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I am wondering if anybody has any experience with MASM, especially attempting to run it on any DOS running within a virtual machine. I am trying to create an easy platform for Linux and Mac students in my class in order to learn ASM without the need for Windows (grader will only test our project assignments in MASM).

http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2
I had attempted to run MASM on FreeDOS running on the Bochs Pentium Emulator in Linux, but it crashed. You can read about these problems at this address.

I am not fully understanding about the capabilities of MASM in FreeDOS, especially within a Bochs environment. I suspect that Bochs or FreeDOS cannot support some features that MASM needs, or some of the coding requirements needed for my class this semester. I realize this question is a bit vague, though I would appreciate any insight into these problems.

Alternatively, would there be any other 99.9%+ MASM compatible assembler that is free or Linux based? What problems may I run into with the other assemblers?

Somebody else had mentioned trying DRDOS because that has become free (beer or speech?). Does anyone have any experience with DRDOS and MASM instead? Where can I get this?

Thanks,
Warren Togami
warren@togami.com
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
http://www.mplug.org

p.s.
http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/bochs_win98_inst all.php
Here's one cool though unrelated screenshot of Bochs running the Win98 Installer in Linux. Bochs isn't nearly as fast or stable as VMWare, but it is free and Open Source, and runs on other platforms like PowerPC.

>and did you see any wreckage of a plane at the >pentagon in any of the photos taken ? cockpit ? >wing ? fuselage ?

Yep, I have. Pictures of plane wreckage at the pentagon

the planes of atoms in the Martian magnetites are aligned with atomic planes in the carbonate in which the magnetites are embedded. This shows that the magnetites formed in the rock and not inside microorganisms

Wasn't there a recent story here about developing a multiple-mirrored telescope to allow high resoultion images of deep space? Some of the discussion even mentioned the notion of placing individual mirror elements in different places around the world to help improve resolution. Such a scope is harder to use than a single curved mirror (despite the cost savings) due to image distortion. I would think this kind of technology would be perfect for something like that...

Not really, unfortunately. You're thinking of interferometry or aperture synthesis, which can also be done with light.

This requires knowledge of the phase of the light rather than just its amplitude or power, which is all you get from normal video cameras. Also, interferometry increases your resolution but not your field of view, i.e. it's closest to the part of the article about zooming in, not panning around. To use the technique in the article you'd have to build bigger telescopes to get the improved resolution, which is what astronomers try to do anyway.

If you're talking about combining lots of images from the same vantage point in order to improve your field of view, astronomers do this mosaicing all the time. For some of my work on the Galactic Centre I was using an instrument with a small field of view (a thirtieth of a degree), and I had to pan the telescope as well as stitch multiple observations together to get the full map which was still only a few degrees across (the size of a few full moons).

Read about it in the RELEASE-NOTES
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Combining telescopes in the optical domain (frequency ~10^14 Hz) is only possible by correlating in the optical domain with an interferometer. This means you need optical delay-lines (VLTI) of maximum some hundred meters or fibers (OHANA) of maximum a few kilometers.

The full quote:
Next was the USB Keyboard. This was packaged in a yellow cardboard box. Upon opening it, it appears as a standard black keyboard, but on closer inspection you find that the Windows keys are missing. In their place were keys with diamonds on them. I guess Sony is making a point that Microsoft is not their friend. Also diamonds kind of go with the schema of circle, square, triangle, and cross that's found on the Playstation controller.

This is tiny, irrelivant, and unimportant, but i just thought everyone might want to know: the choice of diamonds was not arbitrary. The diamond keys are standard for Sun keyboards-- they have a bunch of Sun hardware up at my college, and they all have little diamond keys on them. They act kind of like the command key on a macintosh, for example Netscape4/Solaris is wired so that diamond-N opens a new window instead of alt-N or whatever it is in linux.
((I can't remember, it's been awhile since i've used X in linux except remotely or in my incorrectly-xmodmapped linux/PPC install ::grin:: stupid delete key..))

According to this page, the diamond keys also act as "meta" keys-- that is to say, every time in EMACS that you have one of those special commands that you have to call by pressing ESC and then another key, you can just hold down "meta" and press the key instead. Useful ((If you like EMACS, that is... ^_^))

So this was actually a consious choice by Sony to be more UNIXy, not just Sony being anti-MS.

