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Category Archives: Science and Technology
A Wind Turbine Experience
Luckily Blaise Sheridan is not afraid of heights, as he climbs up the UD 2-megawatt wind turbine for the second time. With his Master’s thesis revolving around wind energy, he is one of only four people from UD certified to climb … Continue reading
Timelapse of a Day in the ORB Lab’s GVis Room
I was showing the students how to operate the “birdcam” so they can use it to record a series of stills to create a time lapse video of an upcoming research cruise on the RV Hugh R Sharp. We left … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Outreach, Science and Technology
Tagged Birdcam, ORB Lab, timelapse, UD
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Endeavour (STS-134) Launch Photos
This is a gallery of the launch photos that I took in the ~20 seconds that we had between ignition and the space shuttle Endeavour disappearing into the clouds. I’ll set up an outside gallery of all of the 300+ … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Outreach, Science and Technology
Tagged Endeavour, NASA, NASATweetup, Space Shuttle
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DeepZoom of Endeavour on the Launch Pad
(The image above is dynamic and zoomable, play around with it some. Mouse over it and use your scroll wheel, click and drag around on the image, or click the plus and minus buttons, even go full screen with the … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, IT Stuff, Outreach, Science and Technology
Tagged DeepZoom, Endeavour, IT, NASA, NASATweetup
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Endeavour Launch Photo Time Lapse
I took as many photos as I could during the Endeavour launch yesterday morning as fast as my camera would allow. Here is a time lapse of the photos taken before it disappeared into the clouds. I uploaded it to … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Outreach, Science and Technology
Tagged Endeavour, NASA, NASATweetup, Space Shuttle
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Endeavour RSS Shield Retraction Time Lapse
On Sunday we had the unique opportunity via the STS-134 #NASATweetup of being able to take pictures of the space shuttle Endeavour from about 600 yards away while the RSS shield was “retracted”. RSS stands for Rotating Service Structure and … Continue reading
Conch Reef Survey for NASA’s NEEMO 15 Project
Dr. Art Trembanis’ Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics & Engineering Lab (CSHEL) has been pretty busy lately. Not long ago I did a post about the prototype sub-bottom profiler section that he added to his Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) (see: Sub-Bottom Profiling using an … Continue reading
Posted in AUV/ROV, Science and Technology, Sensors
Tagged AUV, CEOE, CShel, NASA, NEEMO, UD
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