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Google announced the launch of ocean in Google Earth

4 Feb, 2009  No Comments

Google announced the launch of ocean in Google Earth, a new feature that enables users of Google Earth to dive beneath the water surface, explore 3D underwater terrain and browse ocean-related content contributed by leaders in ocean science and advocacy.

The new version of Google Earth also introduces Historical Imagery, a feature that enables users to virtually travel back in time through archival satellite and aerial imagery, Touring, which makes it simple to create a narrated tour in Google Earth and share it with the world and Google Mars 3D, which features hi-res imagery and terrain of the red planet. Continue Reading…

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Earth life headed for Mars moon

9 Jan, 2009  No Comments

Russia is pushing forward on a robotic mission to Mars dubbed Phobos-Grunt — now seemingly on a countdown clock that ticks away for an October launch.

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APOD: The Galactic Core in Infrared

9 Jan, 2009  No Comments

What’s happening at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy? To help find out, the orbiting Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have combined their efforts to survey the region in unprecedented detail in infrared light. Infrared light is particularly useful for probing the Milky Way’s center because visible light is more greatly obscured by dust.

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Space Is Closer Than You Think

9 Jan, 2009  No Comments

The border between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space is closer to the ground than scientists once thought.

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Saturn’s Titan - A Giant Organics Factory

8 Jan, 2009  No Comments

Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

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New NASA Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

8 Jan, 2009  No Comments

NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.

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NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery to Move to Launch Pad Wednesday

8 Jan, 2009  No Comments

Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Jan. 14, as preparations for the STS-119 mission move forward.

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Black holes lead galaxy growth, new research shows

8 Jan, 2009  No Comments

Peek into early universe sheds light on cosmic chicken-and-egg problem Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem — the question of which formed first in the early Universe — galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores.

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Magnets help spacecraft stick together

8 May, 2008  No Comments

Superconducting magnets could one day allow multiple spacecraft to fly in formation – a requirement for many next-generation science missions

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Canada to launch first space mission to hunt asteroids

6 May, 2008  No Comments

A suitcase-sized satellite will search for potentially dangerous asteroids that are hard to spot from the ground

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