space (not spatial)
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general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
India getting into the lunar mapping game
At a press conference on Monday, officials from India’s ISRO announced that they are planning to launch the Chandrayaan-I satellite that will orbit the Moon for two years on a […]
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Education, general, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)
New NASA Science Website
NASA has just unveiled a new skin for it’s Science website. The site is serves as the public face for all the nifty scientific stuff done down at NASA central. […]
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general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
Extrasolar discovery of organic molecule
It’s a baby step, but an important one. NASA reported yesterday that they found the first evidence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet outside of the […]
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Milestones in Space Photography
Sometimes it helps to look back and see how far we’ve come. The National Geographic has a nice pictorial display of major milestones in space photography. All the famous and […]
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Fartherest Galaxy Discovered
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory have discovered the farthest galaxy known – 13 billion light years away! The galaxy is in essence a baby picture of a newly formed […]
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general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
Landsat 5 imaging again!
Our reader Michelle sent us a quick email to let us know that the USGS has announced that Landsat 5 resumed imaging as of January 10th. Landsat 5 has been […]
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general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
High Resolution Images of Mercury
The Messenger spacecraft is reporting back the first high resolution images of Mercury taken since the ’70’s. They’re over 3x better than anything we had before. The images are pretty […]
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Earth Barely Tall Enough to Ride Life Ride
Ok, so it was a bad joke. Apparently, the Earth is just barely big enough to support life. The National Geographic is reporting this new research that says the Earth […]
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Gadgets, general, Hardware, Navigation, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)
Solar Headaches to Come
National Geographic is reporting that we can expect a season of intense solar flares for the next few weeks and months. This is all part of a normal 11 year […]
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Google Lunar XPrize gets its first official entry
Odyssey Moon, a company based on the Isle of Man, on Thursday became the first team officially entered in the Google-sponsored Lunar X Prize, which is offering a total of […]
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