09/Jul 2008 | Wind Power From the Ocean (With Help from Space) | I drive regularly through Iowa and southern Minnesota in the US, and over the past few years wind farms have been popping up in that region up almost faster than corn grows. But there may be an even b... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources | Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA Scopes Out the Next Meteor | Smaller rocks matter, too. Perhaps nowhere is that so evident as in central Siberia, where 100 years ago last week, something -- presumably a meteoroid, most experts say -- streaked across the sky and... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Eight Faculty Will Join Viterbi School of Engineering | Newly appointed experts in electrical, chemical, astronautics and civil engineering will be onboard beginning this fall . beginning this fall: Andrea Armani of Caltech; Burcin Becerik, a project mana... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA mission to be crystal ball into oceans' future, mirror to the past; 'it's the motion of the ocean' | NASA Using Undersea Lab to Prepare for Future Space Missions; 'Similar Challenges' In Space and Under the Ocean Creating a Window On 'Oceans in Motion'; Scientists Working to Obtain Detailed Track of ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA Mission to be Crystal Ball into Oceans Future, Mirror to the Past | Jason 1 data showing the Pacific Ocean, Feb. Image credit: NASA/JPL (NASA) - Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods and drought, the millions of dollars in fuel costs that could be av... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA Hunts "Civilization Killers" | By Andrew C. Revkin The Earth is pockmarked with the evidence of ancient collisions - huge craters blasted into its surface by asteroids or comets. One such object, striking 65 million years ago in th... Read » |