Does anyone know, if you plug a Sun/Playstation keyboard into a macintosh, does the diamond key act as a command key?

In fact one volcanic eruption in south america in the early 90's spewed about 10 times as much chlorine into the upper atmosphere as all the industrial chemicals user in human history!

I believe you are referring to Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines. See this link for a discussion of volcanic chlorine emissions, in particular, why CFC's may have a stronger effect on stratospheric ozone. I'd like to see a source for your figure of 2 orders of magnitude.

Certain economists had a running joke about classifying the Philippines as a Latin American country during the Asian economic boom of the 80's and early 90's, and as an Asian country during the Latin American boom (and the corresponding Asian crisis) a few years ago. Given the recent financial situation in Argentina, your geographic mistake is understandable.

Other solution: double up on observations. Different recievers can be attached to a telescope. IR, ultra-violet and visible can be observed at the same time.

Not easily: much of the UV window is very strongly absorbed by the atmosphere, so you can't use it from ground-based telescopes anyway and have to use spacecraft. It's also not so easy to observe two wavelengths at once: you need a lot of complicated optics, and you don't want to waste any of those precious photons. In addition, if the wavelengths are very different, you could have very different design requirements on the rest of the telescope.

So why not double up one projects that are located in the same space in the sky.

They'd have to be really close in the sky. It works for some projects where you're looking at a sample of objects in a patch of sky, like the Hubble Deep Field. However, for many instruments on telescopes like the Keck and Subaru, the field of view is less than 30 arcminutes, which is only the angular diameter of the full moon. Also, the instrument and observing mode you use are strongly dependent on exactly what sort of object you are investigating, and how, and may not be suitable for anything else that happens to be in the field of view.

Also, with image enhancement, you can look at a wider section of sky and view multiple objects, while using computers to examen your specific project.

Image processing and general number-crunching are essential to astronomers already, in order to transform raw data into a final image ("data reduction"). I spent the majority of my Ph.D. working on ways to process a particular type of data, so we're already doing what we can. :-)

Essentially, research-class telescopes are all oversubscribed, and so people tend to make whatever optimisations they can already.

These wavelengths have the rather ungainly "millimeter and submillimeter" label. There's "far-infrared" at about 100 microns, and this regime runs from there out to, well, about a millimeter. :-)

I am an astronomer who works with submillimeter wavelengths at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). In this regime, we're really at the boundary between optics and radio. You can almost think of it as the boundary between whether you treat light as a wave or as a particle.

Some of our astronomical instruments are radio-style "heterodyne" receivers which treat the light as a wave and produce spectral line information (telling you what molecules are out there and what they're doing). It's a bit like sweeping a radio dial through a range of frequencies and marking the signal strength of all the stations.

Other detectors treat the light much more as a particle, just measuring the total amount of radiation falling onto a pixel. On the JCMT we have such an instrument called SCUBA (the Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array). They're analogous to the CCDs used at optical and infrared wavelengths. I'm guessing that the work mentioned in the article refers to detectors of this type, but I could of course be wrong. :-)

Telescopes like the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) have been using these THz waves to do astronomical research for about 15 years.

THz waves are in the millimeter/submillimeter regime of the electromagnetic spectrum, placing them between the far-infrared and the radio.

Just like we use infrared light to look at things which are at roughly room temperature, we use submillimeter light - with wavelengths about 10 times longer - to look at things which are about ten times cooler, down to a few tens of Kelvin above absolute zero.

This includes solar system bodies, comets, and clouds of interstellar gas and dust - the birthplaces of new stars. Just like in the articles, we can use submillimeter waves to see through things that entirely block visible (optical) light.

We (the intelligent life) are here and not on another planet because this planet is uniquely suited to us.

An elegant statement of the Weak Anthropic principle.

