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5	10 Years of Aqua Satellite’s Incredible Images of Earth From Space << Previous \| Next >> ... 0 Published 16 days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship [Censorship] The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let's not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artisti... 0 Published 21 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	North Korea Defies the World and Launches Menacing Rocket (Updated: It Failed) [North Korea] We knew it was coming, and here it is: Pyongyang just pulled the trigger and sent its Unha-3 rocket toward space, to the dismay of everyone who fears a North Korea who can strike the world. More &r... 0 Published 42 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	North Korea's Big Bad Missile Launch Begins (Updated) [Video] North Korea is being extra naughty this week: the piss-broke dictatorship is about to launch a giant rocket for scientific purposes. Translation: a giant F U to the rest of the world, and a thermonuclear t... 0 Published 43 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Government Can't Even Hide Secret Spy Satellites Anymore [Video] Last week, the National Reconnaissance Office, which runs our country's top secret spy satellites—Hi, Iran!—launched its newest toy. It was a mystery—just a "payload." But within hours, ... 0 Published 44 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Never Before Seen Satellite Spy Shots from the Depths of the Cold War [Space] Depths might not be the right expression, actually, as all of these photographs were taken from space, decades and decades ago. Russian rockets, aircraft carriers, secret military compounds—one legen... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	I Can't Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy [Image Cache] Relying on satellite imagery collected from the internet instead of a camera, artist Hubert Blanz created these mind-bending images of airports for his X-planation collection. I rarely get motion sick, but... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The First Image of Earth Taken By NASA's VIIRS Satellite [Space] NASA's new VIIRS—or Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite—satellite travels in a sun-synchronous orbit. So as it photographs the planet, each photo is taken at the same time ensuring that al... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Were US Satellites Hacked by the Chinese Military? [Hacking] Much has been made of the cybertensions between the U.S. and China, especially when it comes to military secrets. While any conflict thus far has been minor, the latest allegation of China hacking America... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	That Crashing Satellite Narrowly Avoided Wrecking Chinese Cities [Space] Good news! The ROSAT satellite didn't destroy all humans. Most of it just burned up in the atmosphere, as expected—but not all of it! Nearly two tons of German space junk hit the ocean—and alm... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Sound the All Clear: ROSAT Does Not Go Splat [Space] ROSAT, the latest manmade object to fall from the heavens and threaten humanity's safety, has apparently burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The 1 in 2,000 chance of death from above we had all feared never ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Video: 10 Years of Fires on Earth Seen From Space << Previous \| Next >> ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	DARPA Wants to Hack Together Old Satellites into New Satellites—While In Space [Video] Launching satellites is a risky proposition—costing as much as $10,000 a pound to make orbit and little recourse if a critical piece malfunctions. So, DARPA has devised a system to recycle the $300... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Another Dead Satellite Is Blindly Plummeting to Earth [Space] So apparently dead satellites blithely falling from the sky is a thing now. After last week's UARS debacle, the now-defunct German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is scheduled to crash to Earth in late October... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Massive Cold War Spy Satellite Was Hidden from the World Until Now [Space] The HEXAGON satellite spied on America's Cold War foes for over a decade, taking extremely detailed (film!) photographs from space. It was 60 feet long—bigger than a bus. And the public never, ever... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NASA's Not Sure Where in the World This Satellite Will Crash [Space] The 20-year-old UARS satellite has dropped out of orbit—as old satellites are wont to do—and is reentering the atmosphere. Too bad NASA can't pinpoint where—or when—exactly it will... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Scout Observer: Your Personal SATCOM, Powered by iPhone [Accessories] There's not really much that needs to be said about this six-pound beast of a box than what's hinted at in the headline: Basically, this is a portable satellite communications device that's built around a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	12 Satellites Under Construction [Space] This Labor day, be thankful that NASA engineers have worked so hard to keep the satellites they build from raining down upon the Earth like a biblical hell fire of scientific progress. