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PHOENIX, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IO, the leading provider of Data Center 2.0 technology for the world's largest enterprises, governments and service providers, today announced the company has been awarded a contract by Encore Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECPG), one of Fortune's "100 Fastest Growing Companies" and a leader in debt management and recovery solutions. IO will provide Encore with Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) which leverages IO's proprietary technology -...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), along with researchers from abroad, have discovered that Earth’s own natural satellite shares a striking similarity with Vesta, and perhaps other large asteroids roaming around the Solar System. The Moffett Field, California-based NLSI found that the same population of high-speed projectiles that bombarded the Moon four billion years ago, also impacted the giant asteroid...
Grants Help 4-H Clubs Expand Science, Engineering, and Technology Activities REDLANDS, Calif., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esri has awarded grants to 4-H groups in 10 states in its 2013 GIS Grants for 4-H Program. For almost 10 years, 4-H youth clubs across the United States have participated in the program, using ArcGIS to explore and analyze problems in their local communities. The club's involvement with GIS has increased so much that the theme for the 2013 4-H National Youth...
Address Will Discuss Proven Styles for Successful Web and Software Design REDLANDS, Calif., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jared M. Spool, the forefather of user experience (UX) research and founder of the world's largest usability research organization, will deliver the Keynote Address at this year's Esri International Developer Summit (DevSummit) in Palm Springs, California. Spool's address, "The Anatomy of Design Decisions," will focus on five styles of decision making for...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronomers writing in the journal Nature Geoscience say they have been closely monitoring the movement of a huge whirlwind the size of Europe on Venus. Researchers from Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV) used an instrument on board the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft to monitor the evolution of the south pole vortex. The team monitored the movement of the vortex on two separate main cloud levels in Venus'...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of the most popular theories on the disappearance of the dinosaurs surrounds the 110 mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. Many scientists believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid that crashed into Earth, leaving only a massive crater behind. However, a group of American scientists is presenting a theory that the culprit was actually a speeding comet, not a relatively slow-moving asteroid as many theories assert....
Computer-Based Lessons from Esri Press Complement College Curriculum REDLANDS, Calif., March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Designed for disciplines across the entire university, SpatiaLABS 2013 Edition complements and enhances an instructor's course with geospatial investigations. The computer-based lab sessions, published by Esri Press, build students' spatial reasoning and analysis skills. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130322/LA82197) (Logo:...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online On March 10, 2013, NASA scientists obtained a sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET using the 230-foot Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California. At the time the images were captured, the asteroid was about 693,000 miles from Earth, or approximately 2.9 lunar distances. The asteroid is irregularly shaped and at least 130 feet wide according to the radar imagery. The scientific team, led by Marina Brozovic and Lance...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Nina Lanza announced at the 44th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas that Curiosity's ChemCam laser could be offering some detailed inside information about the Red Planet's surface. NASA's Curiosity rover has a laser-shooting instrument onboard known as the ChemCam, which is used to vaporize a pinpoint of rock surface. The instrument is able to...
Free Webinar Discusses How Location Analytics Provides a More Streamlined Workflow for Insurance Field-Workers REDLANDS, Calif., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esri, the world-leading provider of GIS and location analytics software, and Motion Computing, a global provider of mobile computing solutions and rugged tablet technology, have aligned to help insurance agencies improve their claims workflow. By providing access to Esri's ArcGIS platform on ruggedized tablets, everyone in an...
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Image Caption: Artistic concept of a planetary system. Credit: Wikipedia/NASA/JPL-Caltech The term Astronomy encompasses a broad range of topics, including the study of stars, galaxies, and planets. In order to focus on the different areas of study, many subfields of astronomy emerge. One such area is the study of planets known, appropriately, as Planetary Astronomy. Observational Planetary Astronomy Even within the field of Planetary Astronomy, there are several divisions to...
Solar cycles: what are they and why should we care about them? Solar cycles are made up of what are known as solar minimums (min) and solar maximums (max). We refer to a solar min at the time when the sun is not active with many sunspots, while a solar max is just the opposite when we see a large increase in sunspot activity. So how long do solar cycles last? Typically they run on what is known as an 11 year cycle from the max to the min and then start over again anew. As of 2012 we...
Planetary and Space Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1959 and published by Elsevier 15 times per year. As of May 2012, the editor-in-chief is Rita Schulz (The Netherlands). The journal publishes original research articles and short communications. The main focus is on solar system processes which encompass multiple areas of the natural sciences. Research that involves planetary and space sciences involves many disciplines. Celestial mechanics is part of these...
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors is a biweekly published peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. As of April 2012, co-editors are G. Aelfric (University of Bristol), K. Hirose (Tokyo Institute of Technology), M. Jellinek (University of British Columbia), and K. Zhang (University of Exeter). This journal focuses on the physical and chemical processes of planetary interiors. Topics covered include planetary physics, geodesy and geophysics. Publishing formats...
Geophysical Journal International is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publish monthly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society and the German Geophysical Society. The editor-in-chief is Jeannot Trampert of TA Utrecht, the Netherlands. The primary focus of this journal is fundamental research in Geophysics. Publishing formats are original research, research notes, letters, and book reviews. Coverage includes computational, theoretical, observational and applied...
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