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NASA Releases Radar Images of Large Asteroid
Dec 29, 2015NASA released radar images of a large asteroid that made a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. Scientists said the flyby provided one of the best opportunities in years to gather data about a passing space rock. NASA Jet ...
Tags: NASA, Radar Images, Large Asteroid
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Bacteria Found Living on International Space Station: U.S. Space Agency Study
Dec 29, 2015Opportunistic bacterial pathogens, including those linked to inflammations or skin irritations, have been found living on the International Space Station, according to a study conducted by the U.S. space agency NASA. "Where there are ...
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Advanced Vacuum Apex SLR System Expanding Device Processing at NASA's JPL
Dec 3, 2015Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that a new Apex SLR ICP (inductively coupled plasma) etch system from its Advanced Vacuum division in Lomma, Sweden (which supplies vacuum solutions including ...
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Scientists Using The Herschel Space Observatory Have Made The First Definitive Detection
Jan 22, 2014Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Telescope
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Surging Air Has Intensified Winter Cyclones in The Northwest Pacific
Jan 21, 2014Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have ...
Tags: Service, Air Pollution
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This Week a New Study Published in Nature and Co-Authored
Jan 15, 2014This week a new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada's Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice dynamics and the region's changing ...
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Mars Rover and Its Recent Tracks From Driving in Gale Crater Appear in an Image
Jan 10, 2014NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013. Excerpts from ...
Tags: Curiosity Mars rover, Gale Crater
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Several Sources Confirm That The First Discovered Asteroid in 2014
Jan 7, 2014Figure 1 - This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Credit: CSS/LPL/UA Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid in 2014, ...
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NASA Engineers Like Kinect 2 as They Continue to Work on Spacer Robots
Jan 2, 2014NASA engineers like what they see in Microsoft Kinect 2 as they continue to work on space robots. A NASA video released earlier this month shows how it is leveraging a combination of Kinect 2 along with Oculus Rift, the virtual reality ...
Tags: Kinect 2, space robots, NASA, Oculus Rift, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Statoil & NASA Team to Explore How Technologies & Knowledge Can Be Relevant to Each Other
Nov 28, 2013Statoil and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) have formed a partnership to explore how technologies and knowledge from the space and oil and gas industries can be relevant to one another. Statoil and NASA have ...
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ATA Engineering Has Recently Been Named The Winner of The 2012 George M. Low Award
Jul 8, 2013ATA Engineering has recently been named the winner of the 2012 George M. Low award, NASA's premier quality and performance award recognizing contractors that share the space agency's commitment to technical and managerial excellence. As ...
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TriQuint Semiconductor Reflected on Its Role in Helping Land NASA's Curiosity
Jul 3, 2013RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA reflected on its role in helping land NASA's Curiosity rover safely on Mars as program managers say the mission is reaching a key ...
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After Three and a Half Years in Operation,Amazon Web Services' RDS Is Generally Available
Jun 11, 2013After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services' RDS is finally generally available. Users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple places. The combination of customer adoption, ...
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Augmented Reality and 3D Printing Are The Hottest Emerging Technologies to Watch
Mar 7, 2013Augmented reality and 3D printing are the hottest emerging technologies to watch, according to Tom Soderstrom, chief technology officer for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The impact of both technologies is already being felt with some ...
Tags: 3D Printing, Packaging, Printing, Computer
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CA Has Undergone Many Changes in The Ensuing Decades
Feb 25, 2013Since its first lamp posts were erected in the late 1890s, street lighting in the City of Pasadena, CA, has undergone many changes in the ensuing decades, with every new innovation in lighting. The latest technology that the city has ...
Tags: street lighting, lighting, lamp, LED Lighting