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Infrared Sounder on NASA's Suomi NPP Starts its MissionGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2012 A powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA's newest polar-orbiting satellite, designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth's atmosphere and improve weather forecasts and our understanding of climate, has started sending its data back to Earth. The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) joins four other new instruments aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, which NASA launched on Oct. 28, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ... read more |
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 3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of scien ... more | .. |
 Spaceborne Precipitation Radar Ships from Japan to U.S. Japanese scientists and engineers have completed construction on a new instrument designed to take 3-D measurements of the shapes, sizes and other physical characteristics of both raindrops and snow ... more | .. |
 UBC researchers use Google Earth to verify Mediterranean fish farming data The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth's satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers ha ... more | .. |
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 NASA Scientist and Education Award Winner Leads Student Phytoplankton Study Dr. Tiffany Moisan is a NASA scientist who thrives on studying the ocean and has a passion for educating and inspiring students in ocean sciences. Last year, Moisan received an award that enabled he ... more | .. |
 NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012 With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA's Airborne Science Program and Earth system science research. Multiple aircraft and specialized i ... more | .. |
  GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say. ... more | .. |
 Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon? In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push th ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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 Pleiades captures its first images using e2v sensors Pleiades, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using e2v high performance imaging sensors. Two types of e2v sensors (for panchroma ... more | .. |
  Oldest Family Mushroom Farm in the US Goes Solar Mushrooms do not normally need much help from the sun, but nearly 5,000 solar panels have popped up alongside buildings that house white button mushrooms near West Grove, Pennsylvania. Marlboro Mush ... more | .. |
 Russia May Spend Almost $12 bln on Glonass in 2012-2020 Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's answer to the U.S. G ... more | .. |
 VIIRS Eastern Hemisphere Image - Behind the Scenes The Suomi NPP satellite is in a polar orbit around Earth at an altitude of 512 miles (about 824 kilometers), but the perspective of the new Eastern hemisphere 'Blue Marble' is from 7,918 miles (abou ... more |
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 First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure ... more | .. |
 Blue Marble By Suomi NPP A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of t ... more | .. |
  Taiwan to build flight system on disputed islands Taiwan's defence ministry said Monday it is preparing to set up an air navigation system on the disputed Spratly islands, in a move that could spark fresh tensions in the South China Sea. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon and US Navy Complete JSOW C-1 Developmental Testing The U.S. Navy completed developmental testing (DT) of the Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. The conclusion of DT brings U.S. and allied warfighters one step closer to being able to engage moving s ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
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 'Atlantis' gone in new Google map image A Google Earth image with an undersea gridlike pattern some suspected were sunken streets of the mythological city of Atlantis has been updated, official said. ... more | .. |
 SSTL-OHB System consortium to build a further eight Galileo FOC satellites European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani has announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites fo ... more | .. |
 Eight more Galileo navsats agreed ESA has signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe's Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time. The signin ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 to launch Galileo constellation Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Didier Faivre, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the European Space Agency (ESA), has signed an agreement i ... more |
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  Armadillo rocket flys high Following detailed analysis of the downlinked telemetry and audio/video recordings from both ground based cameras and a camera that was recovered from the rocket, Armadillo Aerospace has determined ... more | .. |
 EU signs orders for eight new Galileo space satellites The EU on Thursday signed contracts with German and French engineering firms to build and launch another eight satellites for its Europe's Galileo geopositioning system. ... more | .. |
 China considers Google Maps request Chinese authorities say an application by Google for an online maps license, required for operating such services in China, is under official examination. ... more | .. |
  Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet ap ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 NASA's GCPEX Mission: What We Don't Know about Snow Predicting the future is always a tricky business - just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowh ... more | .. |
  80 percent of 'irreplaceable' habitats in Andes unprotected Hundreds of rare, endemic species in the Central Andes remain unprotected and are increasingly under threat from development and climate change, according to a Duke University-led international stud ... more | .. |
  Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit Dawn is scrutinizing Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), circling the rocky world five and a half times a day. The spacecraft is healthy and continuing its intensive campaign to reveal ... more | .. |
  SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ra ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellites Reach 150 Years of Combined On Orbit Service The U.S. Air Force's fleet of Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR and IIR-M satellites has accumulated 150 collective years of successful on-orbit operations. The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: ... more | .. |
 ESA Director General praises UK space innovation ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Rt. Hon. David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has unveiled a commemorative plaque marking the inauguration of Surrey Satellite Technol ... more | .. |
 Classifying Solar Eruptions 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 ... more | .. |
 LED lights point shoppers in the right direction Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio freq ... more |
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