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WHOI Study Calculates Volume And Depth Of OceansWoods Hole MA (SPX) May 24, 2010 How high is the sky? Scientists have a pretty good handle on that one, what with their knowledge of the troposphere, stratosphere an the other "o-spheres." Now, thanks to new work headed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), they are closing in on the other half of that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? They're also tackling an even more intriguing-if less romantic-question: What is the volume of the Earth's oceans? It's hard to imagine Irving Berlin putting those words into the ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) May 13, 2010Scientists say they are now better prepared for measuring Iceland's volcanic ash problem, which is expected to continue for several months, after experiments using modelling and lasers to probe the atmosphere. By knowing how much ash is spewed from the volcano, scientists can map the way the cloud will spread depending on the wind, Pierre Flamant from a meteorological laboratory near Paris e ... more  
San Diego CA (SPX) May 13, 2010General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that its Lynx Block 30 Synthetic Aperture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator (SAR/GMTI) radar has surpassed 1,000 collective mission hours on Sky Warrior Block 1 aircraft in support of U.S. Army combat operations in Iraq. Lynx radars have been deployed on four Sky Warrior UAS since early December 2009 as part of the Army's Quick Reaction ... more  
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 10, 2010For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully tracked targets with a multiband radar featuring a common radar suite controller. This milestone, which took place at the Navy's Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island, Va., was accomplished through the use of an engineering development model of the Dual Band Radar (DBR) developed by the Navy's prime contractor, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RT ... more |
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Arizonans Find Largest Meteorite Fragment From Spectacular Midwestern FallTucson AZ (SPX) May 06, 2010 UA meteorite curator Marvin Killgore has a 300-gram piece of the object that exploded over Wisconsin in April. People in southwestern Wisconsin and northern Iowa on April 14 witnessed a sonic boom and a fireball that briefly - and spectacularly - lit up the late evening sky. It was the result of an ancient rock that ended its 4.5 billion year journey through the solar system in a ball of flames entering Earth's atmosphere. NASA officials estimated that the rock, a meteoroid some 3.3 feet acr ... read more |
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