News tagged with high resolution

New views show old NASA Mars landers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

A bouncing moon boulder

One solitary boulder on the Moon apparently decided to take a little journey. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured the track of a bouncing, rolling 9-meter boulder that used to sit along the rim ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Renowned physicist invents microscope that can peer at living brain cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since scientists began studying the brain, they’ve wanted to get a better look at what was going on. Researchers have poked and prodded and looked at dead cells under electron microscopes, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Photo from NASA Mars orbiter shows wind's handiwork

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A breakthrough in superlens development: Cheap, simple lens to let us see a single virus

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

British government to fund 3D laser cameras for highway crash site investigations

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the banes of modern existence is surely the time spent in traffic backups. Oftentimes these backups occur as the result of accidents and the resulting investigative work that goes on ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Study resolves century-long debate over how to describe electromagnetic momentum density in matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of British Columbia have shown that the interaction between a light pulse and a light-absorbing object, including the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Meteorite shockwaves trigger dust avalanches on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust avalanches around impact craters on Mars appear to be the result of the shock wave preceding the actual impact, according to a study led by an undergraduate student at the UA.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

With 'Google Earth' for Mars, explore the red planet from home

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new software tool developed by the HiRISE team in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab allows members of the public to download high-resolution images of the Martian landscape almost instantaneously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

2 top biological imaging centers offer powerful free online tool to researchers and public

The collaboration of two leading cell image resource centers now provides a more extensive and advanced facility for archiving, sharing, and analyzing microscope images in great detail. The American Society for Cell Biology ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technique to see crystals like never before

An international team of scientists led by the Fresnel Institute and the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble has developed a new technique allowing to observe the nanometer-sized structure ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi sign joint venture deal

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi on Tuesday said they had signed a deal to merge their small and medium-sized liquid crystal display businesses for smartphones and tablet computers.

Technology / Business

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GigaBlitz event seeks citizen scientists to capture images of nearby biodiversity

From a bike path in Montana to a backwater underneath a highway overpass in Austria, citizen scientists fanned out last June to capture high-resolution images for the first Nearby Nature GigaBlitz. Organizers are hoping for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simulating real-world surfaces

These days, cars are developed on computers, and to assist with this, designers want processes which generate realistic surfaces such as seat covers. Researchers have now developed high-resolution scanners ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mapping the formation of an underwater volcano

On Oct. 9 an underwater volcano started to emerge in waters off El Hierro Island in the Canaries, Spain. Researchers of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO, Ministry of Science and Innovation) only needed 15 days to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0