while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
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while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
With the data he has collected thus far Schmale has built a model of atmospheric circulation that shows large sections of air sweeping across the face of the planet like waves across an ocean transporting dust and microbes thousands of miles.
while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
while others are attacking more abstract ones like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact.
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what he believes is a seal shadowing the sun. Of course biting the diver will be a little a big wad of gume with the camouflage rubber wet suit.
practically anything on the planet certainly sperm cells even skin cells (as this reseach so obviously shows.
In addition to the underlying cause a death certificate has space for up to 20 additional causes. That's where cocaine or antidepressants would show up.
No bees on Mars just sayin...It is GMO CROPS watch the documentary on Netflix or go to rt. com Brainless Americans you are the reasons corporations have taken over our government
Lucas K. â##If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live. â#â##Albert Einsteinthere's a long article Colony collapse disorder on wikipedia that is definitely worth reading
and animals then the statement â##.If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
#Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s Roscosmos the Russian federal space agency will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015 according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin.
The rocket carrying the robotic probe called Luna-Glob will be the first set off from Russia's new Far east launchpad the Vostochny cosmodrome.
Last year President Vladimir Putin pledged to pour $1 billion into the new launch site located near China.
Luna-Glob the first of four planned Russian moon missions will carry scientific equipment to take soil samples
State-run news agency Ria Novosti has said that it will carry dust monitors and plasma sensors to sense high-energy cosmic rays as well.
It will be the first Russian trip to the moon since the 1970s. Roscosmos'latest moon exploration project has been postponed several times
since 2010 and will be its first mission after 2011's Phobos-Grunt failure. The probe set to collect samples from the Martian moon Phobos unsuccessfully aimed its course for Mars
and crashed into the Pacific ocean after two months in Earth's orbit. Luna-Glob and its successors are part of a larger plan to revamp development of Russia's space industry.
Plans are also in development to send a manned spacecraft to the moon in 2018. Washington post I like the moon.
I hope we humans and robots settle there. Besides it will give the humans a place to stay after the robots take over the Earth.
When I read the title I thought they were doing a manned mission. It would be good to see people leave the confines of low orbit for the first time in 50 years.
Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation
and launch facilities on the moon. This is what robots should be doing there about now.
Otherwise we'll never get there in a reasonable amount of time. Can't believe the Russian government will spend billions launching more lunar probes
or even spend billions more on a manned lunar mission in the next 5 years. It has no value to them especially
since the feat has already been accomplished. The only possible reason I can imagine for Putin to make this announcement of a manned lunar program is to create interest within the Chinese government.
The Chinese have aspirations for putting a man on the moon and maybe Putin feels the Russians could make a profit selling a lunar space system to the Chinese.
Well think if we improve our ability to send larger and larger payloads to the moon then we could use it for useful things.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources.
It might not be a huge amount at first but theres thousands of square kilometers up there and we could build it up over time.
Just imagine thousands of kilometers of farm without having to clear cut thousands of kilometers of forest or other habitat on earth...
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources...
Since the lunar environment has none of the resources needed for agriculture (except for sunlight) just how would this take some of the strain off earth's resources?
We would have to launch water CO2 soil chemical fertilizers the materials to construct the greenhouses
Then we would need the massive spacecraft able to transport these agricultural products back to earth.
But don't forget as far as sunlight is concerned. On the moon you have 14 of our days of sunlight and then 14 of our days of dark.
But don't forget as far as sunlight is concerned. On the moon the sunlight is moderated not by an atmosphere.
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#This Woman Sees 100 Times More Colors Than The Average Person When Concetta Antico looks at a leaf she sees much more than just green.
