People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
NASA and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated to create a Web site to allow earthlings to become Martians, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced on Tuesday. By surfing the "Be a Martian" Web site, internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars, the JPL said in a press release. The public will be able to participate as citizen scientists to improve Martian maps,...
astropixie (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
here is a message from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology
LAist (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A partial view of a chart showing blowouts (orange) and leaks (yellow) | Image via LADWP So why have so many water main breaks and leaks in the past few months? If you look at the above chart, it appears that there is nothing unusual other than the attention given to them. Nevertheless, the public pressure is on and rightfully so. The LADWP today released a preliminary investigation report (.pdf),...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Click for large image - This image was created with data collected by the U.S./French satellite during a 10-day period centered on November 1, 2009. It shows a red and white area in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific that is about 10 to 18 centimeters (4 to 7 inches) above normal. Image credit: NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team From Watts Up With That? From the “WUWT never reports...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
From the “WUWT never reports on anything warm department”, JPL reports El Niño looks like it is on schedule to make a Christmas appearance as “The Boy”. The good news is that it will likely help California’s water situation this year. From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Recent sea-level height data [...]
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Last chance to lift NASA's spirit (Image: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) From New Scientist: NASA's twin Mars rovers have outlasted their planned three-month missions for so long that they seem indestructible. Nearly six years on, their presence on the Red Planet is taken for granted, as if they are immutable parts of the Martian landscape. But we may soon have to confront a new reality. Spirit, which has...
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A new paper, by scientists of Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol University (UK) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) was published in Science recently. The work used the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model to calculate surface processes over...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
LOS ANGELES — For NASA's stuck Mars rover, the Spirit may be willing, but the wheels could prove too weak. The space agency on Thursday outlined a rescue plan to try to free the rover Spirit, which has been bogged in a sand trap on the red planet for half a year. The risky operation is expected to last several months. "If it cannot make the great escape from this sand trap, it's likely that...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the world’s largest user knowledgebase for Oracle® Applications users, announced the organization’s membership has selected its 2010 board of directors. The new board members are John Stouffer, an individual associate member; Floyd M. Teter, system engineer, Technology and Standards Office for Institutional Business...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
China's Rocket Pioneer: Left: A Chinese Long-March 4-B rocket blasts off on Nov. 6, 2004. Right: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Qian Xuesen on August 2, 2008. Xinhua From Popular Science: Qian Xuesen has died at 98; he helped found Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported as a suspected Communist. One can only imagine how history might have played out if the United States had not...
The National Pages Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was a US spacecraft developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States’s return to Mars after a 10-year absence. It completed its primary mission in January 2001 and was in its third extended mission phase when, on November 2, 2006, the spacecraft failed to [...]
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Shortly after the planets inside our own solar system were formed, they began wobbling about, and roaming around, far from being caught in the well-defined orbits we see today. This chaotic motion is mainly responsible for the formation of the Moon, after Earth collided with a Mars-sized object that was circling the Sun on about the same orbit. These chaotic times have been history for billions of...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Vint Cerf, Google’s internet evangelist, has unveiled a new protocol intended to power an interplanetary internet. The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol emerged from work first started in 1998 in partnership with Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The initial goal was to modify the ubiquitous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to facilitate robust communications between celestial...
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Qian Xuesen has died at 98; he helped found Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported as a suspected Communist One can only imagine how history might have played out if the United States had not deported a Chinese-born Caltech rocket scientist on suspicion of being a Communist in 1955. Qian Xuesen first fought his deportation, [...]
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
THE LA TIMES has an obituary written by Claire Noland, that details the life and times of Qian Xuesen , who died at the ripe old age of 98. So, who was Qian Xuesen, and why should you care? He was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California, that did the early ground-breaking research in American rocketry — and a victim of the McCarthy paranoia. Deported in 1955 on suspicion...
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