FWIW my current worldview is

• Life "as we know it" is a lot more common in our region than we think. Due to exobiology as per the Hoyle Wickramasinghe hypothesis. Even if the hypothesis is wrong and life requires a clay matrix to develop DNA, and even though the latest news on Martian Meteors looks like they didn't contain fossil bugs, the mechanism for propagating life pretty much anywhere near where it develops is sound. Bacteria are hardy beasts, and can survive in space quite well. With the latest news on the water on Mars, the odds of life there approach certainty.
• That's the good news. The Bad news is that the step from procaryotes to eucaryotes, that is, going from single-cell to multi-celled organisms is a big one, and probably only a fraction of one percent of life origins ever make it.
• But it's worse than that. Technology requires colonies of multicellular organisms. These can be as complex as as the Portugese Man-O-War which although it looks like a jellyfish is actually a colony of 4 different polyps, more like a multi-species anthill or coral reef than anything else. Or they can be as simple as the US Congress, an organism whose intellect is less than any of its constituent members. In any case, some multicellular genusses may remain in pre-school, and never develop anything as complex as an ant farm. The development of such complexity may require a stable double-planet system, rare as hen's teeth. Earth and its moon would be considered a double planet system if we didn't live on one of em.
• It's worse still. The Dinosaurs were terrifically successful for megayears, but had they landed on the Moon, we'd almost certainly know it. So it's possible to have complex organisms, complex societies (herds), but still no technology for Sagans. Closer to home, Dolphins are unlikely to ever develop a technology. You may need to periodocally hit the planetary reset button with a meteor or super-volcano. But not too hard - or you've got to rebuild from procaryotes again. And not too soft, you only have a limited amount of time before the star you're around goes Ploof.
• Finally, there's the "Goldilocks Zone" that's the subject of the original article. Star too close to galactic centre = bad. Star too far out = bad. And then within that torus, star in spiral arm centre = bad. Don't be too near a supernova. So the quicker you can develop a multi-stellar population, the better. Which reduces the odds even further.

Though we could start right now with Chimpanzees and Gorillas. They'd be considered primitive but undoubtedly intelligent species if they came from another planet. History will judge us harshly if we don't start granting sub-human rights to sub-humans.

Which means that we'd better get our ethics up to scratch.

come on dude... democracy is just as bad as any other system ever created

Yo, dude, your wrong...

This link has a lot of interesting data and reading within it that go a long way to prove just how wrong 'dudes' like you are. Democracy is, in fact, hands-down the most human-friendly political system in existence, bar none.

The worst atrocities we as a democracy have inflictied upon others (American Indians included) are sadly almost trivial compared to the mammoth-scale slaughters totalitarian governments routinely inflict upon their own.

You've been soaking in it (democracy) from day one of course, so you can't picture life otherwise. A cop shuts down your late-night double kegger and you think you want to start a Revolution to overthrow the Man. Good luck to you. You have a lot to learn.

That's its *name*. Look: CFHT.

This was the number one hit on Google for 'canada france hawaii'. Do a bit of research on the telescopes you're posting about, before you just generalize!

The story on space.com has more details on this.
Also see the offical offical press release from University of Hawaii.

From the Top-10 Lines for Jedi Master Mace Windu:

#1. Hand me my lightsaber... it's the one that says, "Bad Motherfucker" on it.

20th century democide. Note the plethora of socialist countries and lack of capitalist countries among the top murderers.

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"There are only two things that have come out of Berkeley; LSD and Unix. And that's NOT a coincidence!"
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LSD was discovered in Basel/Switzerland.
What about Steve Vai?
Which Unix do you refer to?
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I ack your points on the subject though.

This past summer I had my jaw broken and I had to go get surgery done. I had my jaw wired shut for like 5 weeks, but it wasnt healing right. So the doctor said he needed to do more surgery. So, I ended up getting 2 Ti plates in my jaw. This made it so i would not have any problems later in life and force the jaw to heal correctly aligned. If you want to check out a picture of my jaw with the 2 plates (you can also see the break, so its pretty cool) go here

I use GMT and USGS data to make topo maps for my GPS. I get the data from my Garmin eTrex Venture with GPSMan.

It's all free, but takes some work. See my page of details and examples.

