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On Earth, the functional stretch reflex is an important component in the maintenance of posture and muscle tone. In parabolic flight experiments, we evaluated whether the functional stretch reflex, as reflected in the tonic vibration reflex, adjusts appropriately for changes in background gravitoinertial force level. Virtually immediate alterations of appropriate sign occurred. 相似文献
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The boundary between ice and basalt on Earth is an analogue for some near-surface environments of Mars. We investigated neutrophilic iron-oxidizing microorganisms from the basalt-ice interface in a lava tube from the Oregon Cascades with perennial ice. One of the isolates (Pseudomonas sp. HerB) can use ferrous iron Fe(II) from the igneous mineral olivine as an electron donor and O(2) as an electron acceptor. The optimum growth temperature is ~12-14°C, but growth also occurs at 5°C. Bicarbonate is a facultative source of carbon. Growth of Pseudomonas sp. HerB as a chemolithotrophic iron oxidizer with olivine as the source of energy is favored in low O(2) conditions (e.g., 1.6% O(2)). Most likely, microbial oxidation of olivine near pH 7 requires low O(2) to offset the abiotic oxidation of iron. The metabolic capabilities of this bacterium would allow it to live in near-surface, icy, volcanic environments of Mars in the present or recent geological past and make this type of physiology a prime candidate in the search for life on Mars. 相似文献
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H. Kunow M.A. Lee L.A. Fisk R.J. Forsyth B. Heber T.S. Horbury E. Keppler J. Kóta Y.-Q. Lou R.B. McKibben C. Paizis M.S. Potgieter E.C. Roelof T.R. Sanderson G.M. Simnett R. Von Steiger B.T. Tsurutani R.F. Wimmer-Schweingruber J.R. Jokipii 《Space Science Reviews》1999,89(1-2):221-268
Ulysses observed a stable strong CIR from early 1992 through 1994 during its first journey into the southern hemisphere. After
the rapid latitude scan in early 1995, Ulysses observed a weaker CIR from early 1996 to mid-1997 in the northern hemisphere
as it traveled back to the ecliptic at the orbit of Jupiter. These two CIRs are the observational basis of the investigation
into the latitudinal structure of CIRs. The first CIR was caused by an extension of the northern coronal hole into the southern
hemisphere during declining solar activity, whereas the second CIR near solar minimum activity was caused by small warps in
the streamer belt. The latitudinal structure is described through the presentation of three 26-day periods during the southern
CIR. The first at ∼24°S shows the full plasma interaction region including fast and slow wind streams, the compressed shocked
flows with embedded stream interface and heliospheric current sheet (HCS), and the forward and reverse shocks with associated
accelerated ions and electrons. The second at 40°S exhibits only the reverse shock, accelerated particles, and the 26-day
modulation of cosmic rays. The third at 60°S shows only the accelerated particles and modulated cosmic rays. The possible
mechanisms for the access of the accelerated particles and the CIR-modulated cosmic rays to high latitudes above the plasma
interaction region are presented. They include direct magnetic field connection across latitude due to stochastic field line
weaving or to systematic weaving caused by solar differential rotation combined with non-radial expansion of the fast wind.
Another possible mechanism is particle diffusion across the average magnetic field, which includes stochastic field line weaving.
A constraint on connection to a distant portion of the CIR is energy loss in the solar wind, which is substantial for the
relatively slow-moving accelerated ions. Finally, the weaker northern CIR is compared with the southern CIR. It is weak because
the inclination of the streamer belt and HCS decreased as Ulysses traveled to lower latitudes so that the spacecraft remained
at about the maximum latitudinal extent of the HCS.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Iron-magnesium silicate bioweathering on Earth (and Mars?) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We examined the common, iron-magnesium silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene in basalt and in mantle rocks to determine if they exhibit textures similar to bioweathering textures found in glass. Our results show that weathering in olivine may occur as long, narrow tunnels (1-3 microm in diameter and up to 100 microm long) and as larger irregular galleries, both of which have distinctive characteristics consistent with biological activity. These weathering textures are associated with clay mineral by-products and nucleic acids. We also examined olivine and pyroxene in martian meteorites, some of which experienced preterrestrial aqueous alteration. Some olivines and pyroxenes in the martian meteorite Nakhla were found to contain tunnels that are similar in size and shape to tunnels in terrestrial iron-magnesium silicates that contain nucleic acids. Though the tunnels found in Nakhla are similar to the biosignatures found in terrestrial minerals, their presence cannot be used to prove that the martian alteration features had a biogenic origin. The abundance and wide distribution of olivine and pyroxene on Earth and in the Solar System make bioweathering features in these minerals potentially important new biosignatures that may play a significant role in evaluating whether life ever existed on Mars. 相似文献
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M. Scholer G. Mann S. Chalov M.I. Desai L.A. Fisk J.R. Jokipii R. Kallenbach E. Keppler J. Kóta H. Kunow M.A. Lee T.R. Sanderson G.M. Simnett 《Space Science Reviews》1999,89(1-2):369-399
On the basis of the observational picture established in the report of Mason, von Steiger et al. (1999) the status of theoretical models on origin, injection, and acceleration of particles associated with Corotating Interaction
Regions (CIRs) is reviewed. This includes diffusive or first-order Fermi acceleration at oblique shocks, adiabatic deceleration
in the solar wind, stochastic acceleration in Alfvén waves and oblique propagating magnetosonic waves, and shock surfing as
possible injection mechanism to discriminate pickup ions from solar wind ions.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Johannes Geiss is a world leader and foremost expert on measurements and interpretation of the composition of matter that
reveals the history, present state, and future of astronomical objects. With his Swiss team he was first to measure the composition
of the noble gases in the solar wind when in the late 1960s he flew the brilliant solar wind collecting foil experiments on
the five Apollo missions to the moon. Always at the forefront of the art of composition measurements, he with his colleagues
determined the isotopic and elemental composition of the solar wind using instruments characterized by innovative design that
have provided the most comprehensive record of the solar wind composition under all solar wind conditions at all helio-latitudes.
