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Proba-2 Shows Solar Eruption That Touched EarthParis, France (ESA) Apr 15, 2010 Polar skies glowed with ghostly auroras last week during the biggest geomagnetic storm of 2010. The event owed its origin to a solar eruption a few days earlier - revealed here in high-speed detail by ESA's small Sun-watcher Proba-2. Eruptions like this one have several components, most notably solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Solar flares are caused by sudden impulsive releases of magnetic energy from the surface of the Sun. The flare seen here took place at 11:54 CET on Satu ... read more |
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Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Mar 29, 2010Through the years, the Global Positioning System has become one of the most widely-used Air Force applications. Today GPS is used in everything from farming and aviation to public safety, disaster relief and recreation, not to mention its military purpose of providing precision navigation and timing to combat forces. This dependence requires a keen focus on maintaining and modernizing the ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2010Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet, which has been increasing during the past decade over its southern region, is now moving up its northwest coast, according to a new international study. The research indicates the ice-loss acceleration began moving up the northwest coast of Greenland staring in late 2005. The team drew their conclusions by comparing data from NASA's Gravity and Recove ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 New technologies displayed at the premier U.S. information technology event show the future is intense in the evolving cyberspace rivalry among manufacturers and battles against crime and terrorist threats. The Federal Office Systems Exposition and conference in Washington is aimed at government information technology professionals, a major procurement and purchasing community but draw ... more |
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Grappling With Space DebrisBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 One of the hot issues within the space community is how to deal with orbiting debris. The first thing that we need to do is understand the problem. There are literally millions of pieces of orbiting junk that have been left in space by the world's space-farring nations over the past 50 years. Now we have a galactic mess on our hands. What do we do now? The first question is: Why do anything? We know it would be expensive to just go into space to pick up the trash. Nobody wants to pay for it. It is ... read more |
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