News tagged with microwave
New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida (w/ Video)
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.
Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.
Typhoon Mirinae is already scaring Philippine residents before Halloween
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31. Mirinae will be the fourth ...
Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend. As Mirinae has moved west, NASA's infrared and microwave satellite imagery ...
Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...
NASA gets a 3-D look at Neki becoming extra-tropical
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Oct 26, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites are watching Tropical Storm Neki become extra-tropical, and TRMM data was used to create a three-dimensional image of the storm.
Luzon expecting a Lupit landfall
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Typhoon Lupit is closing in on northern Luzon, the Philippines, and is expected to make a brief landfall (of about 24 hours) there October 22 before heading into the South China Sea.
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Neki form in the Central Pacific
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Tropical Storm Neki formed today about 830 miles southeast of Johnston Island in the Central Pacific Ocean. NASA's QuikScat and Aqua satellites quickly captured and analyzed winds and temperatures in Neki, ...
NASA's TRMM satellite captures Typhoon Melor as it reaches Japan
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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Melor began as a tropical depression back on the 29th of September 2009 about 1000 miles (~1600 km) east-southeast of Guam in the Northern Mariana Islands. Over the next couple of days, the system steadily ...
Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water ...
New research brings 'invisible' into view (w/ Video)
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures ...
First light for BOSS -- a new kind of search for dark energy
Oct 01, 2009 |
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BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). A part of the ...
Fujitsu Develops Millimeter-Wave Gallium-Nitride Transceiver Amplifier Chipset
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Fujitsu announced today the development of the world's first gallium-nitride HEMT-based transceiver amplifier chipset for broadband wireless transmission equipment operating in the millimeter bandwidth, the ...
NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...