Around the edge I ll see orange or red or purple in the shadow; you might see dark green
#Using Lasers To Save Earth's Cultural Monuments History is unwritten by the destruction of great artifacts.
and spacesuit pioneer ILC Dover to develop its proprietary UV-and weather-resistant fabric. B The first commercial BAT will house a 30-kilowatt turbine
In the Arctic for example there isn't enough sunlight to justify solar power for months at a time
#Satellite data Maps Sea floor's Hidden Depths While many detailed maps exist of Earth s continents
what lies beneath our planet s waters has remained somewhat of a mystery. So far only 10 percent of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution leaving researchers pretty eager to know what s going on in that other 90 percent.
Harnessing never-before-used satellite altimeter data from the European space agency s (ESA) Cryosat-2 and NASA s Jason-1 the scientists have created stunning maps of Earth s entire seafloor bringing to light mountains
and ridges that have never before been charted. The maps give the researchers a new understanding of deep ocean plate tectonics and little-studied ocean basins.
According to lead researcher David Sandwell both the satellites are tasked with capturing the Earth s gravity field over the oceans.
The satellites orbit the earth and sends out thousands of radar pulses a second Sandwell a#geophysics professor#at Scripps.#
By mapping out all the bumps and indentions in the water the researchers had a pretty good snapshot of the variations in the Earth s crust.
what we have with maps of Mars and Mercury Sandwell says. We know more about these other planets than we know about the sea floor.
We need to try to make high resolution maps everywhere.##The researchers published their findings in the journal Science e
or research scientists floating into space. But the finding is especially troubling combined with the news Popular Science reported back in May that the collapse of some West Antarctic glaciers due to rising global temperatures is now very likely unstoppable.
According to the European space agency scientists discovered the gravity change by combining readings from the ESA's GOCE satellite
which has been taking high-resolution measurements of Earth's gravity for the past four years with those of the American-German orbiter GRACE which uses gravity data to measure changes in ice mass.
-or no-carbon economic development projects such as expanding their energy generation capacity with renewables like sun and wind instead of fossil fuels.
#Earth's Water Is Older Than The Sun Since water is one of the vital ingredients for life On earth scientists want to know how it got here.
One theory is that the water in our solar system was created in the chemical afterbirth of the Sun
. If that were the case it would suggest that water might only be common around certain stars that form in certain ways.#
#But a new study published today in Science suggests that at least some of Earth s water actually existed before the Sun was born
--and that it came from interstellar space.##That s certainly something to ponder the next time you drink a glass of water.#
--and maybe life#--may be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy.##If water in the early Solar system was inherited primarily as ice from interstellar space then it is likely that similar ices
along with the prebiotic organic matter that they contain are abundant in most or all protoplanetary disks around forming stars study author Conel Alexander explained in a press release.#
#The researchers concluded that a significant portion of Earth s water came from interstellar space by looking at the relative abundance of hydrogen and deuterium.#
#Deuterium is like hydrogen s heavier#brother. Both atoms have one proton in their nuclei
#In interstellar space for example water ice contains lots of deuterium thanks to the freezing cold temperatures and ionizing radiation.
whether Earth's deuterium came from space or whether it was cooked up in the birth of the Sun.#To find out researchers used mathematical models to#virtually recreate#the young solar system's protoplanetary disk--the cloud around the newborn#Sun. They found that based on the temperature
and radiation conditions that would have existed back then it wasn t possible for the young solar system to create the ratios of hydrogen
and deuterium that scientists observe in Earth s oceans and on comets. Because of that the researchers estimate that anywhere between 7 and 50 percent of Earth s water had to have come from the interstellar medium in
which the solar system was born. And since other solar systems would have formed in the same interstellar medium the findings suggest that the origins of water On earth were not unique
and that the thirst-quenching#life-supporting substance may be common on exoplanets throughout the galaxy x
#Facebook Says Wi-fi Drones Will be sized Jumbo jet If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...
#in the clouds. Facebook wants to spread Wi-fi Internet to unconnected parts of the world with drones
and at#a summit in New york earlier this week the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo jets.
Snake bots slithering like their reptilian namesakes are great at crawling through narrow spaces but they're fairly slow.
