Webb's first full-color images, data are set to sound
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 16:35
There's a new, immersive way to explore some of the first full-color infrared images and data from NASA's JWST—through sound. Listeners can enter the complex soundscape of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, explore the contrasting tones of two images that depict the Southern Ring Nebula, and identify the individual data points in a transmission spectrum of hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b.
A team of scientists—including Kim Arcand of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—musicians, and a member of the blind and visually impaired community worked to adapt JWST's data, with support from the JWST mission and NASA's Universe of Learning.
"Music taps into our emotional centers," says Matt Russo, a musician and physics professor at the University of Toronto. "Our goal is to make Webb's images and data understandable through sound—helping listeners create their own mental images."
These audio tracks support blind and low-vision listeners first, but are designed to be captivating to anyone who tunes in.
"These compositions provide a different way to experience the detailed information in Webb's first data.
Researchers find spaceflight may be associated with DNA mutations, increased risk of heart disease and cancer
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 14:10
MAVEN and EMM make first observations of Mars' patchy proton aurora
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 13:55
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning traditional thinking about our planet's formation on its head.
The new research, published in Geology, challenges the existing theory that Earth's crust was solely formed by processes inside our pl BlackSky awarded NASA contract to advance Earth Science research
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received its first call order, worth $1.7 million, from NASA to evaluate accessibility, accuracy, quality and utility of the Company's imaging data services for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.
"New discoveries in Earth science can be accelerated with innovative research methods and real-time dynamic data sets that keep up with Scientists evaluate Earth-cooling strategies with geoengineering simulations
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
A group of international scientists led by Cornell is - more rigorously and systematically than ever before - evaluating if and how the stratosphere could be made just a little bit "brighter," reflecting more incoming sunlight so that an ever-warming Earth maintains its cool.
Their work was published Aug. 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Solar radiation modi AFRL partners with NASA, academia, industry on spacecraft flight experiment
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, NASA and DuPont de Nemours, Inc., has a brand-new spacecraft materials experiment flying on the International Space Station.
A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft delivered the experiment named 16 Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-16, to the I Beijing says Washington still waging Cold War in space
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
Regarding space exploration as an integral part of the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, China has always kept an open attitude to international cooperation and it is committed to using its aerospace technology and space research findings to serve the common good.
In contrast, the United States has never changed its zero-sum approach to space, and has never stopped Nontoxic material found to be ultra-strong solar energy harvester
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
Solar cells are vital for the green energy transition. They can be used not only on rooftops and solar farms but also for powering autonomous vehicles, such as planes and satellites. However, photovoltaic solar cells are currently heavy and bulky, making them difficult to transport to remote locations off-grid, where they are much needed.
In a collaboration led by Imperial College London, Globalstar and Globalsat to Deploy IoT Solution for Monitoring of Renewable Energy Stations in Latin America
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
Globalstar (NYSE American: GSAT), has partnered with Globalsat Group to deploy a jointly developed IoT solution powered by Globalstar's satellite network designed to monitor renewable energy stations located in remote areas of Latin America. The initial deployment will include 23,000 devices throughout the region with an expectation of additional opportunities in the short term.
The energy Sols 3573-3574: Making up for Lost Contact Science
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
It was a busy day for the Curiosity uplink team! After our arm activity and data volume restrictions described by Lucy Thompson from last plan, we came in today with ~120% downlinked data performance and full permission to use MAHLI and APXS for contact science. Our small, ~11 m drive from Sol 3572 was successful and we arrived in front of some dark-toned, nodular rocks; our last chance at study Discovery of the oldest visible planetary nebula hosted by a 500 million year old galactic cluster
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel-a so-called Planetary Nebula (PN) inside a 500 million-year-old Galactic Open Cluster (OC) called M37 (also known as NGC2099). This is a very rare finding of high astrophysical value. Their findings h Space tech: In Jilin, they build satellites
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:24
Over the past decade, Chen Maosheng and his team have manufactured satellites - a lot of them. They've built 53 Jilin-1 Gaofen-03 satellites, 43 of which have been launched and operated in orbit.
Chen, 37, chief Jilin-1 Gaofen-03 designer, began leading the team to scientific and technological breakthroughs in 2012, when he entered Changguang Satellite Technology, a State-owned enterprise NASA and China are eyeing the same landing sites near the lunar south pole
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 11:59
China and the United States have identified overlapping potential landing sites at the south pole of the moon as both countries ramp up their lunar exploration ambitions.
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Ursa Major wins $3.6 million U.S. Air Force contract to flight-qualify rocket engine
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 11:08
Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major announced Aug. 31 it won a U.S. Air Force contract to support the development of the company’s Hadley liquid engine for small launch vehicles.
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