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NASAs next generation Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) observatory inside the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD. Technicians at work on final processing during exclusive up-close inspection tour by Universe Today. GPM is slated to launch on February 27, 2014 and will provide global measurements of rain and snow every 3 hours. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MARYLAND - Weather researchers and forecasters worldwide are gushing with excitement in the final days leading to blastoff of the powerful, new Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory built by NASA in a joint effort with Japan.
GPM is a next-generation satellite that will provide global, near real time observations of rain and snow from space and thereby open a new revolutionary era in global weather observing and climate science. Therefore it will have a direct impact on society and peoples daily lives worldwide.
The team is counting down to liftoff in less than 5 days, on Feb. 27 at 1:07 PM EST from the Tanegashima Space Center, on Tanegashima Island off southern Japan, atop the highly reliable Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket.
The GPM launch to low Earth orbit was delayed by both natural and manmade disasters namely the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan as well as the ridiculous US government shutdown in Oct. 2013.
Visualization of the GPM Core Observatory satellite orbiting the planet earth. Credit: NASA Goddard
The $933 Million mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japans space agency.
The mission will significantly advance our understanding of Earths water and energy cycles and improve forecasting of extreme weather events.
It is equipped with an advanced, higher resolution dual -frequency precipitation (DPR) radar instrument (Ku and Ka band) built by JAXA in Japan and the GPM microwave imager (GMI) built by Ball Aerospace in the US.
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Image Caption: Giant perturbations called hot flow anomalies in the solar wind near Venus can pull the upper layers of its atmosphere, the ionosphere, up and away from the surface of the planet. Credit: NASA
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According to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, space weather around Venus is much harsher than what is experienced around Earth.
Scientists have discovered that the space weather around Venus can have such large explosions that they are bigger than the entire planet. They also said that these giant explosions can happen multiple times per day.
Not only are they gigantic. but as Venus doesnt have a magnetic field to protect itself, the hot flow anomalies happen right on top of the planet. They could swallow the planet whole, said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
When the sun unleashes a large explosion of plasma, or a coronal mass ejection, it shoots out charged particles towards planets, creating space weather. Earths magnetosphere, the giant magnetic bubble surrounding the planet, helps to protect us from space weather. However, Venus doesnt have a chance to protect itself against such weather.
Venus is a barren, inhospitable planet that features an atmosphere so dense it can crush a spacecraft trying to land on its surface within hours. Because Venus has no magnetic protection, it makes it a great experiment for what Earth would look like without its magnetosphere.
Hot flow anomalies are unable to penetrate Earths magnetosphere to get down to the surface of the planet, and this releases so much energy just outside that the solar wind can be deflected and forced back towards the sun. However, the situation on Venus is much different than what is seen on Earth.
The only protection Venus has from the solar wind is the charged outer layer of its atmosphere known as the ionosphere. Scientists know that there is a sensitive pressure balance between the ionosphere and the solar wind, which can easily be disrupted by a big coronal mass ejection. The hot flow anomalies on Venus create dramatic, planet-scale disruptions, sucking the ionosphere up and away from the surface of the planet, according to the new study.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) The no vacancy sign is up for the Red Sox rotation.
With five veteran starters, the World Series champions have no openings. But if they did, there would be several outstanding young candidates competing for them and others not too far away.
Coming off a brilliant postseason, Jon Lester leads the starting staff after pitching a career-high 2131/3 innings. Clay Buchholz, John Lackey, Jake Peavy and Felix Doubront complete the group that should have little trouble weathering Ryan Dempsters decision not to play in 2014 for physical and personal reasons.
Brandon Workman heads the young group after a year in which he wasnt even in the major league camp yet went 6-3 with the Red Sox. Manager John Farrell showed faith by having him pitch the eighth inning he retired St. Louis in order of Bostons clinching Game 6 of the World Series.
The more pitching, the better.
I dont think any of us have any false confidence or an embarrassment of riches because weve seen that pitching is a game of attrition, Farrell said Friday. We went through 20-something relievers last year so we were fortunate, with the exception of maybe Clays situation, we were relatively healthy in the rotation. But that can change in a moments notice.
Like when Dempster surprised management about two weeks ago with his decision not to play the final year of his contract.
So the Red Sox added left-hander Chris Capuano to work in the bullpen and as insurance for the rotation.
The starting staff could definitely be as good as any Ive been on, said Lackey, entering his 12th season. We were the last ones standing last year, so that says something.
Lackey missed the 2012 season following Tommy John surgery, had a 3.52 ERA and then allowed one run in 62/3 innings of Bostons 6-1 win that clinched its third championship in 10 years.
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The Associated Press This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo released by NASA shows crews testing a test version of Orion's forward bay cover, NASA's next-generation space capsule. NASA and the Navy suspended the test Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 off the coast of San Diego after a problem was discovered. (AP Photo/NASA)
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SAN DIEGO (AP) A training exercise designed to showcase the governments ability to recover a space capsule at sea was scrubbed after NASA ran into trouble off the Southern California coast, the space agency said Friday.
Crews had difficulty tying down a mock-up of the Orion capsule aboard an amphibious warship off the shores of San Diego.
NASA said cables attached to the capsule werent strong enough to handle turbulence and snapped off twice while it was in the well deck of the USS San Diego before it could be moved out to sea on Thursday.
With the Orion mock-up still on the Navy ship, teams could not practice fetching the spacecraft from the ocean.
Even though the testing didnt go as we had planned, were learning lessons that will help us be better prepared to retrieve Orion, Bill Hill of NASA headquarters said in a statement.
Engineers were troubleshooting the problem, and it was not clear when the test would be rescheduled.
