Satellites Record Weakening North Atlantic Current
Greenbelt - Apr 16, 2004
A North Atlantic Ocean circulation system weakened considerably in the late 1990s, compared to the 1970s and 1980s, according to a NASA study. Sirpa Hakkinen, lead author and researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. And co-author Peter Rhines, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle, believe slowing of this ocean current is an indication of dramatic changes in the North Atlantic Ocean climate.
DoubleStar Adds Warm Glow To Sino-European Meet
Beijing - Apr 16, 2004
With their first joint satellite beaming back fruitful data, Chinese and European space scientists Monday said they anticipate even stronger collaboration in the years ahead.
SuperWASP Begins The Search For Thousands Of New Planets
London - Apr 16, 2004
Astronomers Friday will celebrate the commissioning of the SuperWASP facility at the astronomical observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, designed to detect thousands of planets outside of our own solar system.
Garmin and XM WX Bring Weather Data to Marine Chartplotters
Olathe KA - Apr 15, 2004
Garmin International Inc., has signed a deal with XM Radio to distribute real-time graphical weather data directly to Garmin marine chartplotters utilizing the XM WX Satellite Weather data service.
Movie Shows Hydrocarbon Haze Huygens Will Encounter During Titan Entry
Berkeley - Apr 16, 2004
As the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft approaches a July encounter with Saturn and its moon Titan, a team of University of California, Berkeley, astronomers has produced a detailed look at the moon's cloud cover and what the Huygens probe will see as it dives through the atmosphere of Titan to land on the surface.
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DELTA Mission Heading To ISS With Dutch ESA Astronaut
Any heavy-lift booster based on the failed technology of the Space Shuttle will certainly be too expensive and dangerous to be the basis of a viable manned Moon or Mars program. Any short-term answer to the lift deficit should be based on the newer, cheaper technology derived from the EELVs.
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