When the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing future versions of this battery could release energy captured during more productive times into nations'power grids.
It also might make sun-and wind-produced electricity cheaper; by storing extra energy that isn't being used less electricity is wasted in the long run.
--were housed in little more than a couple of glorified wooden cigar boxes leaving vast amounts of empty space between the rear wheels.
Spacex And Boeing Will Take You Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner-well two actually.
Today NASA announced that two private companies will be tasked with taxiing NASA ASTRONAUTS to and from the International space station beginning in 2017.
And the spoils go to Boeing and Spacex. The companies will sign contracts with NASA to further develop their spacecraft to deliver astronauts to and from the ISS.
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
while Spacex will receive $2. 6 billion to create an upgraded rendition of its Dragon spacecraft aptly named Dragon Version 2. The original Dragon is currently being used to ferry cargo from Earth to the ISS.
The CST-100 and Dragon V2 outwardly look similar to NASA s Orion capsule but they can both hold up to seven crewmembers each.
To get to the ISS Boeing's CST-100 will be launched on the United Launch Alliance's Atlas v rocket
and Spacex will launch the Dragon V2 on its own Falcon 9 v1. 1 rocket. This was not an easy choice NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said at the Sept. 16 announcement
but this is the best choice for NASA and the nation. The partnership is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program
which was established in 2010 to foster the development of a U s. commercial crew space transportation capability.
The idea was to make trips to space both safe and cost effective and private companies have demonstrated for some time that they can send rockets to space for a fraction of the cost.
Most importantly though is that the program will end bring an end to NASA's reliance on Russian spacecraft to ferry astronauts from Earth to the ISS.
Since the end of the Space shuttle program in 2011 NASA ASTRONAUTS have been hitching rides on Russian Soyuz rockets.
The arrangement doesn't do much for the American ego especially since the recent Ukraine conflict has soured the relationship between Russia
and the United states. Plus rides on the Soyuz don't come cheap costing about $70 million a pop.
We don't know for sure how much it will cost to launch the Dragon or the CST-100 but Bigelow Aerospace estimates the cost per ride may be cut almost in half.
Spacex and Boeing beat out a number of other private companies for the NASA gig including another big contender the Sierra nevada Corp. All three companies had been involved in an earlier phase of the program in
which NASA awarded them a total of $1. 4 billion in Space Act Agreements and contracts to get their ideas up and running.
Despite not being chosen for the program Sierra nevada plans to further develop its Shuttle-esque vehicle the Dream Chaser perhaps as a resupply vehicle or for commercial space flight t
#The Rise Of Open source Hardware So in the summer of 2012 Petrone (then an engineer at a Portland startup) launched a site where flexible matrix boards
and laser motion sensors could be sold alongside build-it-yourself weather monitoring kits and robot birds.
but others are large entities like the Australian government Google and NASA. These days Petrone says NASA s purchasing department just calls my cell phone.#
#The site has gained also a strong following from hard-core DIY types. Just as Etsy became the go-to marketplace for craft creators Tindie has become the primary hub for hardware aficionados.
it now stands as the largest collection of open-source hardware on the planet. Nothing on the site is patented
The Doom engine is a computer program that can render 2-D blueprints into a 3-D space.
and create a live data set for every aspect of a space including the electrical engineering millwork and piping.
They beamed radar and lasers into the ground and wheeled scanners over a vast area to study subtle changes in the Earth's magnetic field.#
At rest it looks like a tiny spaceship from a 1930s comic book. It s a type of Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) rarely done with humans on board because#that transition from vertical to horizontal and back again is difficult for onboard human pilots to manage.
#This Weird Tumbleweed Robot Might Change Planetary Exploration This Super Ball Bot is the vision of NASA roboticist Vytas Sunspiral#yes that's his real name
Titan has a surface gravity a little more than one-seventh that of Earth which means the terminal velocity of the robots#the fastest they will fall in Titan's thick atmosphere#is about 33 mph roughly equivalent to the speed reached after a 30-foot drop On earth.
