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Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has ...





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Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.


Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...


Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...


Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has completed construction of a pilot plant to support development and validation of its carbon capture technology. Final commissioning testing prior to plant operation ...


Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new JPL study examines the impact recent variability in climate is having on the surface temperatures of large lakes in California and Nevada.


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...


Hybrid scanner brings molecular functioning to the forefront

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major barrier to developing a hybrid positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system could be removed by using a novel approach for reconstructing data, according to researchers at SNM's 56th Annual ...


Mars in 2003, from the Hubble Space Telescope

Opportunity Presses On Toward Victoria

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 18, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA's Opportunity rover has driven about 200 more meters (656 feet) to put itself within about 1,100 meters (two-thirds of a mile) of Victoria Crater, its next destination on the Meridiani Planum. As of Martian ...


Light and sound -- the way forward for better medical imaging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Detection and treatment of tumours, diseased blood vessels and other soft-tissue conditions could be significantly improved, thanks to an innovative imaging system being developed that uses both light and sound.


Sandia to Demonstrate Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. MDT in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base. This patent-protected and patent-pending technology ...



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