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Tag Archives: NASA
Predicting Sea Surface Salinity from Space
The simplest definition of salinity is how salty the ocean is. Easy enough, right? Why is this basic property of the ocean so important to oceanographers? Well, along with the temperature of the water, the salinity determines how dense it … Continue reading
Posted in Research Vessels/Ships, Satellite, Science and Technology, Sensors
Tagged NASA, NOAA, Salinity, satellite, Sensor, Space, UD
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Hurricane Katia Footprints
The ORB Lab was having a meeting in the GVis Lab this week and, as usual, the East Coast US 8-Day Averaged Sea Surface Temperature overlay was up on the screens. Dr. Oliver pointed to the screen and noted that … Continue reading
Posted in Outreach, Satellite, Science and Technology, Sensors
Tagged Google Earth, IOOS, MARACOOS, NASA, NOAA, ORB Lab, UD
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NASATweetup Mission Accomplished
Welcome Home Flat Samantha! Everything has finally come full circle and Flat Samantha is once again re-united with her creator Samantha. Calling @FlatSamantha‘s trip a “circle” might be a bit of a misnomer however as she has had a wild … Continue reading
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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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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