A new photo taken from the International Space Station shows an ecologically diverse area of Panama in a new light. Continue reading
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility to Use Earth Networks’ Total Lightning Data and Weather …
GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug and operator of the largest weather, lightning detection and climate observation networks, announces it will be delivering lightning data from its total lightning detection network to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF). Continue reading
Heliosphere – Wiki Article – Video
Heliosphere – Wiki Article The heliosphere is a bubble of charged particles in the space surrounding the Solar System, “blown” into the interstellar medium (the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates the galaxy) by the solar w… Continue reading
NASA Model – CME Plotted to 10 Astro. Units – Video
NASA Model – CME Plotted to 10 Astro. Units Enlil model for the March 2012 coronal mass ejection, plotted out to ten astronomical units (beyond the orbit of Saturn). The top view slices the data in the plane of the Earth's orbit and projects the planetary orbits onto that Continue reading
Moon libration phase 2013 – Video
Moon libration phase 2013 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization StudioFrom:zelenyikoteykaViews:180 3ratingsTime:05:16More inScience Technology Continue reading
NASA | Moon Phase
NASA | Moon Phase Libration: Moon With Additional Graphics This visualization shows the moon's phase and libration throughout the year 2013, at hourly intervals. Each frame represents one hour. Continue reading
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice at MIT – Video
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice at MIT Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News: web.mit.edu The MITgcm website: mitgcm.org And the website for NASA's ECCO2 ecco2.org About the animation The simulation was conducted with the MIT coupled ocean-sea ice general circulation model, or in short, MITgcm. The configuration was constructed as part of the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean Phase II, or ECCO2 project. Continue reading
Beautiful Earth – Biosphere Filmed from Oct 2001 till Sep 2006 – Video
Beautiful Earth – Biosphere Filmed from Oct 2001 till Sep 2006 On land, the dark greens show where there is abundant vegetation and tans show relatively sparse plant cover. Continue reading
Simulation of the Atmosphere – How Aerosols Paint the Modeled world. – Video
Simulation of the Atmosphere – How Aerosols Paint the Modeled world. Continue reading
Paint by Particle – Video
Paint by Particle Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within Earth's atmosphere. Continue reading
Amazing UFO Near the Sun Captured – Video
Amazing UFO Near the Sun Captured Here is a cigar shaped UFO captured by the Helioviewer. This UFO is very large. There have been lots of UFO craft appearing near the sun. Continue reading
NASA’s Animated Dynamics of Hurricane Bonnie – Video
NASA's Animated Dynamics of Hurricane Bonnie This animation of Hurricane Bonnie uses data from NASA's TRMM Satellite. Beginning with a wide view of the world, we zoom in on a swath of atmosphere taken by TRMM. Continue reading
Sandy’s Hurricane Track Spied by Satellite – Video
Sandy's Hurricane Track Spied by Satellite An animation of satellite observations from Oct. Continue reading
Sandy’s Storm Track Spied by Satellite – Video
Sandy's Storm Track Spied by Satellite An animation of satellite observations from Oct. Continue reading
Japan spacecraft docks at space station
The third in a series of robotic Japanese spaceships safely arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, bearing a delivery of food, equipment and student science experiments for the orbital outpost. The unmanned, school bus-size H-2 Transfer Vehicle-3 (HTV-3), also called Kounotori 3 (“White Stork” in Japanese), flew to about 40 feet (12 meters) away from the ISS, where it was grabbed at 8:23 a.m. Continue reading
'White stork' delivers new research and technology investigations to International Space Station
ScienceDaily (July 25, 2012) A “white stork” is soon to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. But it’s not the typical stork you associate with baby deliveries. Continue reading
Space station cargo blasts off
An unmanned Japanese spaceship soared into orbit from an island launch site on Friday, beginning a weeklong journey to deliver vital supplies to astronauts living on the International Space Station. The H-2 Transfer Vehicle-3 (HTV-3), nicknamed Kounotori 3 (Japanese for “White Stork 3″), is delivering student science projects, a new camera system, as well as food and spare equipment. Continue reading
NASA | Shackleton Crater – Video
21-06-2012 13:22 This visualization, created using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter laser altimeter data, offers a view of Shackleton Crater located in the south pole of the moon. Continue reading
NASA Visualization Explorer, v.1.5 (for iPad)
Version 1.5 of NASA Visualization Explorer (for iPad) improves on a useful science app that I reviewed in version 1.0.3. The latest version adds larger images, pinch and zoom-ability, marking of favorites, playlists of stories, and the ability to save stories for offline reading Continue reading
Taming light with graphene
ScienceDaily (June 20, 2012) Scientists have visualized the trapping and confinement of light on graphene, making a sheet of carbon atoms the most promising candidate for optical information processing on the nano-scale, optical detection, and ultrafast optoelectronics. Continue reading