... miles away underscores Earth’s smallness, and perhaps its specialness. The Breakthrough Prize Foundation describes the image as “a mirror held up to our planet - home of water, life, and minds. It is a reminder that we share something precious and...
...- political missions, technical missions, personal missions, environmental missions, our social and economic missions. This one image embodies the reality that everyone and everything that shares this planet is undeniably interconnected. Our missions...
... with them,” he said. Comprised of four independent, two inch high by two inch diameter chambers, it contains hundreds of images, poems, pieces of music, nano-objects, mechanisms and earthly samples intertwined through complex narratives that blur...
...on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), the image shows the entire sunlit side of Earth (picturing North and... space weather alerts from NOAA. What’s particularly amazing about the image is that it is taken from a million miles away. Launched...
... The specially designed optical instrument onboard a low-cost 16U CubeSat platform will generate a huge set of images (big data) at different illumination levels, which will demand sophisticated algorithms to detect the emergence of clandestine roads...
...a so-called ‘externally occulted’ coronagraph, with the satellite imager shielded from glaring sunlight by an occulting disk on the ... the fields of view of solar extreme ultraviolet imagers and conventional space coronagraphs, and to understand the...