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Brown, Alan (2021-04-29). "Those Pesky Earthlings: Pandora's Legions by Christopher Anvil". Tor.com . Retrieved 2023-04-03. The name Pandora refers to the first woman according to Greek mythology. She was a very curious woman who was given a jar (Pithos) and was told not to open it. Pandora was not able to resist opening the jar and, when she did, all the evils in the world were released. When she discovered the evil she'd unleashed, she hastened to close the jar, and managed to contain one evil before it escaped: "Hopelessness". Therefore, all humans still had hope, an idea that would eventually conquer the evils. Pandora was not punished for her actions, as Zeus knew she would open the Pithos. As long as the planet and the moon transit the star without mutual eclipses, Pandora treats these synchronous transits separately, as if the star were occulted by two independent spherical bodies. If, however, the circles of the planet and the moon overlap during ingress or egress of at least one of the two bodies, then things become more complicated. Hence, planet-moon eclipses during ingress or egress require special treatment. The following year the United Earth Parliament voted to end the Exodus Fleets for an indefinite period, shifting funds for expanding infrastructure in Sol, Sirius and Taurus, re-purposing the Europa and Utopia Plantia Shipyards for trade ship construction and expansion of the United Earth Starfleet, to act as an exploration and military agency for Earth's expanding empire. Before its completion alone the Exodus Project launched over 250,000,000 colonists to what is now being referred to as a the Outer Solar Colonies, which unlike Pandora, largely remained loyal to Earth.

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A portion of Pandora (only the equator) extracted from the Wii game with approximate locations of notable locations As an example, our Kepler solver for the eccentric case uses the method by Markley (1995). Faster algorithms exist, for example one is based on a CORDIC-like solver ( Zechmeister 2018, 2021). As eccentric moons are rarely expected, we have deferred to these optimizations. In addition to the model light curve, we generated a simulated observation that is roughly representative of an idealized, photometrically quite, Sun-like star as if it were observed by the PLATO mission. PLATO is expected to launch in 2026 in search for transiting exoplanets around bright stars ( Rauer et al. 2014). We chose a cadence of 10min as will be used for PLATO’s P5 stellar sample of ≥ 245 000 dwarf and subdwarf stars of spectral types F5-K7 with apparent visual magnitudes 11 ≤ m V≤ 13. We added a white noise component to each data point that is randomly drawn from a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 100 ppm. This noise component is roughly representative of a photometrically quiet Sun-like star from PLATO’s P5 sample 3, but it ignores any kind of astrophysical variability. Specifically, the photon noise from this test star would correspond to an apparent visual magnitude m V ~ 11, though the details of the photon noise floor also depend on the actual number of cameras (6, 12, 18, or 24) with which the target is observed. These simulations assume ideal conditions for the purpose of illustrating Pandora’s functionality. For details on the actual detectability of exoplanet transits with PLATO in the presence of stellar noise, see Heller et al. (2021). Staff (January 4, 2010). "Avatar fans promised alien sex scene on DVD". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved January 7, 2010. The Gill Mantle ("Txampaysye" in Na'vi) is a large jellyfish like creature native to Pandora's reefs. The Na'vi can bond with them in the water, which can supply them with oxygen through the water allowing Na'vi to remain underwater much longer. They are primarily used by Kiri throughout Avatar: The Way of Water.a b c d Anders, Charlie Jane (December 9, 2009). "Pandora's Creatures Were Partly Based on Cars". Gizmodo . Retrieved December 3, 2021.