I am a student at UH, the wireless is pretty good, but still has some problems. I wasn't able to use it, I think it was due to the encyption. Also the building where the ICS labs are on the 3rd floor there is also wirless thanks to ANCL See UH isnt just good for cloning mice

UH has boatloads of connectivity, check out thier traffic grpahs, hardly even used
http://thundarr.its.hawaii.edu/traffic/index.html

Looks like the pricing is only going to be 24.95 a month for ISDN speeds up to $99.99 for 1 Mb. Doesn't seem like all that bad a deal.

Keck's been capable of "beating" Hubble for a good long while now. Adaptive Optics is wild and crazy stuff.

Please don't believe that we'll be able to do away with space-based observing because of this innovation. Our atmosphere absorbs an awful lot of interesting wavelengths.

... Overlooking the fact that "the US" is not a volitional entity, how long will it be before "the US" bankrupts itself with the various inefficient security measures it is persuing?

Government Trap #8: The belief that government can conjure up resources from thin air. Everything government has, was essentially stolen at the point of a gun.

suicide: The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
Democide: death by government

Things cannot continue forever the way they are, the laws of economics will not permit it.

The US is well on its way to writing itself out of the rest of the world, and whatever they believe they can't survive alone!

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here, but if it's something along the lines of "'the US' seems to like shooting itself too much to go on being the bully for much longer", I'd have to agree.

The paper and more can be found here

Since version 4.0x, Netscape Communicator for Windows provides a conduit to synchronize the Palm address book with communicator's one. This utility is nsabppin.exe, and can be found in the directory Communicator/Program where Netscape is installed.
See here for details.

No, it's the Chinese government's way of life. The people don't exactly have a choice.

The people may not have a choice, but be careful when you say that the Chinese people don't support what the government is doing. There are a billion Chinese people. Telling a Chinese girl that she's "one in a million" is like telling her that there are 1,000 girls that look just like her.

When half a million students go downtown and shout angry slogans and act up, that's one half of one percent of one percent of their population. That's an insignifigant little piece of dirt. And believe it or not, a good majority of that billion people, the truly "Silent Majority" in China, watched those kids get run over by tanks with the same satisfaction we reserve for watching the Klu Klux Klan get pegged with glass bottles on T.V.

China is extremely conservative. That's what happens when your survive the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when young people rose up, took control, killed all the skilled doctors, lawyers and artisans, and ran loose across the countryside committing mass murder. The Chinese people on the whole have had enough radical change for two lifetimes. They are a product of their history, just like us.

A lot of Chinese Americans I know roll their eyes when they hear about the "Concert(s) for Tibetan Freedom". Held in stadiums on the very land from which we marched millions of Native Americans across the Trail of Tears to their death, it seems to them to be at best hypocritical and at worst pure vanity on our part to assume that the Chinese government is so very different from our own.

Be careful throwing stones on behalf of the Chinese. They are a proud and strong culture, they outnumber us, they have seen wars so terrible that our country can only imagine. They have had tiny revolutions that lasted longer than our entire country has been in existence.

I'm not approving the action; I'm saying you should weigh your opinion and your ignorance together carefully first.

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In the 20th Century, governments literally decimated the world population - murdering the equivalent of one out of every ten people alive at the beginning of the century. That doesn't count soldiers killed on the field of war: just murder - terrorism by government - civilians killed in concentration camps and carpet bombings and starvation-by-policy and the like. (ref.)

Avoid the temptation to respond to this comparatively amateurish terrorism and murder by demanding more power for governments.

As for NASA having artists on the payroll, you can see some examples of just this sort of thing when the NASA Art Train comes to a town near you. You might even recognize a few of the artists in the exhibition (scroll down past the sponsors' names).

Extradition requires a treaty. Relations between the U.S. and the Russian Federation are still rather minimal.

