High fire activity periods in the Amazon region can be predicted months in advance on the basis of water storage data, a new study shows.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 29, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 19, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org)—A new way of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 30, 2013 5 / 5 (15) 2 |

(Phys.org)—A new analysis of topographic and gravity data from Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, indicates that Titan's icy outer crust is twice as thick as has generally been thought.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 04, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 8 |

Annual to decadal changes in the earth's magnetic field in a region that stretches from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean have a close relationship with variations of gravity in this area. From this it can ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 22, 2012 5 / 5 (12) 7 |

(Phys.org)—Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 09, 2012 4.6 / 5 (26) 23 |

Ground-breaking space exploration technology is being used to develop an innovative new sensor for the subsea industry. Dr Charles Wang, an astrophysicist at the University of Aberdeen who is leading the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 06, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 29, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 16, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 5

Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 02, 2012 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

Engineers with NASA's Cassini mission are conducting diagnostic testing on a part of the spacecraft's radio system after its signal was not detected on Earth during a tracking pass in late December. The spacecraft ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 13, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into lunar orbit. At the time the spacecraft crossed the milestone ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 31, 2011 3.7 / 5 (9) 6 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- In many fields of applied science, such as geology, there are often tensions and disagreements between scientists who specialize in analyses of problems using mathematical models to describe sets of collected ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 02, 2011 4 / 5 (2) 0

The US space agency plans to launch two unmanned spacecraft Thursday that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity measurements to draw an unprecedented map of its inner workings.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 26, 2011 4 / 5 (6) 4