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NASA Measures Irene’s Record Rain Totals From Space NASA has totaled the impressive rainfall from Hurricane Irene using highly precise microwave measurements from a satellite. The map, created using data recorded by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite from Aug. 20-29, reveals rainfa... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Video: Hurricane Irene’s Birth, Death Seen From Space New satellite images show the 10-day genesis of hurricane Irene from the storm’s birth in the tropics to its death over the East Coast of North America. A geostationary weather satellite called GOES-13 recorded Irene’s genesis as a tropical... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Kamikaze Satellite Could Be Earth’s Last Defense Against Asteroid By Mark Brown, Wired UK Chinese researchers from Beijing’s Tsinghua University have revealed plans to divert the asteroid Apophis — which may well collide with Earth in a couple decades — by smashing a kamikaze solar sail into it. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	The Earth Has a Ring [Science] Of anti-protons! While it's not as visually cool as what Saturn has going for it, this is still an important development, even if we can't technically "see" the ring with our primitive Earthling eyes. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Crippling Somalian Drought Seen From Space A heat wave that recently swept United States has nothing on Somalia’s years-long dry spell, as new space-based drought images show. The satellite animation (above) depicts 16 weeks of soil moisture levels in the Horn of Africa, including Djibouti, E... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	A Tiny Man-Made Probe Is Orbiting a Massive Asteroid 117 Million Miles from Earth [Space] History, made: The unmanned Dawn spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Vesta, a massive asteroid some 117 million miles from our planet. This is the first spacecraft to orbit and object in our ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Ghosts of Saturn [Video] Designer Chris Abbas collected a ton of Cassini photography from the Saturn mission and made this video. It is at times simultaneously eerie and awe-inspiring. This is not your father's NASA highlight ree... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Area 51 Secrets: The US Military Used Fake Cardboard Cutouts of Planes to Fool the Russians [Area 51] A lot of Cold War-era Area 51 documents have been declassified and National Geographic has discovered a rather low-tech method the US Military used to fool the Russians. It involved cardboard, the occasio... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
14	Satellites Spot Illegal Logging of Uncontacted Tribes’ Home Some of the world’s most sophisticated technology is being used to protect indigenous people who’ve entirely avoided the industrial world. By studying satellite photographs of Paraguayan forests inhabited by still-uncontacted aboriginal tribe... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
6	Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Spill Beneath the Radar A year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout sent 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, smaller leaks still bubble across the Gulf — but unlike big spills, they’re largely ignored. A nonprofit organization called SkyTruth,... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
5	Humpback Whales May Be Migratory Astronomers An eight-year project that tracked humpback whale migrations by satellite shows the huge mammals follow uncannily straight paths for weeks at a time. The results suggest a single migratory mechanism isn’t responsible. Instead, humpbacks may use a ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	First Ever Spacecraft "Black Box" Successfully Survives Fall from Space [Space] We know the venerable black box can survive a harrowing plane crash, but what about falling from orbit? More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	No One Was Hurt in This Google Maps Plane Crash [Video] Follow this link to a Google Maps shot of Alameda, California, and you'll see an arresting site: a downed commercial aircraft spewing debris, with its wings snapped into pieces and its hull cut cleanly in... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Scientists Want To Track Diseased Mice from Space [Science] Scientists can track deadly hantavirus-carrying mice (yes, deadly mice) using satellite images of flourishing vegetation, according to a new study. Spying on mouse food from space could give doctors the ability to predict outbreaks—an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	We're Going to Investigate Europa's 62-Mile Deep Ocean for Signs of Life [Space] It's official: NASA and the ESA will be sending specialized probes to the Jupiter moon Europa to further investigate that icy, ocean-y place for signs of life. In 2020. Patience! More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