Here's a quick summary from a fairly interesting page:

The executive agreement on cooperation in criminal law matters, signed in 1995, provides for assistance in cases involving narcotics violations, as well as money laundering cases. In July 1998, the DEA and the MVD signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on counternarcotics cooperation. A 1995 MOU between the Russian federal border service and the U.S. Coast Guard includes provisions for maritime drug interdiction. There is no extradition treaty in force between Russia and the United States. Russia is a party to the WCO's international convention on mutual administrative assistance for the prevention, investigation, and repression of customs offenses "Nairobi Convention" annex on assistance in narcotics cases. A U.S.-Russia Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) is in force.

emphasis is added. basically if he gets to Russia, he's free.

incidentally, I couldn't find the actual text of the agreement. its citation is:

Agreement on cooperation in criminal law matters, with annex. Signed at Moscow June 30, 1995; entered into force February 5, 1996.
TIAS 12674.

anybody with WestLaw here? or, for hardcopy, it costs a little over a buck to order the treaty here.

According to this link, Pluto and Charon are (were?) considered to be the largest of the objects in the Kuiper Belt. There's actually many objects in this belt and more information can be found here and here. And, IMO, the best site for information about this, and the most complete is this site at NASA.

This suggests that Pluto and Charon are simply bodies within another asteriod belt and shouldn't have been classified as planets. And thus we shouldn't make the mistake of classifying this, too, as a planet, even though it is larger.

Actually GMT has been around for several years, runs fine on Linux, and is GPL. It includes very detailed coastline data, as well as other geographic data, including political boundaries. A very useful source of freely usable maps. All in all, a really impressive product. I've been using it for a couple of years now.

Other stuff we'd mine from the Moon because for use in space because it's much easier to get things to space from the Moon than from Earth. There's plenty of aluminum and titanium, both of which we already use in space. And there are a lot of oxides.

Clementine data shows where there are iron deposits, of up to 20% iron oxide. That's a low-grade taconite, although the processing techniques used on Earth would probably have to be modified for lunar gravity. Northern Minnesota has been mining taconite for a while. I don't know how hard it will be to find all the ingredients for steel on the Moon.

New Lunar Prospector studies suggest that the Clementine data is correct in location, but might be overestimating the abundance. Well, if we want to mine we'll be doing more prospecting -- at least we have LP maps and Clementine maps.

Dang, no broadband!

Of course, you do need to bring 18 months of consumables with you to get to mars in the first place + time to see if you can even get what you need there to survive. We reached the moon by the skin of our teeth. It cost us a large percentage of the GDP for ten years to get there; it was too expensive. There was no reason for it, then.

As you said, there's "nothing interesting to anybody except geologists". Well, that is why we would go back. Minerals.

The most abundant element is oxygen, accounting for about 58% of the atoms present. Most of the oxygen is chemically united with silicon, next most abundant, and accounting for about 20% of the atoms. Also abundant are aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, titanium rich compounds and other elements that are abundant in the earth's crust.

Exploration of the Universe, George O. Abell

The moons gravity is only 0.165 that of the earth. Getting things into orbit there would be very cheap. A mass driver would do it pretty well.

Supporting life on the moon is a pain in the ass. No air, no water,

Actually, you're wrong. Water was found on the moon on March 5, 1998. Where the hell were you? Also here and here.

Get yer facts straight, big guy.

This JPL page on Lunar In-Situ resource utilization seems to be the best of the lot.

-tarkas

Damn good thing, that. Mao's "Great Leap Forward" caused the biggest famine in human history; he presided over a laogai system which claimed well over 10 million lives; and his "Cultural Revolution" also murdered over 10 million people. Moreover he helped instigate the death and enslavement of millions of Koreans in order to expand communism's influence. Tens of millions fled in desparation to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and even the US. Good riddance to the bloodiest tyrant ever, Mao Tse-Tung.

The capitalist roaders in the party that Mao called upon the masses to overthrow did exactly as he warned they would when they came to power (after his death in 1976)

Yeah, they put a lid on all the dying and suffering, and the living standard in China is finally rising steadily now that they're somewhat less communist.

In light of the tens of millions of victims of Chinese communism, I declare that you, P30P73Z-H4X0R are one sick and twisted individual for defending history's most prolific[*]mass murderer, Mao. You are a complete shame an d disgrace.

(It's not a flame if it's completely true.)

[*] or possibly the second most prolific mass murderer.

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GMT, the Generic Mapping Tool perhaps. The page does mention quite an assortment of processing possibilities, including 3-D coordinates and surface rendering.