He discovered heavy interstellar pickup ions, from which the composition of the neutral gas of the Local Interstellar Cloud
is determined, and the “Inner Source” of pickup ions. Johannes Geiss played a key role both in the in-situ measurements and
modeling of molecular ions in comets, and the interpretation of these data. He and co-workers measured the composition of
plasmas in the magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter. Here we highlight Johannes Geiss’ many discoveries and seminal contributions
to our knowledge of the composition of matter of the Sun, solar wind, interstellar gas, early universe, comets and magnetospheres. 相似文献
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Observations in the solar wind have revealed important insights into how energetic particles are accelerated in astrophysical
plasmas. In circumstances where stochastic acceleration is expected, a suprathermal tail on the distribution function is formed
with a common spectral shape: the spectrum is a power law in particle speed with a spectral index of −5. Recent theories for
this phenomenon, in which thermodynamic constraints are applied to explain the common spectral shape, are reviewed. As an
example of potential extensions of this theoretical work, consideration is given to the acceleration of Anomalous Cosmic Rays
in the heliosheath. 相似文献
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G. Gloeckler H. Balsiger A. Bürgi P. Bochsler L. A. Fisk A. B. Galvin J. Geiss F. Gliem D. C. Hamilton T. E. Holzer D. Hovestadt F. M. Ipavich E. Kirsch R. A. Lundgren K. W. Ogilvie R. B. Sheldon B. Wilken 《Space Science Reviews》1995,71(1-4):79-124
The Solar Wind and Suprathermal Ion Composition Experiment (SMS) on WIND is designed to determine uniquely the elemental, isotopic, and ionic-charge composition of the solar wind, the temperatures and mean speeds of all major solar-wind ions, from H through Fe, at solar wind speeds ranging from 175 kms–1 (protons) to 1280 kms–1 (Fe+8), and the composition, charge states as well as the 3-dimensional distribution functions of suprathermal ions, including interstellar pick-up He+, of energies up to 230 keV/e. The experiment consists of three instruments with a common Data Processing Unit. Each of the three instruments uses electrostatic analysis followed by a time-of-flight and, as required, an energy measurement. The observations made by SMS will make valuable contributions to the ISTP objectives by providing information regarding the composition and energy distribution of matter entering the magnetosphere. In addition SMS results will have an impact on many areas of solar and heliospheric physics, in particular providing important and unique information on: (i) conditions and processes in the region of the corona where the solar wind is accelerated; (ii) the location of the source regions of the solar wind in the corona; (iii) coronal heating processes; (iv) the extent and causes of variations in the composition of the solar atmosphere; (v) plasma processes in the solar wind; (vi) the acceleration of particles in the solar wind; and (vii) the physics of the pick-up process of interstellar He as well as lunar particles in the solar wind, and the isotopic composition of interstellar helium. 相似文献
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Rue Arthur K. Fisk Jerome W. 《IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems》1968,(3):360-368
This paper discusses the interrelationships among the ranging capability of a laser ranging system, the beamwidth of the transmitter, and the system pointing error. Since, in general, the system pointing error is statistical, the probability of successful ranging can be determined by means of these interrelationships, as is illustrated in a detailed analysis of a laser ranging system in which a gimbaled mirror is employed as an optical relay. 相似文献
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Gloeckler G. Cain J. Ipavich F.M. Tums E.O. Bedini P. Fisk L.A. Zurbuchen T.H. Bochsler P. Fischer J. Wimmer-Schweingruber R.F. Geiss J. Kallenbach R. 《Space Science Reviews》1998,86(1-4):497-539
The Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) and the Solar Wind Ions Mass Spectrometer (SWIMS) on ACE are instruments
optimized for measurements of the chemical and isotopic composition of solar and interstellar matter. SWICS determines uniquely
the chemical and ionic-charge composition of the solar wind, the thermal and mean speeds of all major solar wind ions from
H through Fe at all solar wind speeds above 300 km s−1 (protons) and 170 km s−1 (Fe+16), and resolves H and He isotopes of
both solar and interstellar sources. SWICS will measure the distribution functions of both the interstellar cloud and dust
cloud pickup ions up to energies of 100 keV e−1. SWIMS will measure the chemical, isotopic and charge state composition of
the solar wind for every element between He and Ni. Each of the two instruments uses electrostatic analysis followed by a
time-of-flight and, as required, an energy measurement. The observations made with SWICS and SWIMS will make valuable contributions
to the ISTP objectives by providing information regarding the composition and energy distribution of matter entering the magnetosphere.
In addition, SWICS and SWIMS results will have an impact on many areas of solar and heliospheric physics, in particular providing
important and unique information on: (i) conditions and processes in the region of the corona where the solar wind is accelerated;
(ii) the location of the source regions of the solar wind in the corona; (iii) coronal heating processes; (iv) the extent
and causes of variations in the composition of the solar atmosphere; (v) plasma processes in the solar wind; (vi) the acceleration
of particles in the solar wind; (vii) the physics of the pickup process of interstellar He in the solar wind; and (viii) the
spatial distribution and characteristics of sources of neutral matter in the inner heliosphere.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献