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STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Google Latitude adds location history, alerts you when friends are nearby
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you're in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don't love your every step tracked -- well, it's ...
Dell's Latitude Z introduces wireless charging (w/ Video)
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell has introduced its new ultra-thin Latitude Z laptop with the world's first wireless laptop battery charger.
Better looks at Mars minerals for ASU instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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A slow drift in the orbit of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that mission controllers started nine months ago is now giving an ASU instrument a better and more sensitive view of minerals on the surface of Mars. ...
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Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...
Cyclone Cleo has reached its maximum wind speed
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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NASA Satellites noticed that Tropical Cyclone Cleo had reached its maximum strength, and was now moving into areas that will weaken it. Cleo's maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (100 knots), with gusts ...
NASA captures a visible image of Cleo's new eye
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has amazing resolution from space, and captured Cleo's cloudless eye early this morning. Cleo has intensified ...
NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured the birth of Tropical Storm Cleo in the southern Indian Ocean today, December 7.
Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...
System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation ...
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.
Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...
Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima
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Nov 30, 2009 |
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Nida is still holding on to Super Typhoon status in the Western Pacific Ocean, and over the weekend, is forecast to pass east of both Iwo To and Chichi Jima islands. Although the center of Nida will remain ...
Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall
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Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...
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