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Typhoon Morakot's cloud top extent doubled in size in one day

Satellite imagery over the last two days has shown Typhoon Morakot to be a monster, and over the last two days, NASA satellites have confirmed the typhoon doubled its size!

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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NASA mission sending unmanned aircraft over hurricanes this year

Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers use XBox technology to make 'space building blocks'

Space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing ‘STRaND-2’, a twin-satellite mission to test a novel in-orbit docking system based upon XBOX Kinect technology ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Storm Sanvu continue to intensify

Two NASA satellites have provided infrared and rainfall data that has shown Tropical Storm Sanvu continues to intensify as it heads toward Iwo To, Japan. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NRL RAIDS experiment advances ionospheric remote sensing

Naval Research Laboratory scientists have obtained a first-ever measured altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission that provides vital information needed to test and improve ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Frugal innovation

Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can generate breakthrough growth not only in the developing world ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Navigating the shopping center

With a GPS receiver in your smartphone, you can navigate your way over highways and streets with certainty. But once you get inside a building, it provides no further assistance. That’s why Fraunhofer ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wise catches aging star erupting with dust

(Phys.org) -- Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA views our perpetually moving ocean

(Phys.org) -- The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.

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created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Hyperspectral imaging: Shedding new light on wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Clinicians who treat severe wounds may soon have powerful new diagnostic tools in the form of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices, calibrated to new NIST standard reference spectra, which will ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to corner the MEMS market

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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