These robots would find it more difficult to survive a drop onto Mars since the red planet has both a thinner atmosphere
and stronger gravity than Titan meaning they would reach a higher terminal velocity. But maybe a simple parachute could slow them down enough for a safe landing Sunspiral says.
which is vital on space missions where space is tight. In addition the fact that all the control systems of the robots fit into caps at the ends of each rod means we can build robots of a variety of scales#we can make the robots twice as big
In addition the researchers also developed a way for the robots to learn how to roll on their own with the help of evolutionary algorithms which is valuable for robots operating by themselves on another planet where the rules for movement might differ from those On earth.
But a great deal more work is needed before this ever becomes a NASA mission Sunspiral says. To help make tensegrity robots a reality Sunspiral
and his colleagues have released the open-source NASA tensegrity robotics toolkit which is online for free and built on the Bullet Physics engine a game physics simulator.
#A Space Game Gets Real 1) Players can purchase virtual ships for $25 to $1250 (in real money) depending on model and availability.
In June 2013 Star Citizen became the most crowdfunded project ever at $10 million. Many people who ponied up knew they would have to wait more than a year in some cases to play. 2) Between six and 16 thrusters move the game s ships
That might strain the ship s components. 2011 Developers begin building Star Citizen in secret revealing just enough details to entice investors. 10/10/12 Crowdfunding campaign begins
Late 2014 A first-person shooter module is set to be introduced. 2015 A planet-side social module will be added allowing players to explore cities. 2015 The single-player military campaign Squadron 42
is slated to release as a stand-alone game within the Star Citizen universe. Late 2015 Early public testing of the universe will begin as the game s designers pull together various modules. 2016 Star Citizen will become available as a seamless universe with modding tools and the ability for players
to host custom servers. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science e
but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.
It's made to carry everything from surveillance cameras and radar to rockets, flares, and some missiles.
#Japan's Military Will Patrol Earth's Orbitals Japan's military plans to take defense to the heavens in 2019.
According to a report by Japan's Kyodo news Agency, Japan's Self-defense Forces plan to add a space monitoring branch,
to be jointly run by the Japan aerospace exploration agency and Air Self-defence Force. The"fourth battlefield"paceontains a lot of stuff that's worth protecting,
A 2013 report from the Satellite Industry Association says that satellites made $189. 5 billion in revenue in 2012.
these satellites perform valuable functions for humans on earth. Since the launch of Telstar in 1962, satellites have relayed terrestrial communications,
and today both cars and smartphones rely on GPS satellites to know exactly where they are.
Japan's proposed space force would monitor Earth's orbitals with radar and telescopes, looking for harmful debris that threatens satellites.
This isn't an inherently apolitical, altruistic task. In 2007, regional rival China blew up one of its own satellites,
proving that it can in fact destroy satellites, and creating harmful debris for other geostationary machines.
In May Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency signed an agreement with the United states where they promised to give information on space debris to U s. Strategic Command.
NASA, together with the Department of defense, already have progams in place monitoring space debris. The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning.
American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea, used geo-locating satellites to calculate target trajectories, so that they could reliably hit the same points on earth from anywhere.
Even as American troopers started fighting in Afghanistan, the Department of defense was floating ideas about"Space Control"to make sure that nothing in space threatened the important American satellites already there.
This new development out of Japan does not come unheralded. In 2008 the country passed a Basic Space Law,
which changed previous laws regarding space in a key way:""Nonmilitary use"became"nonaggressive use."
"This allows Japan the possibility of defensive military action in space, where before the country was limited by previous law and their constitution's intensely pacifistic Article 9. While On earth,
Japan has grown slowly its military, it's unlikely that a new space force means we'll see Japanese war satellites anytime soon.