NASA has been developing a next-generation spacecraft to carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, possibly to an asteroid or Mars. Orion, which will make its first unmanned test flight this fall, is being designed to travel to deep space and return at speeds of 25,000 mph by splashing down into the Pacific.
The water landing is a throwback to the 1960s and 1970s when Navy ships routinely tracked and recovered Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft after re-entering Earths atmosphere.
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NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST (18:00 UTC), Wednesday, Feb. 26, to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.Briefing participants:-- Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet exploration program scientist, NASAs Astrophysics Division in Washington-- Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist, NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.-- Jason Rowe, research scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.-- Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.Launched in March 2009, Kepler was the first NASA mission to find Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone -- the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since detected planets and planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances. These findings have led to a better understanding of our place in the galaxy.For dial-in information, media should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington atj.d.harrington@nasa.govno later than 12 noon EST, Wednesday.The public is invited to listen to the teleconference live via UStream:http://www.ustream.tv/nasa-arcQuestions can be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA.Audio of the teleconference also will be streamed live:http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudioA link to relevant graphics will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASAs Kepler site:http://www.nasa.gov/keplerContacts:J.D. HarringtonNASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.+1 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.govMichele JohnsonAmes Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.+1 650-604-6982michele.johnson@nasa.gov
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Australian electronic band Cut Copy paired with another creative group when it came time to create a video for the band's "We Are Explorers," off of last year's well-regarded album Free Your Mind-- Tokyo- and New York-based creative lab/supergroup Party.
The result is a fun video in which a pair of little 3-D printed characters run around city streets at night, collecting disposable artifacts (cigarette butts, CDs, etc) that might have different value if you're just a couple of inches tall.
"The idea started with 'What if we 3-D printed a music video,'" co-director Aramique Krauthamer explains. "Both [co-director] Masa [Kawamura] and I have done different kinds of stop-motion, and we had been discussing the possibility of creating a narrative where every frame of movement was 3-D printed and shot in the street. When we heard 'We Are Explorers,' we immediately began imagining this story of tiny 3-D printed characters running through the streets of a major city on an epic journey."
The video's concept began with storyboards, and then the design of the two characters in Cinema4D by Mau Morgo. Technical director Qanta Shimizu then determined that the project would require "roughly 200 figurines," which were used in groups of eight, for each type of movement--that is, running sequences used eight figurines, looped, to create the effect. The figurines were printed with a yellow, UV-reactive filament, and shot at night under black light flashlights, lit by the project's DP, Sesse Lind.
The "how to" aspect of the video is important, because in addition to being an impressive creative project, it's also fully remixable: That is, the team worked directly with BitTorrent to distribute a bundle that contains the music, the video, and all the 3-D printing files, and encourages fans to re-create the process to tell, upload, and share their own stories.
"We hope people enjoy the film, the music, the figurines, and the process that went into making it," Kawamura says. "Hopefully people print the figurines, play with them, shoot them, make new storylines we didn't think of, take them to places we couldn't, and share whatever they do with everyone--so we can enjoy the process together."
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Duke University Health SystemDr. Victor J. Dzau, the current president and CEO of Duke University Health System
Dr. Victor J. Dzau, the current president and CEO of Duke University Health System and chancellor for health affairs at Duke University, has been appointed to a six-year term as the next president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), effective July 1, 2014. Dr. Dzau will take over the lead role from Dr. Harvey Fineberg, who served in the position for twelve years.
Dr. Dzau began his career in medicine as a cardiologist, having previously taught at Harvard Medical School and served as chair of the department of medicine. He also worked at Brigham and Womens Hospital as the director of research. His ongoing award-winning research has been key in the development of cardiovascular drugs, as well as techniques to repair tissue damage from heart attacks and heart disease using stem cell therapies.
Dr. Eugene Braunwald, often called the father of modern cardiology and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has known Dr. Dzau for more than 40 years and worked with him at many different stages of his career at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Partners Healthcare. In an interview Wednesday he called the upcoming IOM president a force of nature.
He is what I would call a talented, quadruple threat. A great physician, inspiring teacher, and a very creative scientist, said Dr. Braunwald, who trained Dzau when he was a resident at Brigham and Womens and continued to work with him on cardiovascular research when Dr. Dzau became chief resident, and then faculty at Harvard Medical School. The quadruple threat is that he also sees the larger picture. Hes interested in areas of medicine that most academic physicians have stayed away from. His work and ideas in global and community-based medicine have left an important heritage at each institution where hes worked.
After nearly a decade at Duke, Dr. Dzaus leadership has been credited with the launch of a number of innovative and global-focused medical institutions, including the Duke-National University of Signapore Graduate Medical School, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Institute for Health Innovation, Duke Cancer Institute, as well as the Duke Translational Medicine Institute.
Im deeply honored to become the next president of the IOM and recognize the critically important role that the IOM will have in improving the health of the nation at a time of extraordinary evolution in biomedical research and health care delivery, Dzau said in a press release from Duke University Health System. The explosion of new data resources, novel technologies and breathtaking research advances make this the most promising time in history for driving innovations that will improve health care delivery, outcomes and quality.
As the health sciences extension of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine is known for its leadership in advancing health sciences and objective medical research nationally as a nonprofit academic research organization. The outgoing IOM president, Dr. Harvey Fineberg (previously Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) has lead the nonprofit for twelve years. His focus and research have centered around public health policy and an improvement in informed medical decision making.
This leaves the medical community wondering what Dr. Dzau will bring to the Institute.
As a former chairman of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), Dr. Dzau advocated for the innovative transition of academic medical and health centers into institutions that can survive the rapid transitions in the health care industry. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Dzau discusses the uncertain future of academic medical centers. He argues that industry pressures and cost restraints from the Affordable Care Act limit the research and education-based missions of teaching hospitals.
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