For more info, see:

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/hcv.html

Ground based Adaptive Optics currently does not produce very many pretty pictures. There are basically a number of technical reasons why, some of which will be ironed out in the short term and some of which will take a long time to solve (and involve things like batteries of lasers, which makes me think I will stop doing astronomy and start doing laser engineering if I am not careful.)

Anyway, for a cool adaptive optics astro pic done by people where I work, look here for Neptune and here for the moons of Jupiter. For some stars, and other cool stuff, check out this image of the galactic center.

Stars and planets are much easier with adaptive optics than are galaxies, though my housemate does galaxies wtih AO, because whenever you correct for atmospheric distortion, you never do a perfect job. The part of the beam of light that is not corrected can throw light all over your image. This means, if your object is not bright, a bright nearby thing could swamped it. And, in order to get adaptive optics to work, you have to have a bright nearby object to correct your image with. The solution is better adaptive optics systems, so for the mean time, Hubble will continue to surpass ground telescopes for image quality.

Ground based Adaptive Optics currently does not produce very many pretty pictures. There are basically a number of technical reasons why, some of which will be ironed out in the short term and some of which will take a long time to solve (and involve things like batteries of lasers, which makes me think I will stop doing astronomy and start doing laser engineering if I am not careful.)

Anyway, for a cool adaptive optics astro pic done by people where I work, look here for Neptune and here for the moons of Jupiter. For some stars, and other cool stuff, check out this image of the galactic center.

Stars and planets are much easier with adaptive optics than are galaxies, though my housemate does galaxies wtih AO, because whenever you correct for atmospheric distortion, you never do a perfect job. The part of the beam of light that is not corrected can throw light all over your image. This means, if your object is not bright, a bright nearby thing could swamped it. And, in order to get adaptive optics to work, you have to have a bright nearby object to correct your image with. The solution is better adaptive optics systems, so for the mean time, Hubble will continue to surpass ground telescopes for image quality.

There exists a package of programs for producing maps and charts in PostScript using an entirely command-line interface (GMT). Currently, the package is installed by default as a number of executables, along with man pages for each. However, it was recently discovered that the names of the executables conflict with other names of executables in another package.

One proposed solution was to change the interface so that every command is instead run as "gmt cmdname options" (like CVS). The immediate deficiency with this is that how to organize man pages is no longer obvious (the man page for each command was already quite long enough---we don't want a huge result to "man gmt"). Leaving the man pages the way they are is not an option---the names could still conflict with man pages for other packages. This is, of course, easily solved by info or HTML.

Any alternative solutions?

This page shows that Jupiter's moon Amalthea is tidally locked.

This page discusses the case of Mercury, which as I said isn't yet tidally locked but does have a day tidally related to its year. "Although Mercury is not tidally locked to the Sun, its rotational period is tidally coupled to its orbital period. Mercury rotates one and a half times during each orbit."

This page states that all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons are tidally locked.

That took about 5 minutes. Altavista found a total of 499 pages containing the phrase "tidally locked."

Ah, you know it as "Hotaru no Haka". So sad... Poor Seita & Setsuko! ;_;

That said, The University of Hawaii's MSCS is open to non-CS bacchalaureates with a working knowledge of C or Pascal, provided you make up your undergraduate deficiencies (to the tune of about 18-24 credits, IIRC). But I'd definitely find out if I had a inclination towards CS before I jumped into an MS program, if I were you (if, of course, you haven't).

More information about this can be found here http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/pods/.

Hacking the 802.11 protocol for peer-to-peer passing of packets is very useful in this situation because this alleviates the need for extremely powerful antennae to be setup and pointed to many sensor stations scattered across a forest. Instead the pods are all within reach of another and packets are passed back towards the home station. Nifty.

Check out the pictures of these pods on the site. Each station is custom made to blend in to the surroundings, looking like a dead log, or a lava rock or something.

All these archives are searchable from the web site, and (if you've registered with them) available for download. Images from HST and CADC are restricted to only the primary researcher(s) for a period of time (I think it's a year).

All these archives are searchable from the web site, and (if you've registered with them) available for download. Images from HST and CADC are restricted to only the primary researcher(s) for a period of time (I think it's a year).