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1 Sep 2010 at 1:03pm  NASA image from Lunar and Planetary Institute Flickr siteThe LPI Library continues adding NASA press images to our Flickr site. Recent images inlcude: Baby Stars in Galactic Rat's Nest Titan's Lingering Clouds The Story Titan's Dunes Tell Hephaestus Fossae Perspective View Proctor Crater Dunes Kaguya Impact Site Read more...
1 Sep 2010 at 1:02pm The Internet Archive, NASA, and Flickr have launched NASA on The Commons.Today the Internet Archive, NASA, and Flickr are together launching NASA on The Commons, a new way to view and interact with photos from NASA. NASA on The Commons invites the public to contribute information and knowledge to curated photo sets provided by nasaimages.org. Visitors will be able to add tags, keywords, and annotations to three compilations of images curated by the New Media Innovation Team at NASA Ames and NASA photography and history experts across the Agency. The three collections, spanning more than half a century of NASA history, include: Launch and Takeoff, Building NASA, and Center Namesakes. Read more...
1 Sep 2010 at 1:02pm There is a new eBook from NASA, NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Vol. 1 edited by Richard P. Hallion. It is available in mobi, prc, pdf, and epub formats.Since its creation, NASA has steadily advanced flight within the atmosphere, repeatedly influencing aviation's evolution by extending the rich legacy of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. This first volume in a two-volume set includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions such as high-speed wing design, the area rule, rotary-wing aerodynamics research, sonic boom mitigation, hypersonic design, computational fluid dynamics, electronic flight control and environmentally friendly aircraft technology. Read more...
1 Sep 2010 at 1:01pm The Planetary Data System (PDS) has announced the availability of Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) cartographic map of Saturn's moon Mimas. The volume designation of this delivery is coiss_3006. PDS has also announced delivery of Odyssey Radio Science Data, Release 98. Read more...
25 Aug 2010 at 9:27am There will be a free public talk at Lunar and Planetary Institute, Sept 16. Inquisitive adults are invited to attend the presentation Comparative Climatology by Dr. Andrew Ingersoll of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Ingersoll investigates the lessons learned from the climates of Mars and Venus. This free public presentation on September 16 is part of the Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). Ingersoll?s talk is the first presentation in this year?s theme, "Changing Climates in the Solar System." LPI?s Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m., and will be followed by a light reception. No reservation is necessary. Read more...
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The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a focus for academic participation in studies of the current state, evolution, and formation of the solar system. The Institute is housed in the USRA Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS), located at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77058, and includes a computing center, extensive collections of lunar and planetary data, an image-processing facility, an extensive library, education and public outreach programs, resources, and products. The LPI also offers publishing services and facilities for workshops and conferences.
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