24	Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. White A NASA photograph of the midwest megastorm gives profound visual truth to what it means for a snowstorm to blanket the United States. The image was captured Jan. 31 from space by the GOES 13 satellite, which regularly photographs Eastern half of the plan... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	British Satellites Will Beam Info Down From Space Using Android Smartphones [Space] The communication components in smartphones and satellites aren't all that different, except that satellite guts are better rated for external factors like temperature and impact. But one British aerospac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Giant F*cking Rocket Carries Spy Satellite Into Orbit [Video] Sure, it's just another Delta IV rocket carrying another top-secret spy satellite into orbit, but it's also a reminder that WE CAN SEND SHIT INTO SPACE, and that's always awesome. Like watching space shi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Google and George Clooney Aim Satellites at Sudan, Become "Anti-Genocide Paparazzi" [Satellites] Ahead of an early January referendum, the two partners, along with Harvard and the United Nations, want Sudanese rebels to know that they are being watched. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Mysterious "Pioneer Anomaly" All But Debunked? [Pioneer] As recently as September scientists were perplexed about a strange, unexplained acceleration affecting the Pioneer spacecraft. Measurements didn't match up. Heads were scratched. New physics were excited ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Up Close and Personal with Hyperion, Saturn's Mysterious Ugly Potato Moon [Video] In November, the Cassini probe got very, very close to Hyperion, one of Saturns many moons. These 61 frames comprise a fly-by movie of the moon. Defrost the thing and add some sour cream and it's good eno... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Three Russian GLONASS Satellites Are In the Pacific Following Catastrophic Rocket Launch [Disaster] Heads up, Hawaii! Three Russian GLONASS satellites just went into the Pacific drink courtesy a failed Proton-M rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Дерьмо! More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Have $150,000? Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor [Video] A school bus-sized satellite—the world's most capable—is for sale, as its corporate owner goes under. But rather than let it slowly die, a non-profit is raising money to repurpose it as a fre... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Russia Spending $2 Billion to Play Garbage Man in Outer Space [Space] All those defunct satellites up in space? They don't just float away into the ether. Instead, they make space travel dangerous. That's why Russia is spending $2 billion on a craft to clean up around 600 p... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hungary's Toxic Sludge Spill Viewed From Space [Catastrophes] With workers racing to build emergency dams in an effort to prevent a second catastrophe, new satellite imagery from NASA shows the horrifying scale of the toxic sludge spill that has killed eight and inu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Dried-Out Lake Used as Massive White Balance for Satellites [Photography] Just like when photographers use a piece of white paper to calibrate their cameras, British scientists are using this dried-out Turkish lake to set the white balance of Earth observation satellites. Mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Most Remote FaceTime Call on the Planet [Facetime] On the right: the spot on the globe most isolated from land, separated by over a thousand miles from the nearest landmass in every direction. On the left: an iPhone 4 FaceTime call from that exact locati... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	GPS Map Made With One Really, Really Long Walk [GPS] This is a map of The University of Warwick's 700 acre campus. If some of the lines are a little bit squiggly, that's because all 238 miles of them were walked on foot, traced by a GPS satellite. More&n... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Space Robot Will Repair Ships and Bring Satellites to Fiery Doom [Robots] Meet Justin, the space robot. He's clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he's a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era. If they're... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	GPS Signals Will Improve Thanks To Massive $8bn Overhaul [GPS] Despite fears last year that the Air Force wouldn't be able to afford many more GPS satellites, a massive $8bn upgrade is being planned for overhauling the satellites, replacing each of the 24 satellites ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Nanotech Breakthrough Could Make Satellite Imaging 20x More Powerful [Nanotech] Take a few of my favorite subjects: quantum dots, satellites, and gold. Mix them together, and what do you get? A breakthrough from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that could revolutionize infrared detec... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Prettiest Way To Learn About Satellites [Satellites] This Is Real Art, a company that aims to "bridge the gap between design and advertising," recently completed a series of animated videos on the subject of satellites. They're the perfect combination: the subject matter is geeky, the animation gorgeous. Th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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