The state of Earth observation, January 2012

post from Planetary Society Blog on 29 August 2012 04:04:21 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

As of November 2011, the Earth Observing Handbook counts 109 active missions to study the Earth as a planet, with 112 more approved and planned for the future. Jason Davis provides an overview of key current and upcoming earth-observing missions.

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JUICE: Europe's next mission to Jupiter

post from Planetary Society Blog on 29 August 2012 04:04:21 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

The Twitterverse is buzzing this morning with news that the Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next large European mission be JUICE, a mission to explore the three icy Galilean satellites and eventually to orbit Ganymede.

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Hurricane Isaac menaces the Gulf coast

post from Bad Astronomy on 29 August 2012 03:03:26 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Hurricane Isaac is hitting the Gulf coast of the US right now, battering the area with 120 kph winds. Just after local midnight on August 28, the Suomi NPP Earth-observing satellite took this eerie and beautiful picture of Isaac when it was still a[...]

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Tech Billionaire Milner Aims to Accelerate
Progress by Bankrolling Science

post from Singularity Hub on 29 August 2012 01:57:27 PM. © Singularity Hub

Ever imagine you?d see $27 million in physics prizes awarded in one fell swoop? Me either. Reportedly, Alan Guth was [...]

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Kepler finds a planet in a binary stars habitable
zone

post from Bad Astronomy on 29 August 2012 01:16:14 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Oh, this is too cool: scientists have found a planet orbiting a binary star (a pair of stars in tight orbit around each other) that is at the right distance to have liquid water! Let me be clear: this planet is much bigger than Earth, and is likely to be[...]

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Arctic melt, smash and grab ahead

post from New Scientist - Environment on 29 August 2012 01:00:00 PM. © New Scientist - Environment

Humanity's rapacious reaction to the Arctic ice minimum is depressingly predictable

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Arctic ice low heralds end of 3-million-year
cover

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The consequences of what is arguably the greatest environmental change in human history will extend far beyond the North Pole

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Singularity Summit 2012 Is Coming To San
Francisco October 13-14

Now in it’s sixth year, the Singularity Summit, which is hosted by the Singularity Institute, will be in San Francisco on October 13-14 [...]

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Turing Machine Gives Order to Chaotic Penrose
Universe

From New Scientist - Online news: A theoretical computer has booted up for the first time in a constantly shifting mathematical playing field based on Penrose tiles Read the whole article

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Researchers Shed Light on Superconductor
Development

From The Engineer - News: A team of researchers from Israel's Tel Aviv University claims to have made a breakthrough in the development of superconductors that operate at higher temperatures than existing superconducting materials. Read the whole article

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