The observations were made by the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) aboard the European space agency's Rosetta spacecraft on June 6 2014.
but we were surprised at how early we detected it said Sam Gulkis principal investigator of the MIRO instrument at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California.
and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments said Matt Taylor Rosetta's project scientist from the European space agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk The netherlands.
NASA also provided part of the electronics package for the Double Focusing Mass spectrometer which is built part of The swiss Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument.
NASA's Deep space Network is supporting ESA's Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation.
d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique of the Observatoire de Paris Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA.
French National Space agency Paris; and the Italian Space agency Rome. JPL a Division of the California Institute of technology Pasadena manages the U s. contribution of the Rosetta mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
JPL also built the MIRO and hosts its principal investigator Samuel Gulkis. The Southwest Research Institute (San antonio and Boulder) developed the Rosetta orbiter's IES
and Alice instruments and hosts their principal investigators James Burch (IES) and Alan Stern (Alice). For more information on the U s. instruments aboard Rosetta visit:
http://rosetta. jpl. nasa. govmore information about Rosetta is available at: http://www. esa. int/rosettafor more information on the DSN visit:
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#Foodborne bacteria can cause disease in some breeds of chickens after allcontrary to popular belief the foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is not a harmless commensal in chickens
but can cause disease in some breeds of poultry according to research published in mbioâ the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
The researchers fired pellets of randomly oriented multiwalled carbon nanotubes from a light gas gun built by the Rice lab of materials scientist Enrique Barrera with funding from NASA.
Dwomoh has received a NASA Earth and Space science Fellowship to support his research on deforestation in West Africa.
and information from NASA tropical rainfall and fire data to analyze the impact of fires on the region.
and her colleagues have been using data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite to track changes in land use in Mato grosso.
The researchers paired NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration satellite records with data from a network of University of California weather stations covering 32 consecutive winters.
Through a three-year $602349 NASA grant Numata and a team of scientists will assess how the 2005 and 2010 droughts affected the forest edges
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA. The widespread melting of the Greenland ice sheet required the combination of both of these effects--a lowered snow albedo from ash
Keegan who added critical information to NASA's announcement of the 2012 melt studies the newly deposited layers of snow that top the 2-mile-thick ice sheet.
and Tribulations story about the Ecuadorian bee and the river turtle by Olivier Dangles and JÃ rã'me Casas in ESA's Frontiers.
NASA satellites showa new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness
Five new NASA Earth science missions are launching in 2014 to expand our understanding of Earth's changing climate and environment.
This measure is developed from data produced by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
These changes in available water were detected in part with NASA satellites including the NASA/JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission NASA's Quick Scatterometer (Quikscat) and NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
and provided us with insights into the environmental and physiological mechanisms of the browning observed by the MODIS data said co-author Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena Calif. Climate factors known to affect vegetation growth were also in line with the observed
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NASA satellite data provide a regional context for results from the experimental burns. In 2007 fires in southeast Amazonia burned 10 times more forest than in an average climate year an area equivalent to a million soccer fields according to co-author Douglas Morton of NASA.
Large portions of Amazonian forests are already experiencing droughts and are increasingly susceptible to fire.
The optical communication demonstration will transfer video from the space station to a ground receiver located at NASA's Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory in Wrightwood Calif
and helped them feel less out of touch with Earth said Gioia Massa a project scientist at NASA's Kennedy space center in Florida.
High school students helped design some of the cameras'components for the HDEV mission through the High schools United with NASA to Create Hardware program (HUNCH.
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#NASAS OCO-2 brings sharp focus on global carbonsimply by breathing humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence.
In July 2014 NASA will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) to study the fate of carbon dioxide worldwide.
and is managed by NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Carbon dioxide is both one of the best measured greenhouse gases
https://oco. jpl. nasa. govoco-2 is one of five new NASA missions launching in 2014.
