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Engineers Test Wright Glider Replica In Wind Tunnel
November 2, 2001 — Before they learned to fly, the Wright brothers learned to glide. A life-size reproduction of one of the aviation pioneers' early gliders has undergone wind tunnel tests at NASA's Langley ... > full story -
Stable Power Supply Thanks To Wind Turbines
October 9, 2001 — Wind turbines can help keep the voltage in the electricity network at a constant level. The power electronics in the turbines can effectively correct peaks and dips in the mains voltage. This is the ... > full story -
Ulysses Forecasts Weather At Sun's North Pole
September 4, 2001 — Space physicists predict gusty winds for the next few months at the Sun's north pole, an area that will be observed when the Ulysses spacecraft passes over it starting on Aug. 31. This pass over ... > full story -
NASA's Wind Spacecraft Flies Through Earth's Magnetic Tail And Captures Rare Event In Action
July 26, 2001 — Thanks to a fluke encounter while flying through the Earth's magnetic tail two years ago, NASA's Wind spacecraft may have solved a long-standing mystery about how the sun's magnetic field ... > full story -
Genesis Set To Catch A Piece Of The Sun
July 12, 2001 — NASA'S next robotic space explorer is ready to do a little sunbathing on a mission to catch a wisp of raw material from the luminous celestial body around which the Earth and other planets ... > full story -
Scripps Scientists Show For The First Time How Much Ocean Whitecaps Impact Global Temperatures
May 9, 2001 — A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has dramatically elevated the importance and influence of oceanic whitecaps on global ... > full story -
Engineers Study Baseball Flight
April 12, 2001 — Any baseball fan knows there's nothing simple about throwing a perfect pitch. Now engineers at the University of California, Davis, have stepped up to the plate to back up a pitcher's ... > full story -
How To Keep Invasive Plants Out Of Forest Fragments
March 8, 2001 — Fragmented habitat is vulnerable partly because it has more edges, which are susceptible to invasion by non-native species. While the obvious solution of minimizing the amount of edge is not always ... > full story -
Predicting El Nino With The Help Of A Wind Trigger
February 7, 2001 — Just as a spark can grow into a fire, so small departures of winds from the normal seasonal cycle in the far western equatorial Pacific can trigger a full-blown El Nino. Writing in the February 15 ... > full story -
Mars' Patchwork Magnetic Field Acts As Array Of Umbrellas To Protect Planet's Atmosphere, According To New Mapping Study By Mars Global Surveyor
December 19, 2000 — Though Mars lacks a global protective magnetic shield like that of the Earth, strong localized magnetic fields embedded in the crust appear to be a significant barrier to erosion of the atmosphere by ... > full story
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