Researchers estimate ice content of crater at Moon's south pole - 0 views
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole
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using laser light from LRO's laser altimeter examined the floor of Shackleton crater
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the crater's floor is brighter than those of other nearby craters, which is consistent with the presence of small amounts of
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Australian police get hand-held 3D crime scene laser scanner - 0 views
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Police in Queensland Australia have reported
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that they now have and are using a device
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hand held and can be used to laser scan a crime scene in just a matter of minutes for creation of a 3D image
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Memories 'geotagged' with spatial information - 0 views
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Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists
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has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form "geotags" for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.
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work shows how spatial information is incorporated into memories and why remembering an experience can quickly bring to mind other events that happened in the same place
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Russia May Land Probe on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede with Europe's JUICE Mission | Space.com - 0 views
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A Russian probe being designed to land on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, could launch toward the gas giant with a European spacecraft being developed to explore Jupiter's icy ocean-covered satellites, according to European space officials.
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more Earthly concerns, such as government finances and the realities of technical developments, could thwart the proposal
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JUICE is scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, entering orbit around the huge planet and making repeated flybys of three of its largest moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa
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European Satellite, Out of Fuel, Will Plunge to Earth Next Month | Space.com - 0 views
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A European gravity-mapping satellite has run out of fuel and will likely die a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere
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Oct. 21
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The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short, exhausted its supply of xenon fuel on
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Planck's Cosmic Map Reveals Universe Older, Expanding More Slowly - 0 views
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show the same 10-square-degree patch of sky as seen by NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, and Planck.
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Planck has a resolution about 2.5 times greater than WMAP
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This graphic
Curiosity Demonstrates New Capability to Scan 360 Degrees for Life Giving Water - and i... - 0 views
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The science team guiding NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover have demonstrated a new capability that significantly enhances the robots capability to scan her surroundings for signs of life giving water
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from a distance
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the rover appears to have found that evidence for water at the Gale Crater landing site is also more widespread than prior indications.
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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a spacecraft which measures differences in the temperature of the Big Bang's remnant radiant heat – the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation – across the full sky
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The WMAP spacecraft was launched on June 30, 2001,
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The WMAP mission succeeds the COBE space mission and was the second medium-class (MIDEX) spacecraft of the Explorer program.
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Yosemite's Iconic El Capitan Mapped in High-Resolution 3D - 0 views
Twinkle, twinkle little star: New app measures sky brightness - 0 views
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Researchers from the German "Loss of the Night" project have developed an app for Android smart phones, which counts the number of visible stars in the sky
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The data from the app will be used by scientists to understand light pollution on a world wide scale.
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The smartphone app will evaluate sky brightness, also known as skyglow, on a worldwide scale
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Trekking the Grand Canyon for Google Maps | Official Google Blog - 0 views
Local transit times | Venustransit - 0 views
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Your local circumstances are computed below. You can change the location by either dragging the marker on the map or searching for an address. From the menu on the top right you can specify the year of the transit (1639 to 2125). Clicking the icon at the top right corner of the map, you can switch the area of visibility on and off. Click on the icon on the lower right for more detailed information, including times of sunrise and sunset.
How Can You See a Satellite View of Your House? - 0 views
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there are more than 8,000 satellites currently orbiting the Earth
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The vast majority
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are relaying data to and from the Earth
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Discovery of historical photos sheds light on Greenland ice loss - 0 views
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Researchers at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark
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had been storing the glass plates since explorer Knud Rasmussen's expedition to the southeast coast of Greenland in the early 1930s.
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Ohio State University researchers and colleagues in Denmark describe how they analyzed ice loss in the region by comparing the images on the plates to aerial photographs and satellite images taken from World War II to today.
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NASA beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon (w/ video) - 0 views
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To clean up transmission errors introduced by Earth's atmosphere (left), Goddard scientists applied Reed-Solomon error correction (right), which is commonly used in CDs and DVDs.
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Typical errors include missing pixels (white) and false signals (black). The white stripe indicates a brief period when transmission was paused
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As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.
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Universe is a teeny bit older than thought | Matter & Energy | Science News - 0 views
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Launched by the European Space Agency in 2009, the Planck satellite scans the sky for the cosmic microwave background, radiation that dates back to about 380,000 years after the Big Bang
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Planck is essentially a supersensitive thermometer that can probe the temperature of this radiation to millionths of a degree
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The red spots in the map are about 1 part in 100,000 hotter than the average temperature, while the blue spots are slightly colder
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Google Lat Long: Notes from the top of the world: A behind-the-scenes look at our lates... - 0 views
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highest altitude
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reached was 18,192 feet
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higher than anywhere in the contiguous U.S
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