New study suggests infrasound may play an important role in how seabirds navigate
How seabirds navigate across thousands of miles of seemingly featureless ocean is one of nature's mysteries.
How seabirds navigate across thousands of miles of seemingly featureless ocean is one of nature's mysteries.
Plants & Animals
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Don't let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It's what's on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation.
Quantum Physics
Oct 26, 2021
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With Artemis, NASA will establish a long-term presence at the Moon, opening more of the lunar surface to exploration than ever before. This growth of lunar activity will require new, more robust communications, navigation, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2021
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Societies around the world now depend on satellite-based navigation systems, such as GPS, for a multitude of applications, including transportation, agriculture, military munitions, emergency services, and social networking, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2021
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It's best not to look directly at the sun unless you're one of NASA's sun-observing instruments. And even then, doing so will cause some damage. Exposure to the sun degrades light sensors of all kinds, from the retinas in ...
Astronomy
Sep 8, 2021
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The Dead Sea is shrinking. There are many reasons for this: climate change is a contributing factor, as is human overuse of water as a resource. The sinking water level has a number of dangerous consequences. For example, ...
Environment
Jul 28, 2021
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Researchers from the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new method to realize absolute calibration of multi-mode satellite navigation receiver delay.
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2021
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A navigation timing error sent NASA's little Mars helicopter on a wild, lurching ride, its first major problem since it took to the Martian skies last month.
Space Exploration
May 28, 2021
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The European Space Agency presented a vision Thursday to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth's closest neighbor.
Space Exploration
May 20, 2021
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As international teams across the world forge plans to revisit the moon, ESA is elaborating how best to facilitate this exploration.
Space Exploration
May 20, 2021
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