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- Solar booster shot for natural gas power plants
- Ice cloud heralds fall at Titan's south pole
- NASA Mars Orbiter images may show 1971 Soviet lander
- NASA's asteroid initiative: Robotically capture small near-Earth asteroid and explore it
- Bose-Einstein condensates evaluated for quantum computers
- Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system consumes no electricity
| Solar booster shot for natural gas power plants Posted: 11 Apr 2013 12:23 PM PDT A new system reduces carbon emissions and fuel usage at natural gas power plants by 20 percent by injecting solar energy into natural gas.  |
| Ice cloud heralds fall at Titan's south pole Posted: 11 Apr 2013 11:31 AM PDT An ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from an unknown ice, this type of cloud has long hung over Titan's north pole, where it is now fading, according to new observations.  |
| NASA Mars Orbiter images may show 1971 Soviet lander Posted: 11 Apr 2013 10:33 AM PDT Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five-year-old image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four pieces of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 mission: the parachute, heat shield, terminal retrorocket and lander. A follow-up image by the orbiter from last month shows the same features.  |
| NASA's asteroid initiative: Robotically capture small near-Earth asteroid and explore it Posted: 11 Apr 2013 08:34 AM PDT NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.  |
| Bose-Einstein condensates evaluated for quantum computers Posted: 11 Apr 2013 07:58 AM PDT Physicists have examined how Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) might be used to provide communication among the nodes of a distributed quantum computer. The researchers determined the amount of time needed for quantum information to propagate across their BEC.  |
| Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system consumes no electricity Posted: 11 Apr 2013 04:54 AM PDT Researchers have produced a prototype of a self-cooling thermoelectric device that achieves "free" cooling of over 30ºC in devices that give off heat. It is a piece of equipment that acts as a traditional cooler but which consumes no electricity because it obtains the energy it needs to function from the very heat that has to be dissipated.  |
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