NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

"Kinetic" for Geoscientists

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Sensational !!! "HoloDesk" and "DisplayAir" is the Future ? No, is the Present

HoloDesk (Microsoft)

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DisplayAir

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Fantastic !!! New microscope without lenses

Microscope on the go: Cheap, portable, dual-mode microscope uses holograms, not lenses

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New Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM)

METI and NASA Release Version 2 ASTER Global DEM

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Earth's gravity revealed in unprecedented detail

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Neighbouring volcanoes on Mars

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Curiosity Rover - Mars Science Laboratory - JPL/NASA

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Capacities: Laboratory of Geology, suspension “rocker-bogie”, vaporizer of rocks the laser and diverse cameras
Mission: To look areas in Mars capable to support life in the past or gift and also conditions capable to preserve diverse types of life.
Launching: Between November of 2011 and 18 of December of 2011, Canaveral Handle, Flórida.
Arrived: August of 2012
Time of mission: 1 year Martian, about 23 terrestrial months.

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First Rocky Planet (Kepler-10 Discover)

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b (link). Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from May 2009 to early January 2010. “All of Kepler’s best capabilities have converged to yield the first solid evidence of a rocky planet orbiting a star other than our sun,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler’s deputy science team lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.,.....

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