Spacecraft “Dawn” reaches the Asteroid Belt
Wed, 23 May 2012 08:58:13 -0700
Last July a NASA-sponsored spacecraft called “Dawn” slipped into orbit about the first of its planned destinations — the asteroid Vesta, which is the second-largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. About 5 percent of meteorites recovered after falling to earth are believed to have come from Vesta’s surface. The Asteroid Belt [...]
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Panasas Parallel Storage Accelerates Scientific Discovery At California Institute Of Technology
Tue, 15 May 2012 05:00:00 -0700
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas , Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced that Caltech's ...
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Greater insight into earthquake cycles
Fri, 11 May 2012 10:17:04 -0700
For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the ...
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