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NASA satellites tracking rain-packed Tropical Storm Chanthu as it heads toward China

NASA satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Chanthu revealed a large area of moderate to very heavy rainfall as it nears the southeast China coast.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Black Holes: Peering Into the Heart of Darkness (w/ Video)

A new infrared image has captured the center of our galaxy in never-before-seen detail--showing stars and gas swirling into the super massive black hole that lurks at the heart of our own Milky Way.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Tropical Storm Conson sweeping through the Northern Philippines

Tropical Storm Conson became a typhoon overnight with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the storm as it was making landfall in Luzon, the Philippines. Conson ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

See what's brewing in 'hurricane alleys' live online, on iPad and iPhone via GOES satellite

Scientists working for NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. have developed continually updating "movies" of satellite ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team devises technique to predict dust storms with infrared satellite

Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a method for predicting dust and sandstorms that uses infrared satellite images to determine when conditions are ripe for the destructive phenomena, a technique ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alex Stirs Up the Gulf

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tropical Storm Alex, soon to be a hurricane, churns its way through the western half of the Gulf of Mexico in this NASA infrared image taken Tuesday afternoon, June 29.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites view Tropical Storms Blas and Celia

Tropical cyclones Blas and Celia are both spinning in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and two NASA satellites captured them in visible and infrared imagery.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some might see a blood-red jellyfish in a forest of seaweed, while others might see a big, red eye or a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object in this new infrared image from NASA's ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tropical Depression 2-E struggling, while Tropical Storm Blas is born

NASA infrared satellite imagery captured two tropical depressions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean today, as one struggles to survive and the other powered up into Tropical Storm Blas.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GOES-15 solar X-Ray imager makes a miraculous first light

The Solar X-Ray Imager instrument aboard the GOES-15 satellite has just provided its first light image of the sun, but it required a lot of experts to make it happen.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cyclone Phet weakens after Oman landfall, headed to Pakistan

Tropical Cyclone Phet made landfall in Oman on June 3 and is now back in the Arabian Sea and headed toward a second landfall in Pakistan this weekend. NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have captured infrared ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Agatha drenches Guatemala and El Salvador, remnants now in Caribbean

Tropical Storm Agatha was the first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season, and took an inland route, drenching El Salvador and Guatemala this past weekend.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracking Ticks via Satellite

Finding a tick usually involves a squeamish self-examination - carefully rubbing fingertips through the scalp, meticulously scanning the body, and groaning "eyeww" if a little bloodsucker is discovered.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cyclone Laila, formerly Tropical Storm 1B, is headed for landfall in India

Tropical Storm 1B strengthened overnight into a Category One cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale and has been officially renamed "Laila." NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Laila today, May ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nanotech discovery could lead to breakthrough in infrared satellite imaging technology

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast