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NASA sees Tropical Storm Danny form, US East Coast on watch

NASA sees Tropical Storm Danny form, US East Coast on watch

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An area of low pressure east of the Bahamas has now powered up into Tropical Storm Danny, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured his strengthening thunderstorms in infrared imagery. Danny came together this morning, ...


Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye

Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...


NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada

NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Bill is still holding onto hurricane status near Nova Scotia, and will be bringing a lot of rain and heavy surf to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Today, Sunday, August 23, NASA infrared ...


NASA watches as Hurricane Bill sweeps over Bermuda

NASA watches as Hurricane Bill sweeps over Bermuda

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hurricane Bill was raining on Bermuda on Friday, August 21, 2009, and NASA satellites were providing forecasters with information about Bill's rainfall, clouds and winds.


NASA's Aqua satellite gets two views of category 4 Hurricane Bill

NASA's Aqua satellite gets two views of category 4 Hurricane Bill

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hurricane Bill has become a powerhouse in the Atlantic Ocean and NASA satellites are providing forecasters with important information to help their forecasts. Bill is now a category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson ...


2 NASA satellites capture Hurricane Bill's 'baby pictures'

2 NASA satellites capture Hurricane Bill's 'baby pictures'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bill was the third tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, behind Ana and Tropical Depression One. Over the weekend Bill grew into the first hurricane in the Atlantic this season. Two NASA ...


Tropical depression 2 on shaky ground, 3 other areas to watch on weekend

Tropical depression 2 on shaky ground, 3 other areas to watch on weekend

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The Atlantic Ocean's second Tropical Depression has been on shaky ground since it formed early in the week of August 11. It meandered westward from the African coast and maintained its tropical depression ...


Improving AF situational awareness with smart satellite imagery

Improving AF situational awareness with smart satellite imagery

Technology / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and small business Geosemble Technologies are improving Air Force situational awareness with software that presents vast amounts of map data in ...


Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have constructed a mathematical activity model of the brain's frontal and parietal parts, to increase the understanding of the capacity of the working ...


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UCLA geographers urge U.S. to search 3 structures in Pakistan for bin Laden

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 ...


New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D

New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before ...


'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

Biology /

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 7

Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ...



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