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Apollo 12 lunar photography, NSSDC ID no. 69-099A-01

Information on the complete set of Apollo 12 photographs is presented to aid the investigator in the selection and interpretation of photographs. Film type and size, magazine, frame numbers, and identifying remarks are given for the 70-mm coverage, S-158 multispectral coverage, 16-mm coverage, and 35-mm stereo coverage. Background information on mission objectives, photographic equipment, and photographic coverage and quality is included.

Anderson, A. T.↗

Data user's note: Mariner 6 and 7 photographic data (NSSDC ID no. 69-014A-01 and 69-030A-01

The availability and assistance in the use of the complete set of Mariner 6 and 7 (1969 14A and 1969 20A) pictorial data are announced. The announcement describes the photographic mission of these Mariner spacecrafts, the television camera system, and the photographs that are available from the National Space Data Center. Two appendixes are included: one is a photographic catalog of all enhanced photographs, designated the maximum discriminability photographs; the other is a series of computer produced graphics that are useful in detailed analysis of the photographs.

Anderson, A. T.↗

Earth Resources Technology Satellite: Cumulative US standard catalog, 23 July 1972 - 23 July 1973. Volume 1: Observation ID listing

Observation identification and coordinate listing are given for ERTS 1 images collected over the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from July 23, 1972 to July 23, 1973. Data format includes the following: (1) the date of catalog listing; (2) the time frame during which the imagery was processed; (3) an assigned observation number; (4) microfilm role and image position on roll; (5) date of observation; (6) longitude and latitude in degrees and minutes at observation center; (7) estimated percent of cloud cover; (8) orbit number; (9) sun elevation and azimuth at observation center; and (10) image quality for both the return beam vidicon and the multispectral band scanner. Availability information for microfilm copies of ERTS imagery is included.

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Earth Resources Technology Satellite. Cumulative non-US standard catalog, 23 July 1972 - 23 July 1973. Volume 1: Observation ID

A catalog containing data pertaining to the imagery acquired by the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) from its date of launch, July 23, 1972 through the first year of activity is presented. The catalog supersedes the previous catalog which supplied data available through May 1973. Two listings of the imagery are included: (1) an observation identifications listing and (2) a listing of the imagery based on geographical location, the coordinate listing.

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Improved reader for magnetically-encoded ID cards

Hybrid demodulator in electronic card reader for magnetically encoded identification cards, accommodates variations in insertion speeds, yet is simpler and less expensive than equivalent all-digital circuits.

Wu, T. T.↗

Current economic and sensitivity analysis for ID slicing of 4 inch and 6 inch diameter silicon ingots for photovoltaic applications

The economics and sensitivities of slicing large diameter silicon ingots for photovoltaic applications were examined. Current economics and slicing add on cost sensitivities are calculated using variable parameters for blade life, slicing yield, and slice cutting speed. It is indicated that cutting speed has the biggest impact on slicing add on cost, followed by slicing yield, and by blade life as the blade life increases.

Roberts, E. G.↗

ID slicing and the automated factory

The automation of the slicing system utilizing internal-diameter saws for the production of the silicon wafers used in solar arrays is discussed. It is argued that saw productivity can be increased by reducing silicon waste, decreasing usage of consumables, keeping the saw slicing, and increasing the cutting speed. Several machine enhancements utilizing automatic control are discussed. The need for record keeping to anticipate maintenance operations is noted, and a digital serial communication interface with the microprocessor-based saws is recommended. Distributed control of the manufacturing process is discussed in detail, and is recommended as a method for increasing productivity.

Lewandowski, T.↗

Exit chipping in ID sawing of silicon crystals

The processes involved in exit chipping which may occur in the internal diameter diamond sawing of silicon crystals were examined. An interpretation of chipping observations is given in terms of crack propagation as acted upon by the sawing stresses. Since the exit chips are roughly parallel to saw marks, the general locus of the crack must be determined by contact stresses although the exact locus depends on already existing subfractures located in the kerf region which are caused by more than one abrasive particle. The crack starts at either edge since these are weak areas in flexure. In the more extensive "saw fracture", the fracture plane often changes part-way across the slice to be other than parallel to the saw mark because the speed of the crack accelerates beyond the speed of the blade travel; i.e., outstrips the advance of the contact stress field. The influences of various external factors on the opening of the crack are divided into two types: factors that wedge the crack apart and those that bend the slice away from the crystal. From a consideration of these factors, conditions for minimizing exit chipping are defined.

