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New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...





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STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...


Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.


Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum ...


Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

PIC=32536:left]Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research.


Aircraft that can see for themselves

Aircraft that can see for themselves (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have made two important advances in the development of unmanned aircraft capable of seeing for themselves as they fly fast and low over dangerous terrain.


A bubbling ball of gas

A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 7

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...


Noise Evidence Could Expand Hurricane Record

Noise Evidence Could Expand Hurricane Record

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

As sea-surface temperatures rise across the globe, some scientists believe that hurricane frequency and intensity may increase. A fresh technique offers promise to generate new data from long-dead storms, ...


Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On beautiful, sunny days with quiet weather conditions a strong wind develops in the evening at a height of about 200 metres.


NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations

NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...


Snail fossils suggest semiarid eastern Canary Islands were wetter 50,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands show that the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa has become progressively drier over the past 50,000 years.



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