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NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

"Kinetic" for Geoscientists

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Sensational !!! "HoloDesk" and "DisplayAir" is the Future ? No, is the Present

HoloDesk (Microsoft)

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DisplayAir

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Fantastic !!! New microscope without lenses

Microscope on the go: Cheap, portable, dual-mode microscope uses holograms, not lenses

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New Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM)

METI and NASA Release Version 2 ASTER Global DEM

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MundoGeo

Earth's gravity revealed in unprecedented detail

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Neighbouring volcanoes on Mars

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Curiosity Rover - Mars Science Laboratory - JPL/NASA

Technology Show

Capacities: Laboratory of Geology, suspension “rocker-bogie”, vaporizer of rocks the laser and diverse cameras
Mission: To look areas in Mars capable to support life in the past or gift and also conditions capable to preserve diverse types of life.
Launching: Between November of 2011 and 18 of December of 2011, Canaveral Handle, Flórida.
Arrived: August of 2012
Time of mission: 1 year Martian, about 23 terrestrial months.

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First Rocky Planet (Kepler-10 Discover)

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b (link). Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from May 2009 to early January 2010. “All of Kepler’s best capabilities have converged to yield the first solid evidence of a rocky planet orbiting a star other than our sun,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler’s deputy science team lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.,.....

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[Astrobiology NASA]

"Rock by Rock or Stone by Stone, but after of the Hammered is the Mineral which Survives"

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"O Martelo de Thor"

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Crater discovered in Google Earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/ciencia/2010/09/100927_cratera_googleearth_rp.shtml

Brazilian Masterpiece

Walério Torres de Azevedo

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Transistor Óptico Quântico

Optical quantum transistor using single atoms


Physicists at MPQ control the optical properties of a single atom!

Due to the continued miniaturization of computer chip components, we are about to cross a fundamental boundary where technology can no longer rely on the laws of the macroscopic world. With this in mind, scientists all over the world are researching technologies based on quantum effects that can be used to communicate and process information. One of the most promising developments in this direction are quantum networks in which single photons communicate the information between different nodes, e.g. single atoms. There the information can be stored and processed. A key element in these systems is Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT), an effect that allows to radically change the optical properties of an atomic medium by means of light. Previously, scientists have studied this effect and its amazing properties, using atomic ensembles with hundreds of thousands of atoms. Now, scientists in the group of Prof. Gerhard Rempe, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching and Head of the Quantum Dynamics Division, have managed to control the optical response of a single atom using laser light (Nature, Ad-vanced Online Publication, DOI: 10.1038 /nature09093 May 2010). While representing a corner stone in the development of new quantum based technologies, these results are also fundamental for the understanding of how the quantum behaviour of single atoms can be controlled with light.

Revista FAPESP

MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUTE

NATURE
Advanced Online Publication
(DOI: 10.1038/nature09093, May 2010)

Discovering the Solar System

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject for science students, and examines the discovery, investigation and modelling of these bodies. Following a thematic approach, chapters cover interiors, surfaces and the atmospheres of major bodies, including the Earth. The book starts with an overview of the Solar System and its origin, and then takes a look at small bodies, such as asteroids, comets and meteorites.

• Offers a comprehensive introduction, assuming little prior knowledge.
• Includes full coverage of each planet, as well as the moon, Europa and Titan. The Second Edition includes new material on exoplanetary systems, and a general update throughout.
• Presents latest results from the Mars Rover and Cassini-Huygens missions
• Includes a colour plate section

2007 | Wiley | ISBN: 0470018305 | PDF | 470 pages | 10,7 mb

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Projeto de planetologia comparada revela descobertas sobre Marte

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REPORTAGEM UNICAMP

Volcano Beneath Yellowstone - Yellowstone Supervolcano!

Geology - USGS

Mapeamento Espectro-Mineral da Lua

Quantificando Informações Geológicas

MATLAB
Recipes for Earth Sciences

(2006)

Martin H. Trauth

EN: MATLAB is used in a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces basic methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB. The text includes a brief description of each method and numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on data sets from earth sciences. All MATLAB recipes can be easily modified in order to analyse the reader's own data sets. The book comes with a CD containing exemplary data sets and a digital version of the MATLAB recipes.

PT: MATLAB é utilizado em uma ampla gama de aplicações em geociências, como processamento de imagens em sensoriamento remoto, geração e processamento de modelos digitais de elevação e da análise de séries temporais. Este livro apresenta métodos básicos de análise de dados em geociências utilizando MATLAB. O texto inclui uma breve descrição de cada método e numerosos exemplos que demonstram como MATLAB podem ser usados em conjuntos de dados de ciências da terra. Todas as receitas MATLAB pode ser facilmente modificado, a fim de analisar define o leitor próprios dados. O livro vem com um CD contendo conjuntos de exemplares de dados e uma versão digital das receitas MATLAB.

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Espectroscopia de Última Geração

Solid-State Mid-Infrared Laser Sources
(Topics in Applied Physics)
2003

Irina T. Sorokina, Konstantin L. Vodopyanov

EN: The book describes the most advanced techniques for generating coherent light in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum. These techniques represent diverse areas of photonics and include heterojunction semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade lasers, tunable crystalline lasers, fiber lasers, Raman lasers, and optical parametric laser sources. Offering authoritative reviews by internationally recognized experts, the book provides a wealth of information on the essential principles and methods of the generation of coherent mid-infrared light and on some of its applications. The instructive nature of the book makes it an excellent text for physicists and practicing engineers who want to use mid-infrared laser sources in spectroscopy, medicine, remote sensing and other fields, and for researchers in various disciplines requiring a broad introduction to the subject.

PT: O livro descreve as técnicas mais avançadas para a geração de luz coerente na região infravermelha do espectro. Estas técnicas representam diversas áreas de fotônica e incluem heterojunção lasers semicondutores, lasers de cascata quântica, lasers sintonizáveis cristalina, fiber lasers, lasers Raman, ópticos e fontes de laser paramétricos. Oferecendo opiniões autoritário por especialistas reconhecidos internacionalmente, o livro oferece uma riqueza de informações sobre os princípios essenciais e os métodos de geração de coerente luz infravermelha e em algumas das suas aplicações. O carácter instrutivo do livro torna-o um excelente texto para os físicos e engenheiros profissionais que querem usar meados de fontes de laser infravermelho em espectroscopia, medicina, sensoriamento remoto e de outros campos, e por pesquisadores de diversas disciplinas que exigem uma ampla introdução ao assunto.

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