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Follow The ArrowPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2004 
As Cassini scientists work to understand the newly-exposed surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, they have found an interesting arrowhead-shaped feature, shown in the center of this synthetic aperture radar image. |
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Rock 'n' Roll Heading For Titan
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 02, 2004Lalala, Bald James Dean, Hot Time and No Love are all heading for Titan. It is now seven years since these four pop songs, composed by musicians Julien Civange and Louis Haeri, stole aboard the European Huygens probe heading for Titan, the main moon of Saturn. Martian Day Dreaming 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2004Cloud watching has been one duty of NASA's Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover within the red planet's Meridiani Planum region. The robot is now wrapping up its exploration of "Burns Cliff" inside the stadium-sized Endurance Crater. |
New Super Lens To Gaze At Sun By 2006
Newark NJ (SPX) Dec 02, 2004The NJIT team is replacing the Big Bear Solar Observatory's existing 65-cm vacuum aperture telescope with a modern off-axis, open air, 1.6 meter clear aperture instrument, that will be able to sharpen in real time the blurry images of the sun that telescopes now provide. Supernovae Bring Majestic Sparkle To A Galaxy Far Far Away 
Garching, Germany (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Images of beautiful galaxies like our own Milky Way, leaves no-one unmoved. Astronomers at Paranal Observatory used the versatile VIMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope to photograph two magnificent examples of such "island universes". |
Argo Robotic Instrument Network Now Covers Most Of The Globe
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Scientists have crossed an important threshold in an international effort to deploy a global network of robotic instruments to monitor and investigate important changes in the world's oceans. Sea-level Clue To Climate Change 
Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 02, 2004It sounds like the plot for a disaster film: rising temperatures melt polar ice, causing a flood of freshwater to rapidly enter the salty North Atlantic. As the fresh and salty water mixes, density changes, altering the Gulf Stream ocean currents that moderate the North Atlantic climate. |
Canadian PM Hedges On Bush Request To Join Missile Defence
Halifax, Canada (AFP) Dec 01, 2004Canada on Wednesday dodged questions about joining the US anti-missile shield program, after President George W. Bush upped pressure on an issue which has boxed its government into a political corner. Geneva Aerospace Turns Blimps Into Communications Links For Army Units 
Carrollton TX (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Blimps are back. By adding Geneva Aerospace's industry-leading unmanned autonomous flight control technologies to blimps, the military soon will have more cost-effective communications capabilities in combat. |
NASA Satellites See El Nino Creep In From The Indian Ocean
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Scientists studied the winds and rains in the eastern Indian Ocean for hints at developing El Ninos. They used that information to create an "Index" or gauge that accurately predicted the El Nino of 2002-2003. NASA Finds Glacier Doing Double Time 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 02, 2004A NASA-funded study found the world's fastest glacier, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed of ice flow between 1997 and 2003. The study provides key evidence of newly discovered relationships between ice sheets, sea level rise and climate warming. The study appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature. |
Globalstar Extends Satellite Data Service To All Of Europe And Across Atlantic
Milpitas CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Globalstar announced Wednesday that it will offer simplex data services to customers using its European gateway in France. Combined with the gateway in Turkey, this expanded coverage will double the area served by the company's simplex data service to include all of Europe, the North Atlantic, and North Africa. Mobile Satellite Services To Remain A Niche But Highly Viable Market: Study 
Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Northern Sky Research Wednesday released its newest market survey and forecast report: "Next-Generation Mobile Satellite Services." The report provides an in-depth overview of demand trends for 12 mobile satellite customer segments in five regions of the globe, as well as in three oceanic regions. |
NIST Demonstrates Data Repair Kit For Quantum Computers
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2004A practical method for automatically correcting data-handling errors in quantum computers has been developed and demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The method was implemented using ions as quantum bits. Ions are arguably the leading candidate for use as qubits in a quantum computer. Hollywood Divided Over Next-Gen DVD Standard In "Betamax-Style" Battle 
Los Angeles CA (AFP) Nov 30, 2004Hollywood studios are locked in a battle over adopting a standard for high-definition Digital Video Disc technology, in an apparent replay of the 1980s struggle between VHS and Betamax video formats. |
Trimble Transforms Lightbar Guidance Into Automated Steering For Agriculture Apps
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2004Trimble introduced Wednesday an extension to its popular AgGPS EZ-Guide Plus lightbar guidance system that allows EZ-Guide Plus customers the choice of upgrading to the new Trimble AgGPS EZ-Steer system for assisted or automated steering. Amerada Hess Selects Hughes Direcway for Broadband To C-Stores 
Germantown MD (SPX) Nov 17, 2004Hughes Network Systems announced November 17 that it has entered into a three-year contract with Amerada Hess Corporation to upgrade its existing HNS satellite network to a Direcway broadband satellite solution. Direcway will enable Amerada Hess to: |
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