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

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

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

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

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 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