High-Res Maps Of Entire Polar Regions Provide Clues For Climate Researchers

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:57:22 +0000

Four more years of high-resolution imagery data have been released to show the polar regions in stunning detail, thanks to a hard-working team of researchers at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. The new images have been added to eight years of previous data, which introduce the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Using […]

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NASA Space Tech Could Help EVs Charge In 5 Minutes, But Do We Really Need That?

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:30:55 +0000

Space is a tough place to be. People complain online about Texas weather swinging from hot to freezing in mere days or hours (and maybe even display weather that belongs in all four seasons within a week), but just a couple hundred miles above the state, the swings are even more wild. Near the Earth, […]

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Eviation Elbows Into Crowded Electric Aircraft Field With New “Alice” Zero Emission Airplane

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:00:37 +0000

electric aircraft Eviation Alice zero emission aviationElectric aircraft have been slow to take flight, but a new burst of momentum is brewing as the firm Eviation launches the first flight of its Alice zero emission aircraft.

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Flow Batteries For Electric Vehicles?

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:50:30 +0000

energy storage flow battery electric vehiclesA new flow battery for electric vehicles is getting attention from DARPA, NASA, and the US Air Force.

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NASA to Aviation Industry: We Can Develop Flight Tech to Cut Carbon Emissions

Credit to Author: NASA| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:00:48 +0000

NASA announced Wednesday the agency is seeking partners to develop technologies needed to shape a new generation of lower-emission, single-aisle airliners that passengers could see in airports in the 2030s. Through its new Announcement for Partnership Proposals, NASA intends to fund one or more awards to design, build, test, and fly a large-scale demonstrator with an […]

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NASA Picks Three Nuclear Power Concepts for Demonstration on the Moon

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:38:28 +0000

Three teams comprising some of the most prominent engineering and technology firms in the U.S. will provide initial designs for a fission surface power (FSP) system as part of a federal project to demonstrate a 40-kW nuclear reactor for power applications on the moon. NASA and Battelle Energy Alliance—the contracted entity that manages and operates […]

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