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Insight Into Volcanic Eruptions, Courtesy Of SpaceParis, France (ESA) Oct 19, 2010 Scientists are crediting satellite imagery with helping to predict where volcanic eruptions could strike. It is well known that earthquakes can stress Earth's crust and trigger subsequent quakes, but there has been no proof of this for volcanoes until now. In September 2005, a volcanic event in Ethiopia's Afar Desert forced magma up through rocks in a crack, known as a dyke, resulting in a 60-km-long tear in Earth's crust. Over the next four years, 12 more dykes were created in the same region nea ... read more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Oct 5, 2010 The United States and Israel lead the field in developing unmanned aerial vehicles, including missile-armed drones used extensively against their enemies in an evolving form of remote-control warfare. But their common foe, Iran, is in the race, too, and that has serious implications for the military balance in the Middle East. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a long ... more  
Kathmandu, Nepal (UPI) Oct 5, 2010 More regional and bilateral cooperation is needed to tackle climate change in the Himalayas, an Indian official said. "The behavior of Himalayan glaciers is fundamentally different from that of glaciers in the polar regions and they need special investigation and analysis," Indian Minister for Environment and Forests Shri Jairam Ramesh said Monday, The Himalayan Times reports. "B ... more  
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2010IKONOS, the world's first commercial, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and currently operated by GeoEye has achieved 11 years of successful on-orbit operations. A first-of-its-kind satellite, IKONOS was launched on Sept. 24, 1999 to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth for worldwide commercial and government customers. The s ... more |
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Boeing Completes First Flight Tests Of MK-84 Laser JDAMSt. Louis MO (SPX Boeing has announced that it successfully completed the first flight tests of the MK-84 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (Laser JDAM) this summer at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The first two of seven planned tests at Eglin demonstrated the 2,000-pound weapon's precision strike capability against fixed, relocatable and moving targets. During the tests in July, two inert MK-84 Laser JDAM weapons were released from a U.S. Air Force F-16 test aircraft flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet and a speed ... read more |
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