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GAIA [7 records]

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Record 1 2022-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Exploration Equipment and Tools
  • Spacecraft
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
CONT

The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, launched in 2013, is becoming one of history's greatest star mappers. It relies on a suite of high-precision instruments to measure star brightness, distance, and composition. The ambitious goal is to create a three-dimensional map of our Milky Way galaxy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage d'exploration spatiale
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
CONT

... un ... catalogue a été élaboré à partir des mesures de position effectuées par les «repéreurs d'étoiles» d'Hipparcos (dispositifs ayant servi à repérer les étoiles à observer par le satellite).

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mythology
CONT

The Titanides were the six daughters of Ouranos and Gaia, the female counterparts of the Titanes.

OBS

Titanides: term always used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mythologie
DEF

Dans la mythologie grecque, filles de Gaia, la Terre, et d'Ouranos, le Ciel.

OBS

Titanides : terme toujours utilisé au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Air Pollution
CONT

To James Lovelock... the planet itself is a life-form created by all this interlinking feedback. Lovelock has taken the notion of feedback and coevolution to dizzying heights. According to his Gaia hypothesis, the approximately four billion species on earth are coevolutionarily coordinated in such a way that our planet itself is, in effect, an autopoietic structure, what Lewis Thomas calls a giant "single cell".

OBS

Lovelock named his theory of the living, evolving, self-regulating, self-organizing life form earth "Gaia" after the ancient Greek goddess of earth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évolution (Biologie)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Hypothèse de James E. Lovelock selon laquelle la Terre (Gaïa) réagirait elle-même, à la façon d'un être animé, selon ses propres moyens, aux différents déséquilibres écologiques naturels ou anthropiques auxquels elle est soumise.

OBS

Lovelock est aussi celui qui a mis au point un capteur de chlorofluorocarbures, le CFC sniffer, vers 1930.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Evolución (Biología)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Contaminación del aire
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Record 4 2001-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Exploration Equipment and Tools
CONT

GAIA is a preliminary concept for an astrometric mission, recently recommended within the context of ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus’ long-term scientific programme. In its present form, the experiment is estimated to lead to positions, proper motions, and parallaxes of some 50 million objects, down to about V=15 mag, with an accuracy better than 10 microarcsec, along with multi-colour multi-epoch photometry of each object.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage d'exploration spatiale

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Committees and Boards (Admin.)
  • Astronautics
CONT

The GAIA Observatory, which has been under study by ESA, industry and a very wide community of European astrophysicists over the past two years, arose from the recommendations of the ESA Horizon 2000+ Survey Committee in 1994.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comités et commissions (Admin.)
  • Astronautique

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
OBS

Publication of The Gaia Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Publication de The Gaia Group.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

The global ecosystem seen as a single living, creative system, the name being that of the Greek goddess of the earth.

OBS

The Earth viewed as a vast self-regulating organism, in which the whole range of living matter defines the conditions for its own survival, modifying the physical environment to suit its needs... Named after Gaia, the Earth goddess in Greek mythology(the daughter of Chaos).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
CONT

Le mot Gaia lancé par James Lovelock a été éliminé (de la géophysiologie) parce qu'il a été accaparé par le "New Age" et qu'il est contaminé pour la science.

Spanish

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