Oregon State University's new maps of 30-year U.S. climate "normals" show the area east of the Rockies is getting wetter, the Southwest is getting drier, and temperatures are inching upward—with daily lows rising faster ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2021
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Light bounced off reflectors on the moon is fainter than expected and mysteriously dims even more whenever the moon is full. Astronomers think dust is a likely culprit, they report in a forthcoming issue of the journal Icarus.
Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2010
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Engineers at Ball Aerospace, one of the industrial partners for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, have installed and aligned the element wheel assembly (pictured above) into the telescope's Wide Field Instrument. ...
Astronomy
Dec 6, 2022
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A coastal scene with deep blue seas and a coral reef is beautiful to look at, but if you try to record the scene with a camera or a scientific instrument, the results are almost always disappointing. Most cameras can't "see" ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2016
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In order to obtain stable and reliable optical components for space remote sensors, researchers have recently designed a rigid-flexible, dual-mode coupling support structure for space-based rectangular curved prisms (SRCPs). ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 17, 2021
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In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost associate might one day land her in a government probe. In ...
Internet
Jul 22, 2013
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A striking finding of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw 9.0) is that more than 50 meters of coseismic fault slip reached the trench axis. In addition to this, seismological studies found a clear depth-dependent variation ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 5, 2017
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