News tagged with dust particles
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Dust from distant lands may affect climate and health in the Americas and Europe
Residents of the southern United States and the Caribbean have seen it many times during the summer months—a whitish haze in the sky that seems to hang around for days. The resulting thin film of dust on their homes and ...
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Acoustic levitation could be used on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The presence of fine dust on the Moon and Mars may present problems for explorers, such as coating solar panels, penetrating seals and interfering with machinery. Human explorers would also ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Scientist uncovers relics of ancient cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Manchester scientist, working as part of an international team, has uncovered an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust
Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution. The stratospheric ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Electrostatic surface cleaning
It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Do dust particles curb climate change?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists have been asking themselves whether, and to what extent man-made aerosols, that is, dust particles suspended ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Tracing ultra-fine dust
Limit values for fine dust emissions are based on total particle weight. It is the ultra-fine particles, however, that are particularly harmful to health. A new technique separates them by size and identifies ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, told the audience for his lecture, “Seeking New Planets,” on Saturday evening, Sept. 26, ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The trilogy is complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3
The newly released image extends across a field of view of more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the full Moon — and was obtained with the Wide Field Imager attached ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Conducted
A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere was conducted September 19 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Rethinking Brownian motion with the 'Emperor's New Clothes'
In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study
A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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