News tagged with gravitational potential

GOCE gravity satellite moves to launch pad

(PhysOrg.com) -- With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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A planetary system that never was teaches about those that may be

While Kepler and similar missions are turning up planets by the fist full, there’s long been many places that astronomers haven’t expected to find planetary systems. The main places include regions ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

(Phys.org) -- A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (88) | comments 256 | with audio podcast

Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lunar boom: Why we'll soon be mining the moon

As history has repeatedly shown, where there are valuable minerals to be unearthed, adventurous humans will arrive in droves – even if it means battling extreme conditions and risking life and limb.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (17) | comments 53

JUICE is Europe's next large science mission

(Phys.org) -- Jupiter’s icy moons are the focus of Europe’s next large science mission.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Prof explores universe through gravity lens studies

(Phys.org) -- The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, associate professor of physics at UT Dallas, a $222,000 research grant for his investigations of the gravitational lensing technique ...

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

JUICE to Jupiter could be ESA’s next major science mission

The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next major space mission for ESA be an orbiter mission to the Jupiter system named JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Quantum criticality': Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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