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California's superbloom phenomenon is so big and bright this year it can be seen from space. NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, which was launched in 2021 to capture images of Earth's land surface, sent back images of bright purple and green blooms in Carrizo Plain National Park. A superbloom occurs when desert areas in Southern California receive more rain or cooler weather through the fall and winter, allowing more flowers to thrive. The term "superbloom," however, is not a scientific one: It was created by the media to describe these colorful, robust blooms, said said Cameron Barrows, an associate research ecologist...

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IN the early 1990's, when the pioneers of satellite radio raised the first of the billions they needed to get their ventures aloft, the premise was fairly simple: create services that would be to old-fashioned radio what cable television was to broadcast TV. That meant providing scores of niche radio channels with high-quality signals in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. By blanketing the nation with signals beamed from on high, there would be no need for all those transmitting towers, no utter dependence on advertising and no pesky etiquette rules from the Federal Communications Commission to observe. And, the...

European satellite CryoSat was ruined with Ukrainian electronics The Reason of failure of a booster rocket "Roar" with European scientific satellite CryoSat became sofware failure in the equipment of bosster block management " Breeze-km ", "Businessman" informs. This equipment has been developed on Kharkov joint-stock company "HARTRON". "Roar" has been created on the basis of two-level ballistic missiles RS-18 removed from arm forces (on NATO classification - SS-19). It consists of three steps - first two represent the block of accelerators of strategic rocket RS-18 (on NATO classification - SS-19), as the third step is "Breeze-km". Failure has occured on...

NEW YORK - Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Flash: Newspaper reports baseless rumor? Readers are wondering if the New York Post has done it again. On Wednesday, the News Corp. tabloid reported that Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio were beginning the dance of merger negotiations. But the Post, every Gothamite's guilty pleasure, has a colorful history of shooting from the hip: Last year, the newssheet, famed for its "Headless Body in Topless Bar" front page, became a darling of eBay shoppers when it declared that presidential candidate John Kerry would pick Dick Gephardt as his...

Biggest Pinhole Camera Ever Summary - (Oct 1, 2004) A common science experiment for young kids is to build a pinhole camera. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder think NASA should build a gigantic one in space and use it to find planets orbiting other stars. The "New Worlds Imager" would be a football field-sized opaque light shade with a small opening right at the centre to let light through. A detector spacecraft would sit thousands of kilometres back and collect the light that comes through the opening. The shade would block the light from the star and...