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records
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#Computer models soybean crop with 8. 5 percent more productivity, using 13 percent less watercrops that produce more
Scientists from Virginia Tech the Woods Hole Research center and the University of California Santa barbara funded by NASA are collaborating with Brazilian scientists to explore the ecosystem consequences of the extreme droughts of 2005 and 2010 and the extreme flood
. In addition to historical records and ground observations the researchers will use newly available Earth System Data Records from NASA--satellite images of the Amazon and its tributaries over the complete high-and low-water cycles.
NASA is funding the study with a $1. 53 million grant shared among the three institutions.
Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Even if precipitation changes in the future are uncertain there are good reasons to be concerned about water resources.
#Satellite shows high productivity from U s. corn beltdata from satellite sensors show that during the Northern hemisphere's growing season the Midwest region of the United states boasts more photosynthetic activity than any other spot On earth according to NASA
Research in 2013 led by Joanna Joiner of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. demonstrated that fluorescence from plants could be teased out of data from existing satellites
According to co-author Christian Frankenberg of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The paper shows that fluorescence is a much better proxy for agricultural productivity than anything we've had before.
That's where missions with better resolution could help such as NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2--a mission planned for launch in July 2014 that will also measure solar-induced fluorescence.
and in combination with data from other upcoming satellites such as NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive scheduled for launch later this year.
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#Health costs of air pollution from agriculture clarifiedammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated according to NASA-funded research.
Harvard university researchers Fabien Paulot and Daniel Jacob used computer models including a NASA model of chemical reactions in the atmosphere to better represent how ammonia interacts in the atmosphere to form harmful particulate matter.
Next they used the NASA GEOS-Chem model of atmospheric composition to simulate the complex chemistry that converts agricultural emissions--in this case ammonia--into fine particulate matter.
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The only thing holding it in is said the ice shelf Robert Thomas a glaciologist at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island Va. who was involved not in the study.
This research was funded by a grant from the NASA's Cryospheric Science Program and MEASURES program.
NASA findsa new NASA-led study seven years in the making has confirmed that natural forests in the Amazon remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit
Fernando Espã rito-Santo of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. lead author of the study created new techniques to analyze satellite and other data.
Espã rito-Santo said that the idea for the study arose from a 2006 workshop where scientists from several nations came together to identify NASA satellite instruments that might help them better understand the carbon cycle of the Amazon.
and the Carnegie Institute for Science Stanford Calif. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
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#Reintroduction experiments give new hope for plant on brink of extinctiona critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort (Arenaria paludicola) is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a UC
Vegetation cover is estimated using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board Terra (EOS AM) and in 2002 on board the Aqua (EOS PM) satellites.
#Cosmic roadmap to galactic magnetic field revealedscientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission including a team leader from the University of New hampshire report that recent independent measurements have validated one of the mission
To date the only other direct information gathered from the heart of this complex boundary region is from NASA's Voyager satellites.
and Technology who started her career creating a viable Mars colony food system for NASA.
NASA study points to infrared-herring in apparent Amazon green-upfor the past eight years scientists have been working to make sense of why some satellite data seemed to show the Amazon rain forest greening-up during the region's dry season each year from June to October.
Now a new NASA study published today in the journal Nature shows that the appearance of canopy greening is caused not by a biophysical change in Amazon forests
Correcting for this artifact in the data Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md
or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites make daily observations over the huge expanse of Amazon forests.
They culled satellite observations from MODIS and NASA's Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT) Geosciences Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
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Rebecca De Santis and Ruth Schmitz-Streit of University of Kiel in Germany and Monica Balsera of the Institute of Natural resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca in Spain also worked on the projectgrants from the National Science Foundation the National aeronautics and space administration
Using the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model-E2 global Earth system model the researchers were able to simulate the terrestrial ecosystem emissions and atmospheric chemical composition of the Pliocene and the preindustrial era.
