Citation Alan Buis, Pacific Locked in ‘La Nada’ Limbo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology (06 February 2013) How JPL recognized this neutral point Briefly: From its vantage point 1336 kilometers (830 miles) above the Earth, the US/European Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2 ocean altimeter satellites measure the height of the ocean surface directly [...]
Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Oceanography,Weather
Tagged: Alan Buis, Bill Patzert, climatologist, CNES, driest, El Niño, El Niño/La Niña–Southern Oscillation, EUMETSAT, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, La Nada, La Niña, limbo, Los Angeles, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ocean surface, radar altimetry, rainfall, wettest, winters
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- 6 February 2013 – 18:16
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If you want to expose your children to something that might inspire them into science and engineering, watch NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab coverage of the Curiosity landing NASA Lands Car-sized Rover on Martian Surface, NASA (05 August 2012) For me, this kind of achievement will never get stale. That’s why I stayed up to watch [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars landing, NASA, satellite
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- 6 August 2012 – 08:32
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Citation Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Gary Kinsella, Siu-Chun Lee, Shing M. Lok, and Jordan Ellis, Support for the Thermal Origin of the Pioneer Anomaly, Physical Review Letters 108(24): 241101 (15 June 2012) Clear and complete In its entirety: We investigate the possibility that the anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft [...]
Categories: Physics,Science
Tagged: acceleration, anisotropic emission, database preservation, decay, electrical subsystems, Gary Kinsella, heat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jordan Ellis, magnetic tapes, navigational Doppler data, Pioneer, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Pioneer Anomaly, plutonium, punch cards, recoil force, Saturn, Shing M. Lok, Siu-Chun Lee, Slava G. Turyshev, spacecraft, thermal origin, thermal radiation, Viktor T. Toth
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- 18 July 2012 – 18:26
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NASA map excites researchers The Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported today that: NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent’s deep interior to its coast, will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from [...]
Categories: Climate change,Environment,Science
Tagged: Alan Buis, animated map, animation, B. Scheuchl, E. Rignot, glaciers, glaciology, Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Irvine, J. Mouginot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, map, polar region, satellite, satellite tracks, sea level, Steve Cole, tracks, University of California
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- 18 August 2011 – 16:59
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Voyager I and II’s 33-year plus (and still counting) journey — a triumph of engineering and scientific thinking Getting in obviously right in science and engineering is not easy, when what’s out there is unknown. The scientists and engineers who worked on NASA’s Voyager I and II exploratory space probes did an admirable job of [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: Alpha Centauri, astronomical unit, AU, bow shock, generator, heliopause, heliosheath, heliosphere, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, JUPITER, light year, NASA, Neptune, orbital plane, plutonium 238, radioisotope, Saturn, termination shock, thermoelectric, Uranus, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Voyager I, Voyager II
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- 1 May 2011 – 18:48
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- By BrainiYak