News tagged with imagery
Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.
It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up.
Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...
Aqua satellite sees Tropical Storm Bongani approaching Mozambique Channel
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Cyclone Bongani today and provided some important data that have helped forecasters figure out where the storm is headed, and helped them see that it has changed course.
Google unveils free GPS navigation for mobile phones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones on Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices.
Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast.
NASA satellite tracking Typhoon Lupit on a march toward the northern Philippines
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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Three instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite captured views of Typhoon Lupit on its western track toward the Philippines and are helping forecasters get an idea of its strength and behavior. Lupit strengthened ...
Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.
Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary ...
NASA satellite sees Hurricane Jimena explode in strength over 4 days
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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Hurricane Warnings are up for the southern Baja California, as powerful Category Four Hurricane Jimena threatens. Jimena developed over the weekend, and the infrared instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured ...
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
Baja watching Tropical Storm Patricia in the latest GOES-11 satellite movie
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of ...
NASA's infrared satellite images reveal Ketsana's deadly western Pacific march
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Ketsana during its lifetime and captured infrared imagery on a daily basis. The images showed high, cold, thunderstorm cloud tops (purple) as cold as -63F, as they dumped ...
Aqua satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.
