NASA to Donate Data to Aid Plants, Animals
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While NASA is best known for putting a man on the moon, the U.S. space agency will now help keep plant and animal species on Earth.
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By SONIA SMITH Earth is already endowed with frozen and liquid water, but it gained a few more frozen fruits and vegetables at Sunday's Oasis in Space day at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.
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NASA said Tuesday it is recycling two used spacecraft to lead new robotic missions to study comets and planets around other stars. The encore performances of the Deep Impact and Stardust probes allow the space agency to further its solar system exploration for a fraction of the cost it would take to start a mission from scratch.
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(InfoWorld) - Google and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed a formal collaboration agreement that calls for Google to help make NASA information readily accessible on the Web. Google and NASA announced on Monday the signing of their Space Act Agreement, which calls for them to collaborate on making it easy for people to find weather visualization and forecasting data, see high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars and track, in real time, the International Space Station and the space shuttle. In short, the partnership seeks to make NASA's work "accessible to everyone," Google and NASA said in a statement. Although NASA has collected massive amounts of information about Earth and the universe, this information is scattered and hard to find and is difficult for the average person to understand, they said. The two organizations will also tackle what they consider to be challenging technical problems in areas like large-scale data management, massively distributed computing and user interfaces. In September of last year,Â Google and NASA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)Â to collaborate on solving technical problems. That MOU also called for Google to develop up to 1 million square feet within the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field. NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations in areas like research, products, facilities and education. The organizations will hold a press conference pn Monday afternoon to offer more information about their partnership.
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NASA and Google have agreed to work together to make NASAâs vast trove of space and weather data widely available on the Internet.
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NOAA is leading a project to let natural resources professionals find data that isn't accessible to search engines.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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The organization responsible for the $10 million Ansari X Prize announces it will send a DVD to the moon with personal photos and messages from the general public. It's called the Lunar Legacy Program and you can submit stuff.
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By Frank Munger  Cause and effect.  A couple of years ago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory invested a few million dollars in computer-controlled greenhouses for the lab's environmental research division. Now it's paying off with expanded work in plant genetics.
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Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.
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By Sara Faiwell  sfaiwell@@dailyherald.com  What do you get when you cross a baby monitor and a science teacher?  Apparently, live feeds off a NASA space mission.
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A team of international scientists launched an ambitious project on Thursday to genetically identify, or provide a barcode for, every plant and animal species on the planet.
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Agreement will allow the public to track the space shuttles and space station and more.
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Scientists are now optimistic some valuable data can be salvaged from the wrecked capsule of the solar mission.
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A new satellite-based information system will quickly spread environmental and health data across the world so that developing countries can anticipate catastrophes such as drought, storms and floods &#151; for only about $1,500 in setup costs.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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Taxpayers are funding a telescope to  search for space aliens and research devoted to improving the  shelf-life of vegetables, part of $13.2 billion in  special-interest projects the U.S. Congress approved last year,  a private watchdog group said on Wednesday.