The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of photos taken from a camera flying over the planet Mars.
“Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as 1 meter, or yard, across,” according to NASA’s Web site”
British aeronautical engineer was playing around with the new Google Earth 5.0, which includes undersea data, and noticed something funny off the coast of Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, that resembled a pattern of a street grid.
Google, however, is officially denying the widespread Internet rumors. A statement in Google read, “in this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.”
Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet!
Satellite measurements from space confirm that global warming is making an impact and turning ice into water. As glaciers begin to melt, the question everyone asks is how much and how long?
If Greenland alone was to raise sea level by just six feet (two meters)? “The answer turned out to be huge: about 49 kilometers [30 miles] per year, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today,” Pfeffer says, “and three times faster than we’ve ever observed an outlet glacier to move.”
Given that Greenland’s glaciers are not presently moving anywhere close to that pace—Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, the fastest, reached speeds above nine miles (14 kilometers) per year in 2005—the researchers also looked at ice that could contribute from the rest of the world. Assuming that the largest remaining ice shelves in East Antarctica—Filchner-Ronne and Ross—will remain intact, sea level rise from all other melting ice and the expansion of seawater as the weather gets warmer over the next century would be somewhere between 2.6 feet (0.8 meter) and six feet (two meters)—or nearly twice as much as projected last year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
These numbers are not even taking into account how much sea level might swell from the meltdown of the numerous small glaciers in Alaska, Argentina, Canada and Russia, which already contribute 60 percent of sea level rise from glacial melt.
Continue here to read more about the deep thaw.
Space-industry belt-tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say.
Sometimes as small as softballs, the little orbiters are cheaper and quicker to build than the megabuck, monster-size satellites that have dominated for decades.
“In the last ten years small satellites have started to take off across different industries and the world,” said Pat Patterson of the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University. Read more…
According to Graeme Stemp-Morlock
An image of Titan’s surface shows what scientists believe are bodies of liquid, shown in blue.
PASADENA, California (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.
Scientists positively identified the presence of ethane, according to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which manages the international Cassini spacecraft mission exploring Saturn, its rings and moons.
Liquid ethane is a component of crude oil.
Cassini has made more than 40 close flybys of Titan, a giant planet-sized satellite of the ringed world. Read more…
According to NASA
POWAY, CA–(Marketwire - March 20, 2008) - SpaceDev, Inc. has been awarded a contract from IHI-Aerospace (Japan) to manufacture multiple flight ship-sets of precision space mechanisms for the H2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Included are low-shock release devices used to restrain the HTV’s exposed cargo pallet during launch, and release it on orbit for transfer to the International Space Station. The contract also calls for SpaceDev to supply high-output paraffin release mechanisms and a brush motor. Hardware for operational HTV spacecraft will be delivered over the next six years.
“We are very pleased to announce this contract win which is one of the Company’s largest in recent years. Our release mechanisms utilize our exclusively licensed Fast Acting Shock-less Separation Nut (FASSN) technology,” said Mark N. Sirangelo, SpaceDev’s Chairman and CEO. “Our FASSN has the ability to release very high loads with low shock levels, and we believe it has already proven itself as the technology of choice for spacecraft/launch vehicle separations, being adopted by launch vehicle suppliers such as United Launch Alliance, Sea Launch, and most recently Arianne. With the upcoming retirement of the Shuttle, alternate sources of resupply to the International Space Station are becoming increasingly important, which we believe will lead to a long life for this program. We are honored to be supporting IHI-Aerospace (Japan) in this effort.”
About SpaceDev
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Someone is lying?
Russia says the U.S. military’s plan to shoot down a spy satellite hurtling toward Earth is a veiled test of their missile system.
A statement released Saturday by Russia’s Defence Ministry said the Pentagon failed to provide “enough arguments” for why it plans to demolish the satellite.
“There is an impression that the United States is trying to use the accident with its satellite to test its national anti-missile defence system’s capability to destroy other countries’ satellites,” the ministry said.
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ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 26, 2007) - Flight engineer Sunita Williams wields a hand-held drill outside the International Space Station. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets up a scientific experiment package on the desolate lunar surface. STS-11 crew members Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas make an odd couple in orbit, working head-to-toe during a 17,000 mph spacewalk. These stunning images of astronauts at work are just a few of the 53 breathtaking outer space images that appear in the limited-edition “Year In Space” 2008 Desk Calendar, an award-winning 144-page weekly calendar featuring images and information from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery. http://www.YearInSpace.com.
