space (not spatial)

• May 5, 2006general, space (not spatial)

  Don’t Leave Earth Without it

  Ok, for all you intergalactic travelers out there, it’s the Location Earth Dog Tag, a lovely dog tag style pendant engraved with several methods of locating Earth in the galaxy. […]

• April 30, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched

  I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]

• April 13, 2006General, general, space (not spatial)

  USGS Map-a-Planet

  This site is probably not new to some of you, but I think it is worth a post. The USGS, conjunction with NASA, offers access to global imagery of a […]

• March 28, 2006Events, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments

  See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer

  Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the […]

• March 26, 2006general, space (not spatial)

  Donate to SETI@home

  SETI@home is an attempt to search for extraterrestrial signals through the use of a distributed computing model, using processing power of millions of volunteer’s computers. To date they have proceeded […]

• March 13, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping

  Google Mars!

  Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars!  It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars.  There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]

• March 9, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Signs of Water on Saturn Moon Enceladus!

  Nasa is reporting this after that their Cassini probe has discovered what appears to be liquid water errupting “Old Faithful” style from the surface of Enceladus.  As everyone is probably […]

• January 26, 2006Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Japan Launches Mapping Satellite

  The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (nicknamed “Daichi’) was launched on January 24th, after two delays for technical problems. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), The satellite will […]

• January 25, 2006space (not spatial)

  Most Earth-like Planet Detected

  Continuing last week’s podcast “space theme”, CNN has this story about astronomers using new techniques to discover the most Earth-like planet found yet. From the story, “an international team has […]