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Who wrote the Book of Life?
life-like patterns could help cut the immense scale of the Book of Life project down to a more manageable size. Â Left: How the computer neural network sees microbial life forms. From left to right: rods, cocci, filaments. An 8x8 pixel microbi...
Chandra peers into the Large Magellanic Cloud
Above: Thousands of years after a star explodes, an expanding remnant may still glow brightly. Such is the case with N132D, a supernova remnant located in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. This image is one of the first ever taken with ...
What Lies Beneath A Hurricane
depressions earlier and to predict where hurricanes are headed with greater accuracy. Right: This satellite image of Hurricane Alberto churning across the northern Atlantic Ocean was captured by the OrbView-2 satellite on August 21, 2000. NASA's QuikS...
Storm Warnings
building with some of the NASA scientists, so we see each other face-to-face every day," Bradshaw says. "We give them on-going feedback about how well the satellite data aids our forecasts and how it could be better." Above: Daily sea-surface temperature...
New Chandra Images Released
Chandra image gives us a much better idea of how this energy source works," said Dr. Stephen Murray, principal investigator for the High Resolution Camera, the X-ray camera used to make this image. "You can see X-ray jets blasting out...
Learning from Lightning
observations between April 1995 and April 2000. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched in November 1997 and has been providing high-resolution images and rainfall measurements for the tropics between roughly 35 degrees north and south l...
A Disintegrating Glacier
Berg A had drifted 20 kilometers (about 12.5 miles) to the west, Berg B had drifted to the northeast, and a smaller section (C) remained grounded in front of the Ninnis Glacier. Massom, who has been studying the distribution of polar sea ice for 20 y...
Black Holes on the Loose
star was blended with two neighboring stars of similar brightness which could not be separated in the poorer-resolution, ground-based images. Hubble's identification of the lensed star allowed for an accurate estimate of the mass...
The Value of Real-Time Lightning Detection
available 12-24 hours following collection for retrospective analysis and validation studies. The OTD, launched in April 1995 as a scientific payload aboard the MicroLab-1 satellite, is in a low-earth orbit, and provides an early demonstration of the technol...
Outbreak Alerts from Space
information is plugged into a computerized mapping system called a Geographical Information Systems database (GIS). Fieldwork is also required to characterize how the local species of mosquito behaves. Does it bite people indoors or outdoors or both? Other factors, like the loca...
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