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The Face Of The EarthBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 30, 2010 For a month now, we have been acquiring altitude models with the TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X satellite pair. Already, over 1000 products have come out of our operational processing chain. Alongside many test images, some of the data also give an insight into how humankind has shaped the surface of the Earth - and how the highs and lows around them have determined the course of their lives. Many of the interferometric images created over the last few weeks have used test data acquired over flat areas t ... read more |
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Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface. This is important because future missions - whether to the Moon, an asteroid, Mars or other location - will need this capability to land safely near specific resources that are ... more  
USS Abraham Lincoln, At Sea (SPX) Aug 20, 2010Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group wrapped up Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) off the coast of Southern California Aug 13. COMPTUEX is an 18-day exercise used to evaluate the strike group's operational readiness by assessing the integration of all units of the strike group such as air, strike, information, surface and anti-submarine warfare to certify the strike group ready f ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 19, 2010The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq at dawn on Thursday, a key milestone in the withdrawal of American forces more than seven years after the US-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. Under cover of darkness, the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, crossed into neighbouring Kuwait ahead of the planned declaration of an end to US combat operations in Iraq by an Au ... more |
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Bats, moths evolution 'arms race'Bristol, England (UPI) Aug 19, 2010 Bats and moths, as predator and prey, are locked in an evolutionary "arms race" with survival as the goal, British researchers say. Studies have found that in the ongoing escalation, some bats have learned to emit "stealth" clicks that moths can't hear as they search for prey, while some species of moth have learned to tell the difference between "locating" clicks and "striking" clicks and can react accordingly, the BBC reported Thursday. Bats navigate and hunt by emitting a stream of ul ... read more |
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