To field test the device the Rice team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ campaign which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
Apple submits detailed proposal for'Spaceship'campusas NASA puts its historic spaceship mission to rest,
and NASA engineers together, they also would have come up with a milk crate. It one cubic foot
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The 10 best cities for parks in the worldas the earth's population explodes at a barely comprehensible rate,
Back in October, NASA satellites spotted a massive crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
The crack was discovered by a team of NASA scientists assigned to Operation Icebridge, a six year study of changes in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Mysterious site spotted from space Mysterious Ëoenazca Lines ruins discovered in Saudi desert China s massive Ëoepollution cloud can be seen from space NASA satellites unearth Egypt s lost
Interactive map reveals effects of climate change in your neighborhood NASA video shows global warming is real Rare photos of Ëoeuncontacted tribe reveal a disappearing society Infographic:
It could be sponsored a NASA scientist, and then theyd decide what hardware they need and theyd use us as the payload developer.
We support quite a few NASA-sponsored scientists. We also partner with commercial companies to fly certain science experiments.
and NASA because they get hands-on experience in developing the hardware, see the scientists load the science into the hardware,
We know the NASA paperwork and the flying systems but we dont know that, for instance, with the Japanese.
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae Pressure-cooking method makes an algae-based biofuel Plane takes first flight on 100
Former NASA, Apple engineers unveil $11, 000 coffee makerah...what great lengths we wouldn't go through for the perfect cup of joe.
Born out of a collaborative effort of former NASA, Apple and BMW engineers the $11, 000 Blossom One Limited features the kind of high-tech precision that's sure to appease the taste buds of even the most discriminate of coffee snobs.
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Growing the next'green'fuel Algae could be jet fuel of the future The algae bloom of alternative energy The Algaeus algae-fueled Prius hits
a talk with NASA's space food managerwhile it's not exactly five-star cuisine,
To get a look inside NASA's kitchen, I spoke last week with Michele Perchonok, Shuttle Food System manager at Johnson Space center.
/Courtesy of NASA Image, bottom: Michele Perchonok
How to improve crop yields while reducing climate changewith a one-two punch aimed at reducing climate change and improving crop yields worldwide, the for-profit company re:
NASA has culled available data from its network of satellites to generate a map that depicts the amount
To create the map, the research team used data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System lidar on NASA's ICESAT satellite.
This was achieved using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the Quikscat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
topography and the history of human or natural disturbance of the forests, said Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena,
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space station s streaming webcam to let users spy on earthlings More interactive maps and graphics:
NASA: Road transportation a'key driver'of global warminganalyzing impact by economic sector rather than chemical species, NASA scientists have determined that motor vehicles are the greatest contributor to atmospheric warming, now and in the near term.
In a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
researchers used a climate model to analyze how 13 different sectors of the economy will impact global warming from the year 2000 to 2100.
Scientist gets climate data off NASA satellite before it diesan assistant professor at Colorado State university, Michael Lefsky, has combined data from three NASA satellites to produce a global map of the height of the world's forests.
Knowing how tall the forests are will help scientists figure out how much carbon the trees can capture
On July 14, NASA flight controllers finished firing ICESAT's thrusters to lower its orbit so gravity can drag it back to Earth.
About 90 percent of the satellite is expected to burn up in the atmosphere--NASA claims there's little harm from the rest,
More later on what NASA plans to do in the meantime. ICESAT was using a laser technology similar to radar, called lidar,
From NASA: Lidar can capture vertical slices of forest canopy height by shooting pulses of light at the ground
From NASA: The new results show that temperate conifer forests--which are extremely moist and contain massive trees such as Douglas fir, western hemlock, redwoods,
according to NASA, is what happens to 2 billion tons per year of missing carbon dioxide, considering that humans generate 7 billion tons
In the March-April 2009 issue of THE FUTURIST, Dennis Bushnell, a chief research scientist at NASA
and NASA showed periodic interest in the idea as a way of feeding astronauts on extremely long space missions.
we wouldn't have Nasa engineers getting us there. We use that narrative as inspiration
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