetic field. For instance, the magnetic field originating inside the Earth is believed to come from a dynamo process involving the flow of molten iron in the Earth's hot core. The energy required by the current is obtained from the motion of the flow.
Dyne: A unit of force equal to the force required to accelerate a 1 g mass 1 cm per square second.

 

E ...
Earth: Third planet from the Sun, a terrestrial planet.
Earth radius: The average radius of the Earth, a convenient unit of distance in describing phenomena and orbits in the Earth's neighborhood in space. 1 RE = 6371.2 km approximately.
Earth-sensor: A light-sensitive diode which seeks the direction of Earth and then informs the attitude control system of a spacecraft.
Eccentric: Noncircular; elliptical (applied to an orbit).
Eccentricity: The amount of separation between the two foci of an ellipse and, hence, the degree to which an elliptical orbit deviates from a circular shape.
Eclipse: The obscuring of one celestial body by the passage of another in front of it.
Ecliptic: The great circle on the celestial sphere which traces the path of the Sun during the year.
ECM: Electromagnetic Countermeasures.
EDT: Eastern Daylight Time.
Ejection seat: A seat fitted with an explosive charge and designed to eject the occupant clear of an aircraft during an in-flight emergency.
ELDO: European Launcher Development Organization.
Electric propulsion: A form of rocket propulsion which depends on some form of electric acceleration of propellant to achieve low thrust over long periods of time. E.g. an ion or magnetohydrodynamic engine.
Electromagnetic: Relating to the interplay between electric and magnetic fields.
Electromagnetic waves: A wave propagated through space by simultaneous periodic variation in the electric and magnetic field intensity at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation. The electromagnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, gamma rays and cosmic rays.
Elevation: The angular measure of the height of an object above the horizon; with azimuth, one of the coordinates defining celestial location and sometimes used in tracking spacecraft.
ELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle.
EMU: Extravehicular Mobility Unit.
Energetic particle: Particles that can penetrate outer surfaces of spacecraft. For electrons, this is typically above 100 keV, while for protons and other ions this is above 1 Mev. Neutrons, gamma-rays and X-rays are also considered energetic particles in this context.
Engine: In spacecraft, a rocket or thruster that burns liquid propellants and can be throttled to adjust thrust.
EOL: End Of Life.
Ephemeris: Table of predicted positions of bodies in the solar system.
Ephemeris time: A measurement of time defined by orbital motions. Equates to Mean Solar Time corrected for irregularities in Earth's motions.
Epoch: An instant in time that is arbitrarily selected as a point of reference, e.g. for a set of orbital elements.
Equator: An imaginary circle around a body which is everywhere equidistant from the poles, defining the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres.
Equatorial orbit: An orbit in the plane of the equator.
ESA: European Space Agency.
Escape tower: A rocket-powered framework designed to separate spacecraft modules from their booster rockets in case of accident. Escape towers are mounted atop the spacecraft and jettisoned after launch.
Escape velocity: The precise velocity necessary to escape from a given point in a gravitational field. A body in a parabolic orbit has escape velocity at any point in that orbit. The velocity necessary to escape from the Earth's surface is 6.95 miles/sec. (11.2 km/sec.).
ESMC: Eastern Space and Missile Center.
EST: Eastern Standard Time.
Eurospace: Non-profit-making industrial association with headquarters in Paris (founded September 1961).
EVA: Extravehicular Activity.
Exhaust velocity: The velocity of the exhaust leaving the nozzle of a rocket.
Exosphere: The part of the Earth atmosphere above the thermosphere which extends into space. H and He atoms can attain escape velocities at the outer rim of the exosphere.
Extravehicular activity: Action performed by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a vehicle in space; a spacewalk.




F ...
Fairing: A structure whose main function is to streamline and smooth the surface of an aircraft or space vehicle..
Fault: A crack or break in the crust of a planet along which slippage or movement can take place.
Fault protection: Algorithms, which reside in a spacecraft's subsystems, that insure the ability of the spacecraft to both prevent a mishap and to reestablish contact with Earth if a mishap occurs and contact is interrupted.
Ferret: Satellite using electromagnetic surveillance techniques.
Fission: The release of energy through splitting atoms.
Fluorescence: The phenomenon of emitting light upon absorbing radiation of an invisible wavelength.
Flux: The amount of radiation crossing a surface per unit of time, often expressed in "integral form" as particles per unit area per unit time.
Flyby: Space flight past a heavenly body without orbiting.
Flyby spacecraft: A spacecraft which follows a continuous trajectory past a target object, never to be captured into an orbit. It must carry instruments that are capable of observing passing targets by compensating for the target's apparent motion.
FOBS: Fractional Orbit Bombardment System. A Soviet method of delivering a warhead from partial satellite orbit and thus approaching from any direction.
Force: A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application.
Forward scattering: Reflecting light approximately away from the source.
FOV: Field Of View.
Free-fall: The motion of any unpowered body moving in a gravitational field.
Free-return trajectory: Path of a spacecraft that provides for a return to Earth.
Frequency: The number of oscillations per second of an electromagnetic (or other) wave.
Fuel: A substance that when combined with an oxidizer burns to produce thrust in rockets.
Fuel cell: A cell in which chemical reaction is used directly to produce electricity.
Fussion: The release of nuclear energy through the uniting of atoms.
FY: Fiscal Year.

Break for Now, until these get checked by Captain and other crew members and I get their comments about how its been done.

 

I think I just went blind! I hope I'm not the only person that has read all those.

I'm impressed again. But some say that I'm easily impressed, or is that easily amused?

Hey, and I was in the idee song by Beetlejuice. Cool! Nice one, and the talent is showing.

So, is there a security officer yet?

 

Those look really good sub. When you get to the O's, don't forget this one:

Oh Sh!t: An exclamation of fear when something bad is occuring or about to occur.

 

and... is that related to the looong and never-ending glossary of mine OR our journey to Mars

 

Well I hope not, but you never know.