Dyer, L. D.↗

Literacity: A multimedia adult literacy package combining NASA technology, recursive ID theory, and authentic instruction theory

An important part of NASA's mission involves the secondary application of its technologies in the public and private sectors. One current application under development is LiteraCity, a simulation-based instructional package for adults who do not have functional reading skills. Using fuzzy logic routines and other technologies developed by NASA's Information Systems Directorate and hypermedia sound, graphics, and animation technologies the project attempts to overcome the limited impact of adult literacy assessment and instruction by involving the adult in an interactive simulation of real-life literacy activities. The project uses a recursive instructional development model and authentic instruction theory. This paper describes one component of a project to design, develop, and produce a series of computer-based, multimedia instructional packages. The packages are being developed for use in adult literacy programs, particularly in correctional education centers. They use the concepts of authentic instruction and authentic assessment to guide development. All the packages to be developed are instructional simulations. The first is a simulation of 'finding a friend a job.'

Willis, Jerry↗

Remote Sensing of Urban Thermal Landscape Characteristics and Their Affects on Local and Regional Meteorology and Air Quality: An Overview of NASA EOS-IDS Project Atlanta

As an entity, the city is a manifestation of human "management" of the land. The act of city-building, however, drastically alters the biophysical environment, which ultimately, impacts local and regional land-atmosphere energy exchange processes. Because of the complexity of both the urban landscape and the attendant energy fluxes that result from urbanization, remote sensing offers the only real way to synoptically quantify these processes. One of the more important land-atmosphere fluxes that occurs over cities relates to the way that thermal energy is partitioned across the heterogeneous urban landscape. The individual land cover and surface material types that comprise the city, such as pavements and buildings, each have their own thermal energy regimes. As the collective urban landscape, the individual thermal energy responses from specific surfaces come together to form the urban heat island phenomena, which prevails as a dome of elevated air temperatures over cities. Although the urban heat island has been known to exist for well over 150 years, it is not understood how differences in thermal energy responses for land covers across the city interact to produce this phenomenon, or how the variability in thermal energy responses from different surface types drive its development. Additionally, it can be hypothesized that as cities grow in size through time, so do their urban heat islands. The interrelationships between urban sprawl and the respective growth of the urban heat island, however, have not been investigated. Moreover, little is known of the consequential effects of urban growth, land cover change, and the urban heat island as they impact local and regional meteorology and air quality.

Quattrochi, Dale A.↗

Small-scale Interstellar Structure Toward the Open Cluster Chi Persei; Program ID: BO29 (Cycle 2)

The primary objective of this program was to obtain FUSE observations of the interstellar H2 absorption toward six early-type stars in the core of the open star cluster Chi Persei. High resolution optical observations of the interstellar Na I absorption toward these stars and others in the core of Chi Per have revealed a rich variety of small-scale diffuse ISM structure in both the distant Perseus and more local Orion spiral arms. At the 1 arc minute angular scales typically probed by the separations of these stars, this structure corresponds to respective physical length scales of 0.6 and 0.15 pc in the Perseus and Orion arm gas. The principal scientific goal of the FUSE observations was to determine if this small-scale Na I structure toward the core of Chi Per was reflected in the abundance and/or excitation of interstellar H2. In September 2001, we obtained FUSE observations of the Chi Per stars BD +56 563, BD +56 571, BD +56 573, BD +56 574, BD +56 575, and BD +56 578 for this program. The data reveal that the Perseus arm gas exhibits significant small-scale variations in the strength of its molecular hydrogen absorption while the Orion arm H2 absorption is relatively uniform. We presented these results at the January 2003 American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, WA (points, Meyer, Lauroesch, Nguyen, and Friedman 2002, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34,1229). Since Na I is not a dominant ion in H I clouds, the variations detected in the Perseus arm Na I line profiles could be due to spatial differences in either the physical structure or the physical conditions in the gas. Although many of the H2 absorption profiles are too saturated or too weak to be definitive in this regard, it is clear that small-scale variations are present in H2 gas with excitation as high as the J=4 rotational level. In contrast, lower spatial resolution H I 21 cm studies of the Perseus arm gas across the face of the h and Chi Per double cluster have shown smoother, continuous variations on the larger scale. In order to investigate if the global velocity structure of H2 toward h and Chi Per more closely follows the chaotic structure seen in interstellar Na I absorption or the smoother, continuous H I structure, we have expanded our FUSE study with a Cycle 4 program (D902, PI: Points) to survey the H2 absorption toward a number of other stars across the face of the double cluster. We have obtained FUSE spectra of 14 additional h and Chi Per stars through this program and are now combining all of the data into a comprehensive study that will be submitted for publication next year.

Meyer, David M.↗

SpaceWire Protocol ID: What Does it Mean to You?

This document is a slide presentation reviewing the SpaceWire (SW) Protocol. The purpose of the presentation is to describe the latest work of the SW working group to promote upper level protocol standardization. The presentation also briefly describes the SW protocol.

Rakow, Glenn Parker↗