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Anniversary: Aqua Satellite Turns 10 in Earth's Orbit

Today, May 4, the NASA Aqua spacecraft and its six-instrument scientific suite are celebrating their 10th anniversary in Earth's orbit. Over the past decade, the satellite has provided experts with vast volumes of data on our planet's atmosphere, contributing to our understanding of the world as a whole. T...

4 May 2012
04:33 GMT

Unusual Sea Ice Spread Recorded in the Bering Sea

One of the most puzzling aspects of the 2011-2012 winter in the areas around the North Pole was the unusually-high sea ice extent present in the Bering Sea, according to a report provided by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This natural-color image of the sea basin was captured on March 10, 2012, us...

20 March 2012
10:08 GMT

Colorado, Nebraska Under Heavy Snow Clouds

On February 5, the NASA Aqua satellite trained its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on a portion of the United States covering Colorado and Nebraska, which were severely affected by an impressive snowstorm just days earlier. As clearly visible from this image, the weather front brought...

7 February 2012
03:22 GMT

Large Algae Blooms Seen in Lake Erie

An image collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Aqua satellite on October 9 reveals the extent of the algae bloom that affects Lake Erie. The event is one of the most intense to occur over the past several decades, analysts agree. Algae blooms occur when nutri...

14 October 2011
05:18 GMT

Aqua Achievements and Hints (Xbox 360)

Aqua, also known as Aqua: Naval Warfare, is a video game developed by Games Distillery and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360, on May 19, 2010, and for the PC, on May 26, 2011, as a arcade action shooter, with various strategy elements sprinkled in to enhance the experience.Aqua is a downloadable ti...

19 September 2011
07:26 GMT

Massive Greenland Glaciers Makes its Way to Canada

A massive ice island that broke off the Greenland ice sheet nearly a year ago has now been identified off the coasts of Labrador, Canada. The massive iceberg has been drifting in the North Atlantic, posing a danger for navigation, but authorities now know its location. The object became separated from the Petermann G...

6 July 2011
09:48 GMT

NASA Images Massive US Storm Front

The continental United States are currently half-covered by a massive atmospheric front, that brings with it massive amounts of precipitations in the form of snow storms and heavy winds.All of the East Coast and parts of the South and the Midwest are affected by the atmospheric event, which is considerably more &ldqu...

3 February 2011
10:13 GMT

Phytoplankton Blooms in New Zealand

Images snapped with a satellite operated by the American space agency reveal a very large phytoplankton bloom off the coasts of Chatham Island, in New Zealand. This is the time of the year when the annual springtime bloom takes place in this region of the Southern Hemisphere. The NASA Aqua satellite features an impre...

28 December 2010
05:37 GMT

Apple’s Mac OS X Just Turned 10

Since the early 2000s, Mac OS X has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. Mac OS X is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS (Apple's primary operating system since 1984). On September 13, 2010, Mac OS X (ten) turned 10.Mac OS X is a Unix-based graphical operating s...

14 September 2010
08:31 GMT

Fire of NVIDIA's GTX 480 Gets Put Out by Aqua

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 DirectX 11-capable graphics adapters may not be hot enough to cause an explosion or start a fire, but they still come quite close to 100 Degrees Celsius during heavy workloads, at least according to some reviewers. According to their maker, this heat isn't a problem for ...

23 April 2010
10:56 GMT

We Sing Announces New Artists, Release Date

Nordic Games Publishing AB has announced that it plans to release We Sing, its upcoming karaoke-oriented singing videogame, on October 30 for the Nintendo Wii, allowing players to enjoy no less than 30 tracks in a variety of game modes designed to allow for maximum fun.The developer has also revealed five new tracks ...

6 October 2009
02:32 GMT

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to Break Away from Aqua

Sources are reporting that Apple may have a lot more than tweaks and enhancements in mind for the existing features in Leopard, for the latest version of the OS – 10.6. In fact, Apple is expected to unify the entire UI, doing away with elements using embossment. Earlier this month, Daring Fireball's John ...

19 January 2009
08:42 GMT

Apple Patents the Mac OS X Dock

In 1999, Apple filed a patent application for what was a “user interface for providing consolidation and access,” in short, the OS X Dock. Only two days ago did the US Patent Office approve it, sources are reporting.The Dock is a key feature of the graphical user interface (GUI) of Apple OS. The dock is a...

9 October 2008
07:00 GMT

Aqua Pearls

New week, new game and because it's summer and everything is sunny, it's possible that many of us have the tendency to go to the beach, bathe in the sun or just go for a swim. But in case the weather is not the best ever, feel free to try this game...Well, this little game we have for you today goes well wi...

10 August 2007
10:10 GMT


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