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Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2011 Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The number of solar flares increases approximately every 11 years, and the sun is currently moving towards another solar maximum, likely in 2013. That means more flares will be coming, some small and some big enough to send their radiation all the way to Earth. The biggest flares are know ... read more |
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  Unusual Fault Pattern Surfaces in Earthquake Study Like scars that remain on the skin long after a wound has healed, earthquake fault lines can be traced on Earth's surface long after their initial rupture. Typically, this line of intersection betwe ... more | .. |
  Technology Plays Important Role to Improve the Wine Industry Great wines come from combining site selection with appropriate viticulture and winemaking skills and style. But now geographic information systems (GIS) technology plays an important role in the wi ... more | .. |
 S. Koreans file class action suit against Apple More than 20,000 South Korean iPhone users filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against US technology giant Apple for alleged privacy violations over the collection of location data, a law firm said. ... more | .. | ||
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 Smoke from Virginia Lateral West Fire The GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of the thick brown smoke streaming from the Lateral West Fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GDSBWR) in southeastern Virgi ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Wins Navy GPS Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service Contract Raytheon has been awarded a $32.2 million U.S. Navy contract for the Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service program for Navy surface and subsurface platforms. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes First Free-Flight Test The U.S. Navy completed the first free-flight test of Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1, bringing the world's only net-enabled standoff weapon with moving maritime target capability closer to ini ... more | .. |
  Scientists find eruption at undersea volcano after forecasting the event A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast - and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts i ... more |
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 China to launch civil survey satellite late this year China will put into space a high-definition civil survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, at the end of this year, said an official of the National Administration of Surveying, Mappi ... more | .. |
 Critical Milestone Reached for 2012 Landsat Mission The Operational Land Imager (OLI), built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., has been approved by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for shipment to Orbital Sciences Corporation, ... more | .. |
 Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to ... more | .. |
 Software on the Fly Much of the activity that enables the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) to reach its scientific goals happens behind the scenes. In this latest post I'm going to talk a bit about the software gl ... more |
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 Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere spec ... more | .. |
 NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing by Cynthia M O'Carroll for Goddard Space Flight Center The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its ... more | .. |
  Study shows how to eliminate motion sickness on tilting trains An international team of researchers led by scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that motion sickness on tilting trains can be essentially eliminated by adjusting the timing of wh ... more | .. |
  The Physics of Crop Circles In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim ... more |
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 La Ninas distant effects in East Africa For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nino Southern Oscillation) known as El Nino/La Nina. Du ... more | .. |
 First of Many Miniaturized Helio Instruments For WINCS To be Delivered More than a decade ago, technologist Fred Herrero realized that to truly understand the ever-changing dynamics of Earth's upper atmosphere, he would need an armada of satellites gathering simultaneo ... more | .. |
  US Army Selects SMSS Autonomous Vehicle for Afghanistan Deployment The U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force, through the Robotics Technology Consortium, selected the Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) to deploy to Afghanistan for a first-of-i ... more | .. |
S. Korea to fine Apple over tracking feature South Korea's telecoms regulator said Wednesday that it would fine the Korean unit of US technology giant Apple over an iPhone feature that can track the location of users. ... more |
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  Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more | .. |
  Russia to carry out 3 space launches in August Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it is planning to launch two satellites and a space freighter next month. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched on August 18 on board a Prot ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions are contributing to famines that the U.S. Department of State says are a ... more | .. |
 Tropical Storm Muifa appears huge on NASA infrared imagery The width of an image from the AIRS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite is about 1700 km (1056 miles), and the clouds and thunderstorms associate with Tropical Storm Muifa take up that en ... more |
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  Cows clock-in for monitored mealtimes Electronic ear tags are being used to provide an early warning system that will help farmers identify sick animals within a herd. The new system, being trialled by scientists at Newcastle Univ ... more | .. |
 Toucans wearing GPS backpacks help Smithsonian scientists study seed dispersal Nutmeg-loving toucans wearing GPS transmitters recently helped a team of scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama address an age-old problem in plant ecology: accurately e ... more | .. |
 NASA AIRS Movies Show Evolution of US 2011 Heat Wave The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak. ... more | .. |
China launches navigation satellite: Xinhua China launched its ninth navigation satellite on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing sources at the launch centre. ... more |
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 Using Satellites for Human and Environmental Security Needs Can satellites attuned to curbing human rights violations become an instrument for stopping genocide here on Earth? An opinion editorial asks this question and more in the Summer 2011 issue of ... more | .. |
 China to launch 9th orbiter for indigenous global navigation network China will launch the ninth orbiter into space in "coming days" as part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network. The "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite will be l ... more | .. |
 Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice s ... more | .. |
 Horn of Africa drought seen from space Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA's SMOS satellite shows t ... more |
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