Published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, “The Year In Space” takes its readers on an out-of-this-world journey while giving them a convenient way to organize their busy lives back on Earth.
The 53 weekly images represent the full spectrum of space exploration, from the Apollo Moon landings to the International Space Station. Amazing planetary images by the Cassini Orbiter and the Mars Exploration Rovers are presented along with incredible deep space views taken by the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. An informative essay accompanies every image, and each weekly calendar page is filled with historic dates in space history.
“The Year In Space” is also a versatile desk calendar, with weekly, monthly, yearly and multi-year calendars, a daily moon phase calendar, an address section, blank pages for notes, and more.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — BioSpace, the leading life science industry job board and career fair company, welcomed over 1,500 biotech and pharmaceutical industry professionals to a BioSpace Career Fair in Burlingame, California on October 10.
The event produced a record breaking number of well qualified biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics candidates. This history-making career fair offered a variety of biotech jobs, pharmaceutical sales careers, biology jobs, clinical research jobs, as well as many other life science careers. Some of the organizations hiring qualified candidates included Abbott Laboratories, Baxter International, Elan Pharmaceuticals, FibroGen, Nektar Therapeutics, Novartis, Rinat, and many others.
BioSpace planned and executed all of the marketing and advertising for the event, and prescreened the 1,500 candidates in attendance. BioSpace also managed the operations and logistics of the event, providing a very productive day for biotech employers and job candidates alike.
Clinical researchers, cell biologists, chemists, pharmaceutical sales representatives, lab managers, pharmaceutical marketing professionals, and many others attended to interview with top life science firms. Companies such as ChemoCentryx, Dey, and Eli Lilly and Company were hiring for pharmaceutical sales representatives, neuroscientist jobs, cell biology careers, formulation scientists, chemists, immunology jobs, and regulatory affairs careers, just to name a few. The exhibiting companies have access to a private, searchable BioSpace Resume Database containing the resumes of those that registered for the event.
About BioSpace
BioSpace, www.biospace.com, is globally recognized as the leading provider of career solutions and online resources and information to the life science, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. With a well-established site infrastructure and loyal online audience, BioSpace.com offers an unparalleled distribution channel for recruitment, investment, product, event, and other life science industry messages.
Over the past decade BioSpace has managed over 200 life science career fairs, which have attracted tens of thousands of life science career candidates. BioSpace provides over 30 career events annually and also provides Private Label Career fairs for companies looking to host unique recruiting open houses.
ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 12, 2007) - Delicate tendrils of interstellar dust in the Carina Nebula point toward regions of new star formation. A barred spiral galaxy, 60 million light-years away, reveals its gently arcing luminous arms. Surrounded by an expanding cocoon of nebulosity, a dying white dwarf star presages the death of our own Sun five billion years from now. These Hubble Space Telescope vistas are just a few of the 53 breathtaking outer space images that appear in the “Year In Space” 2008 Desk Calendar, an award-winning 144-page weekly calendar featuring images and information from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery. http://www.YearInSpace.com.
Published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, “The Year In Space” takes its readers on an out-of-this-world journey while giving them a convenient way to organize their busy lives back on Earth.
The 53 weekly images represent the full spectrum of space exploration, from the Apollo Moon landings to the International Space Station. Amazing planetary images by the Cassini Orbiter and the Mars Exploration Rovers are presented along with incredible deep space views taken by the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra Space Telescopes. An informative essay accompanies every image, and each weekly calendar page is filled with historic dates in space history.
“The Year In Space” is also a versatile desk calendar, with weekly, monthly, yearly and multi-year calendars, a daily moon phase calendar, an address section, blank pages for notes, and more.
“The Year In Space” can be ordered online at http://www.YearInSpace.com or by calling 800/736-6836. There is free standard shipping in the U.S.
Discounts of 25% to 44% are available for all NASA employees nationwide, as well as for employees, customers, retirees and stockholders of organizations that sponsor the calendar, including The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, The Planetary Society, UniverseToday.com, and any member organization of the Coalition for Space Exploration. Education and Internet discounts are also available on the website.
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