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New NASA Tool Allows Amateurs To Explore The Ionosphere From The Inside Boulder CO (SPX) May 09, 2008 
Last week at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, NASA released a 4D live model of the Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that is required is an Internet connection and a free copy of Google Earth. NASA calls the ionosphere the "last wisp of Earth's atmosphere that astronauts ... read more |
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Record-Setting Laser May Aid Searches For Earthlike Planets
Konstanz, Germany (SPX) May 09, 2008Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power. The same NIST group also has shown that this type of laser, when used as a frequency comb-an ultraprecise technique for measuring different colors of light- ... more Telescopes search for signals from space 
Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) May 7, 2008 U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, their leader says. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, said 42 of the planned 350 telescopes have been built in a mostly uninhabited area about 300 miles northeast of San Jose, Calif., the San Jose Mercury News repo ... more Cassini Imaging Lead Scientist To Provide Cosmic Perspective For Millions Around The Globe 
Boulder, CO (SPX) May 09, 2008When the worldwide film event known as Pangea Day launches this Saturday, May 10, Cassini imaging team leader and veteran imaging scientist, Carolyn Porco, will be present to provide an inspiring perspective on humanity's place in the cosmos. Pangea Day is a global event intended to bring the world together through film and will link six locations around the world for a live program of pow ... more Inhaling For Exploration As Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System 
Houston TX (SPX) May 08, 2008Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated? For three weeks, 23 volunteers dedicated time to do just that - sweat and breathe - inside a test chamber so NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center in Houston could meas ... more Snow Like Iron Helps Maintain The Magnetic Field Of Mercury 
Champaign IL (SPX) May 08, 2008New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground. The movement of this iron snow could be responsible for Mercury's mysterious magnetic field, say researchers from the University of Illinois and Case Western Reserve University. In a paper ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2008STEREO spacecraft animations created by Steve Gribben of the Technical Communications Group at APL sizzle on the big screen in 3D Sun, a digital IMAX film that opened in March at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The 20-minute movie features the STEREO - for Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory - mission to help audiences understand the impact the sun has on Earth. ... more A Super Solar Flare 
Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2008At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington-widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers-was in his well-appointed private observatory. Just as usual on every sunny day, his telescope was projecting an 11-inch-wide image of the sun on a screen, and Carrington skillfully drew the sunspots he saw. ... more Solar Games At Paranal 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) May 05, 2008Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as of the so-called 'Gegenschein', are real cases in point. The Earth's atmosphere is a gigantic prism that disperses sunlight. In the most ideal atmospheric conditions, such as those ... more Send Your Name To The Moon With New Lunar Mission 
Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2008NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft. The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information the we ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2008The eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this year on Tuesday, May 6th. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours immediately before sunrise. If you can, get away from city lights; you will see more meteors from the dark countryside. 2008 should be a good year for the eta Aquarid meteors. The Moon is new, which means no lunar glare, and Earth is expected to pass ... more Temporary cooling trend may offset warming 
New York (UPI) May 2, 2008 German scientists said temporary climate variations may temporarily offset the long-term global warming trend. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology said computer simulations and measurements of ocean temperatures suggest that global warming will weaken slightly during the the next decade. The findings are published ... more NASA Calls On APL To Send A Probe To The Sun 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 05, 2008The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone - and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system. NASA has tapped APL to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will study the streams of charged particles the sun hurls ... more Canadian satellite to detect Earth hits 
Ottawa (UPI) May 2, 2008 Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes. "This is the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope," said Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary (Alberta), one of two principal scientists for the satellite. He told the Canwest News Service the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, set to be ... more
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