Shuttle technicians and mission managers continue ongoing preparations for the space shuttle Discovery’s final launch on Wednesday. The STS-133 crew woke up at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT) this morning. Commander Steve Lindsey and pilot Eric Boe performed practice landings in NASA’s Shuttle Training Aircraft, which mimics the handling of an orbiter during landing. Additional [...]
A newly installed webcam is providing the public with an opportunity to watch as the next rover destined for Mars is assembled. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions designed ever. Dubbed “Curiosity” the rover represents the evolution in knowledge that has taken place within NASA over the past [...]
Thouasnds of patients will be able to speak to their consultant via webcam under a project being rolled out by NHS Lothian. The health board is already set to save £1.4 million a year after video conferencing was recently introduced for staff. Health chiefs think it could be extended to patients, saving them even more [...]
NOAA/PMEL’s first North Pole Web Cam was deployed on April 28, 2002. In order to conserve power and reduce satellite transmission time, web cams are programmed to send a limited number of images per day from the North Pole. The cameras are dynamically programmable, so PMEL can communicate with the cameras to change the configuration [...]
Using little more than a webcam and a laser, a young engineer has built a cheap 3D scanner that dovetails perfectly with the Makerbot and other desktop fabricators. It could be used as part of a copying system that would allow hobbyists to duplicate solid objects at home. “The technology exists to do this kind [...]
There’s a foul stench at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. A college spokesman says “Perry” the corpse flower began to open — and smell — around 11 p.m. Thursday. They expect Perry will be fully open sometime Friday. The rare flower, with the scientific name of titan arum, emits a pungent odor that’s been [...]
This real-time ultraviolet image of the Sun measures a mid-temperature region of the Sun in a transition zone between the surface and the roughly 1-million-degree corona (the Sun’s atmosphere), Gurman says. Brighter and darker features are all manifestations of the Sun’s magnetic field. The brightest areas indicating strong magnetic fields. Dark stringy areas cooler than [...]
Pyearne, Switzerland, A solar powered aircraft emerged from a night flight high over Switzerland on Thursday, on course to making history as the first plane to fly around the clock on solar energy. More than 24 hours after it took off, Solar Impulse was still flying in spectacular early morning clear skies in northwestwern Switzerland [...]