Japan, like the United states, is one of 89 countries that signed the Outer space Treaty, which formally prohibits putting
and testing weapons in space s
#Solar Sponge Efficiently Makes Steam Generating steam is enormously useful. Much of the world's energy actually comes from steam-coal power plants heat up water to produce water vapor,
which turns turbines to generate electricity. A new technology creates steam by harnessing solar energy, using a relatively cheap sponge-like material,
and it does it with greater efficiency that ever previously achieved, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers don't claim the device could be used to create electricity, at least not yet. But it could relatively easily be scaled up to make fresh water out of salt water via distillation
Graphite absorbs the sun's rays and heats up. This creates a pressure differential that sucks water from the bottom into the top
This sponge converts 85 percent of the solar energy in sunlight it absorbs into heat, the authors wrote in the study,
or using a system of mirrors to concentrate sunlight, which are both more expensive and inefficient
The three-section waterproofed boxes are empty providing 450+sq. inches of free space for electronics along with open deck space for mounting payloads.
#Google commits $1. 36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1. 16 billion lease of the 1000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air station.
and testing in the areas of robotics space exploration aviation and other technologies NASA said in a press release.
NASA also said: Once renovations are complete Hangar One will again be home to high-tech innovation as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research development assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration aviation rover
/robotics and other emerging technologies. Hangars Two and Three will be used for similar purposes. This news comes on the heals of Google investment in Magic Leap last month as well the announcement of Andy Rubin departure r
and the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory both at EPFL in Switzerland have developed a new soft actuator that enables robots to fold.
#Antares orb-3 accident A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday.
The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.
It is a major incident for US spaceflight that breaks a trouble-free period and could have important implications for the private spaceflight sector.
The Antares launcher and the Cygnus spacecraft it was carrying were developed both and operated by Orbital Sciences corporation one of the two private companies
(along with Spacex) under contract from NASA for supplying the International Space station with cargo supplies and secondary experimental and commercial ISS payload.
The video below shows that the explosion started from the base of the rocket close to the nozzles
while the rest above was intact. The first stage engines are the major suspect but it is still too early to know exactly what went wrong.
As stated by NASA's press conference the flight termination system was activated. This is a remote manual intervention that initiates a self-destruction mechanism
Unlike Spacex which is almost completely vertically integrated Orbital outsources most of its components and focuses on system integration and design.
Antares is a two-stage rocket and in its first stage it uses a pair of liquid propellant motors originally designed (and constructed!)
during the 60s for the Soviet N-1 rocket. Despite their age these motors are advanced highly more so than most contemporary rocket engines.
They were constructed as NK-33s in Russia but they are refurbished from US Company Aerojet (and renamed AJ26).
but it is worth mentioning that the use of Russian rocket engines from US operators recently became a very sensitive matter.
and ULA (the USA defense contractor for space launches that also use Russian made RD-180 engines) in an uncomfortable position.
Meanwhile the competition from Spacex and established companies like Lockheed and Boeing is very strong.
During the press conference that took place shortly after the accident NASA official stated their satisfaction from the way Orbital operates
and their will to resume Antares/Cygnus missions after the accident investigation is resolved. The COTS program apart from its obvious mission of ISS resupply also aims to validate the privately developed Dragon and Cygnus spacecraft.
Both usually have room and payload to spare so they're used extensively for transporting experiments.
The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.
For example Planet labs an earth imaging startup lost 26 small satellites that were on board. Orbital stated that the payload is insured
The rocket and general hardware is also at least partially covered and as stated on the press conference NASA
and Orbital will find a way to deal with the cost of any replacements. Any correlation between payload and this accident is practically impossible so the rules
Nevertheless today there is unprecedented activity over commercial spaceflight even if we are still very far away from the glory days of nationally funded Apollo or Space shuttle.
Competition will certainly make access to space easier and cheaper for everyone even with occassional incidents like this along the way a
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