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Asteroid 1998 QE2’s recent flyby was a great opportunity for scientists to learn more about the space rock and asteroids in general.
QE2 didn't disappoint, as astronomers are now convinced that it belongs to an entirely new class from which we have no samples and very little data.
It's unlike any of the ... |
17 June 2013
09:18 GMT |
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The cool Weather Channel iPhone app backed by 200 meteorologists and the ultra-local TruPoint forecasting technology is getting a leg up with a new Radar feature that lets you know where the storms are headed.
The Weather Channel version 5.2.0 sports a new Future Radar feature which, in the developer’s own wor... |
23 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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Today Weather by savvy apps is getting its first feature update since launch, adding the ability to zoom to see the entire United States of America and have more frequent radar updates.
The company has also added options for keeping the background as day (light) or night (dark), as well as hourly wind information, m... |
4 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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The Taiwanese government is asking Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California to censor a map image of a warning radar station capable of detecting aircraft and missiles from afar.
Taiwan News is reporting that Defense Ministry spokesman David Lo released a statement this week noting that Google uses only low-resolution sa... |
10 October 2012
07:22 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that one of the instruments the organization developed, a special type of 3D aerial laser, has recently taken off aboard a NASA aircraft, and is currently heading to Alaska and Japan, for a study of active volcanoes.
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3 October 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that data from their flagship Earth-observing satellite, Envisat, are now being used to investigate landslides that occur in Switzerland. This is possible thanks to the advanced radar instrument on the spacecraft.
Scientific tools such as this one are capable of detec... |
26 September 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation presented the first MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) to the US Navy, during a ceremony held in Palmdale, California, on Thursday, June 14.
According to the company, the autonomous flying vehicle is an important strategic ... |
15 June 2012
09:22 GMT |
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The engineer who invented the wireless TV remote control, back in 1955, died of natural causes on May 20, 2012, at the age of 95. Eugene Polley is described by his son, Eugene J. Polley Jr., as a constant tinkerer, always thinking about and improving on various devices. Over the course of his lifetime, Polley contr... |
23 May 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Using a technique called polarimetric information in Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-InSAR), satellites belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) are now able to conduct a series of advanced investigations, including determining the three-dimensional structure of forests.
At the same time, the approach can be used... |
21 March 2012
05:41 GMT |
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A team of scientists was recently able to image the magma chamber underneath the Mount Kilauea volcano, in Hawaii. In order to do that, the experts never had to install measuring equipment of the mountain's slope or dig their way deep underground, but rather soar high in the sky above it. Using a special type of... |
13 January 2012
05:43 GMT |
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In preparation for launching the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, experts at NASA are currently testing all the components that will go on the spacecraft, including its descent and landing radar instrument.This component is extremely important for the success of the entire mission, as its job is to ensure that ... |
22 June 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Scientists using the massive radar dish of the Arecibo Planetary Radar in Puerto Rico are now keeping tabs on the Comet Harley 2, joining the multitude of ground- and space-based observatories that are already doing so. Classified as a medium-sized space body, the comet has become a point of interest for astronomers ... |
29 October 2010
02:36 GMT |
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Everyone knows that there are regions on our planet that are not exactly suited for human habitation. Others cannot even be visited due to their extreme conditions, while others are obviously there, but just beyond our reach. Perhaps the most important part of this last category is the underground mountain chain that... |
10 June 2010
10:57 GMT |
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As we were telling you last week, the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), operated by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, managed to conduct a preliminary survey of the post-earthquake Haiti. The false-color images show a country devastated by the January 12 tr... |
2 February 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, NASA, have announced that they have added a number of scientific overflights above the devastated nation of Haiti, as well as over the Dominican Republic. The flights have been added to missions that were scheduled some time ago, and they again highlight NASA's commitment to... |
27 January 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Only a couple of months ago did astronomers manage to discover a new member of the triple-asteroid class, when they realized that the Near-Earth Object (NEO) known as 1994 CC actually was made up of three pieces. In addition to the central rock, which is the largest of them all, two other bodies, with much smaller di... |
10 August 2009
15:21 GMT |
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On Saturday, April 4th, the University of Oklahoma has inaugurated its newest and most capable radar system, entitled OU-PRIME (Polarimetric Radar for Innovations in Meteorology and Engineering), a machine that is expected to allow the learning institution to continue its role as a leader in the area of weather-relat... |
6 April 2009
09:19 GMT |
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Over the years, flying on a large scale has become a lot safer due to continuous improvements added to the aircraft itself, to the control terminal or to the airport terminal. Passengers could finally afford to fly to their destinations on a regular basis only after the introduction of some improvements to the flight... |
6 October 2008
09:21 GMT |
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What would a wheelchair-bound German amateur inventor be doing in the United Arab Emirates desert? Grow specially bred worms and create radar-evading paints for the military of course. Wener Nickel, age 67, went to the United Arab Emirates to conduct a project involving worms that produced excrements in which radishe... |
8 May 2008
07:05 GMT |
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The MARSIS instrument, or the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument, on board Europe's Mars Express probe was originally designed to look for water beneath the Red Planet's surface but could also easily penetrate the ice sheet covering Jupiter's moon Europa or the surfac... |
7 May 2008
09:08 GMT |
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If you think a little bump can ruin your day, think again. A side-impact can ruin your life! Side-impacts are probably the most dangerous types of car crash, mostly due to the fact that the sides of the cars are the least protected areas. That's why European researchers are now trying to develop a car body that ... |
17 March 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Indeed there is. Warships may seem rather powerful, but this showoff of sheer power would not be very efficient against people that don't give a penny on looks. What the modern warfare needs is invisibility. You might have noticed the trend followed by a series of armies around the world, starting with the devel... |
3 March 2008
03:44 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, including Professor Hossein Hashemi and Graduate student Ta-Shun Chu, has recently been capable to create a small 49 pixel CMOS camera, that works in the ultrawideband radar. Only two years ago, the team presented a similar CMOS chip that was only capa... |
5 February 2008
07:38 GMT |
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The experiment conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with a few other U.S. governmental institution, was mainly designed in order to make detailed measurements on the surface of the Moon, and the Earth's upper layer of the atmosphere, the ionosphere. The team of scientists successfully sen... |
9 January 2008
09:36 GMT |
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There are an estimated one hundred million unexploded land mines around the world. Placing and arming them is relatively inexpensive and simple, the process of detecting and removing them is typically expensive, slow and dangerous.Small size antipersonnel mines are the most dangerous, because they are very small, ma... |
30 July 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Seeing is not all about light, as sounds often produce accurate images of what light alone can't show us. Many applications use sound as imaging technique, like radars, sonars, echographs and telecommunication devices. Processing acoustic signals has just become more efficient with a new imaging algorithm that ... |
17 July 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Some missiles are accidentally damaged when struck by rocks and debris kicked up by helicopter rotors or when mishandled during shipping or maintenance.Unlike missiles made of metallic alloys - which often show external signs of damage such as cracks or dents - damage in the new "filament wound" composite materials ... |
26 March 2007
04:18 GMT |
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