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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Selects UT Austin As Research And Education Partner
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected The University of Texas at Austin for its Strategic University Research Partnership program — a federally funded program focused on advancing space exploration.
The partnership will enable the university and JPL researchers to propose collaborative research and educational projects in strategic focus areas such as robotics, nanosatellites and high-precision mapping. The program also creates an employment pipeline for JPL’s future workforce.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of 12 universities that have been selected for this partnership.
Full Story: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/7417-nasapartnership
NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships
NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2012 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.
Graduate students must apply under a specific research topic to align with NASA’s aeronautics research programs. The list of available topics is posted online.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/sep/HQ_11-279_AERO_Scholars.html
New Images of Solar Wind As It Impacts Earth
Courtesy SwRI/NASA
Using data collected by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft, researchers at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma and other particles from a coronal mass ejection (CME) traveled 93 million miles and impacted Earth.
Full Story: http://swri.org/9what/releases/2011/solarwind.htm
NASA Research Confirms it’s a Small World, After All
This view of Earth comes from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite. Image credit: NASA
A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.
Since Charles Darwin’s time, scientists have speculated that the solid Earth might be expanding or contracting. That was the prevailing belief, until scientists developed the theory of plate tectonics, which explained the large-scale motions of Earth’s lithosphere, or outermost shell. Even with the acceptance of plate tectonics half a century ago, some Earth and space scientists have continued to speculate on Earth’s possible expansion or contraction on various scientific grounds.
Now a new NASA study, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, has essentially laid those speculations to rest. Using a cadre of space measurement tools and a new data calculation technique, the team detected no statistically significant expansion of the solid Earth.
