Astronomy

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Delivers Treasure Trove of Data

March 18, 2011 Astronomy

Includes maps of visual & infrared brightness, temperature and more… WASHINGTON DC, USA — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission’s exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. With this fifth release of data, striking new images …

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SOFIA Observatory Receives NASA Award

January 31, 2011 Applications

For The Success of the SOFIA First Light Flight This infrared image of the heart of the Orion star-formation complex was taken from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) using the FORCAST mid-infrared camera, by principal investigator Terry Herter of Cornell University.(Image Credit: NASA/SOFIA/USRA/FORCAST Team) Mountain View CA, USA –/PR-USA/– The Universities Space Research [...]

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ESA’s Mercury mapper feels the heat

January 30, 2011 Applications
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BepiColombo’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the Large Space Simulator ESA –  Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA’s Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury’s hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft. [...]

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The coldest objects in the nearby Universe

January 29, 2011 Astronomy
All-sky image showing density of cold cores present in the Cold Core Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO). Credit: ESA/Planck Collaboration

ESA’s Planck spacecraft measures them Paris, France –  With its power to detect cosmic material at unprecedentedly low temperatures, the Planck Spacecraft has completed the first unbiased, all-sky survey of compact cold and dusty objects in the Milky Way and, at the same time, the first all-sky survey of cool dust in other galaxies. These [...]

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Precision Measurement Systems for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

March 29, 2009 Astronomy
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To measure small temperature variations on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile {Image credit: LSST Corporation} Gainesville FL, USA — GEC Instruments has been awarded a contract from LSST Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build four ultra high accuracy, high resolution temperature measurement instruments, each with 94 thermocouple input channels, accompanied by software for [...]

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Global Carbon Measurement System

June 3, 2008 Astronomy

International Post Corporation Leads Industry Response to Carbon Emissions (CSRwire) BELGIUM, – June 2, 2008 – The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoring system providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal industry. The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria, [...]

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Seismologists Take Deep Earth Temperatures

December 11, 2006 Astronomy

Univ. of California scientists measure heat flow from Earth’s molten core into the lower mantle {Image by Edward Garnero} Santa Cruz CA, USA — For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process [...]

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Dark Vortex over South Pole of Venus

May 2, 2006 Astronomy

Credits: ESA/INAF-IASF, Rome, Italy, and Observatoire de Paris, France This false-colour composite, built with images taken by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) onboard Venus Express, the first-ever images of the hothouse planet’s south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres. . ESA’s Venus Express has showed surprisingly clear structures and unexpected [...]

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