Latest Triton Stories
DALLAS, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) confirms that measurements taken by Second Wind's Triton wind profiler system of wind speed and direction correlated well to meteorological (met) tower-based measurements. "The Triton measurements correlated well with the met tower measurements during the six months we studied," said NREL Principal Scientist Dennis Elliott. "We see Triton as a valid stand-alone system...
DALLAS, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Confirming that wind power companies are using its Triton Wind Profiler systems widely and relying on them heavily, Second Wind announced today that Triton has amassed more than 900,000 hours of global wind data and will hit the one-million-hour mark in just a few weeks. "At the rate Triton units all over the world are now collecting data, we will easily surpass the one million hour mark in June," said Second Wind CEO Larry Letteney. "Seeing such a large data...
According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. The European observing team used ESO's Very Large Telescope and discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ground-based detection of methane in Triton's thin atmosphere. These observations revealed that the thin atmosphere varies seasonally, thickening when warmed."We have found real evidence that the Sun still makes its presence felt on Triton, even...
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ATM manufacturer Triton Systems of Delaware, Inc., a trusted leader in ATM affordability and service for 30 years, announced today the launch of ATMGurus (www.atmgurus.com). ATMGurus will specialize in providing parts, repair and training for multi-brand ATMs including Triton, Tranax, Nautilus Hyosung and other models. "We recognize that most customers operate estates with ATMs from a variety of manufacturers which poses a challenge," said Daryl...
SALT LAKE CITY, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan, one of the leading GPS brands, announces new advancements to its Triton series, including an improved user experience and overall product functionality of all Triton GPS devices and Magellan's VantagePoint desktop software. Magellan will showcase its enhanced Triton series at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market (booth #25011).Magellan reinvented outdoor GPS when it introduced the Triton series, empowering outdoor enthusiasts with advanced design...
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan, one of the leading GPS brands, announced the availability of its enhanced Triton software with an Improved North American Basemap for an even greater user experience. Magellan will showcase an enhanced Triton line-up in its booth #2177 at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Orlando beginning today and running through January 18, 2009. Magellan reinvented outdoor GPS when it introduced the Triton series by providing...
PASADENA, Calif. -- An international team of astronomers has discovered that Neptune's south pole is much hotter than the rest of the planet. They have published the first temperature maps of the lowest portion of Neptune's atmosphere, which show that this warm south pole is providing an avenue for methane to escape out of the deep atmosphere. "The temperatures are so high that methane gas, which should be frozen out in the upper part of Neptune's atmosphere, the stratosphere, can leak...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system. Eris is 1.27 times the mass of Pluto, formerly the largest member of the Kuiper Belt of icy objects beyond Neptune.Hubble observations in 2006 showed that Eris is slightly physically larger than Pluto. But the mass could only be calculated by observing the orbital motion of the moon Dysnomia around Eris....
SANTA CRUZ, CA -- Neptune's large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation (a "retrograde" orbit). It is unlikely to have formed in this configuration and was probably captured from elsewhere. In the May 11 issue of the journal Nature, planetary scientists Craig Agnor of the University of...
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Everyday ice used to chill that glass of lemonade has helped researchers better understand the internal structure of icy moons in the far reaches of the solar system. A research team has demonstrated a new kind of "creep" or flow in a high-pressure form of ice by creating in a laboratory the conditions of pressure, temperature, stress, and grain size that mimic those in the deep interiors of large icy moons. High-pressure phases of ice are major components of...
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Planet Nereid -- Nereid ("NEER ee ed") is the outermost of Neptune's known moons and the third largest, with a diameter of 340 km. Its orbit averages 5,513,400 km in radius, but is highly eccentric and varies from 1,353,600 to 9,623,700 kilometers. This is the most highly eccentric orbit of any known planet or satellite in the solar system. This unusual orbit suggests that it may be a captured asteroid or Kuiper belt object, or possibly that it was perturbed during the capture of...
Planet Triton -- Triton is the planet Neptune's largest moon, discovered by William Lassell in 1846 just 17 days after the planet itself was discovered. It is named after Triton, from Greek mythology. Triton is unique among all large moons in the solar system for its retrograde orbit around the planet (i.e., it orbits in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation). Jupiter's moons Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae and Sinope and Saturn's moon Phoebe also orbit retrograde, but all of them...
Planet Neptune -- Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It is a gas giant. Orbiting so far from the sun, Neptune receives very little heat. Its 'surface' temperature is -218 degrees Celsius (below zero). However, the planet seems to have an internal source of heat. It is thought that this may be leftover heat generated by infalling matter during the planet's birth, now slowly radiating away into space. Neptune's atmosphere has the highest wind speeds in the solar system, up to...
Saturn's moon Titan -- Titan is the planet Saturn's largest moon. It is larger than either of the planets Mercury or Pluto and is the second-largest moon in the solar system after Ganymede (it was originally thought to be slightly larger than Ganymede, but recent observations have shown that its thick atmosphere caused overestimation of its diameter). Titan was discovered on March 25, 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens, making it one of the first non-terrestrial moons to be...
