A mosaic of images showing the view northward and northeastward from "Greeley Haven," the overwintering site for NASA's Opportunity Mars rover. Opportunity took the photos with its panoramic camera in mid-January 2012. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. Enlarge A NASA rover celebrates eight years on the Martian surface today (Jan. 24), and the long-lived robot [...]
The hypsiboas sp. (also known as a "cowboy frog") was discovered on a small branch during a night survey in a swampy area of the Koetari River in southwest Suriname. The frog and a bright "crayola katydid" are among 46 new species that have been discovered in the tiny South American nation of Suriname's dense [...]
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An artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it visits Pluto in 2015. Instruments will map Pluto and its moon, Charon, providing detail not only on the surface of the dwarf planet, but also about its shape, which could reveal whether or not an ocean lies beneath the ice. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied [...]
Multiple images of the International Space Station flying over the Houston area have been combined into one composite image to show the progress of the station as it crossed the face of the moon in the early evening of Jan. 4. (Lauren Harnett) On January 19, 2012, Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency began talking to [...]
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, and NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team) Enlarge ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — A new analysis of radar data from NASA's Cassini mission, in partnership with the European Space [...]
Acropora tenuis coral let off sperm and egg packages as part of an annual 3-day spawning event at the Australian Institute of Marine Science laboratory in Townsville. The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of miles from the coast, a piece of the [...]
The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, are seen near the city of Tromsoe, northern Norway, late Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years. (AP Photo/Scanpix Norway, Rune Stoltz [...]
The fate of the world's great whale species commands global attention as a result of heated debate between pro and anti-whaling advocates, but the fate of smaller marine mammals is less understood, specifically because the deliberate and accidental catching and killing of dolphins, porpoises, manatees, and other warm-blooded aquatic species are rarely studied or monitored. [...]
Restored wetlands like this pond converted from agricultural use in Aragon, Spain, may look natural, but a new study shows that it can take hundreds of years for restored wetlands to accumulate the plant assemblages and carbon resources of a natural, undamaged wetland. Credit: David Moreno-Mateos/UC Berkeley Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the [...]
The chip is composed of three or more processors that are stacked vertically and connected together — resulting in increased speed and multitasking, more memory and calculating power, better functionality and wireless connectivity. Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog EPFL scientist are among the leaders in the race to develop an industry-ready prototype of a 3D [...]
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