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Engineering images bring life to submerged city

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

NRL's SoloHI instrument selected for flight on solar orbiter mission

The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter mission as the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New NASA dawn visuals show Vesta's 'color palette'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

STEREO mission celebrates five incredible years of science

(PhysOrg.com) -- On October 25, 2006 a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Space storm tracked from sun to earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Study reveals structures of solar wind as it travels toward, impacts Earth (w/ video)

Using data collected by NASA's STEREO spacecraft, researchers at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Dawn beams back asteroid science data

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dawn spacecraft has completed a graceful spiral into the first of four planned science orbits during the spacecraft's yearlong visit to Vesta. The spacecraft started taking detailed observations ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Guiding light: how the brain gets wired for stereo vision

(Medical Xpress) -- Nerve cells that transmit light signals from the eye into the brain use a molecule best known for its role in blood vessel growth as a ‘stepping stone’ to help them reach the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

STEREO sees complete far side of the Sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- The far side unveiled! This is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth. Captured on June 1, 2011, the composite image was assembled from NASA's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mars Rover driving leaves distinctive tracks

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Opportunity Mars rover uses an onboard navigation capability during backward drives, it leaves a distinctive pattern in the wheel tracks visible on the Martian ground.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fusion of work and play shapes Lenovo laptops

Chinese computer colossus Lenovo is infusing its leading business laptops with more fun features as Internet Age lifestyles blur lines between work and play.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

STEREO turns its steady gaze on variable stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered 122 new eclipsing binary stars and observed hundreds more variable stars in an innovative survey using NASA's two STEREO solar satellites. The survey has been carried ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First ever STEREO images of the entire Sun (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's official: The sun is a sphere.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First ever whole sun view coming soon from STEREO

"For the first time in the history of humankind we will be able to see the front and the far side of the sun ... Simultaneously," Madhulika Guhathakurta told Universe Today. Guhathakurta is the STEREO Program ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5