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Antarctica About to Calve Massive Iceberg – Photos and Video

By On February 2, 2012

In recognition of the start of the 2012 Ice Season, which typically runs from February through July, we bring you this photo showing a massive crack across the Pine Island [...]

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Interesting Ship of The Week – NASA Recovery Ships

By On July 8, 2011

Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives in commemoration of the last space shuttle launch today, July 8th, 2011. When one thinks [...]

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Solid Rocket Booster Recovery At Sea – HD Video

By On March 20, 2011

This is the first ever up-close, high-definition video of Kennedy Space Center’s solid rocket booster (SRB) recovery ships retrieving SRB segments from the Atlantic Ocean following a space shuttle launch. [...]

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NASA Hurricane Forecasting – GRIP

By On July 27, 2010

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, will use 15 cutting edge instruments, a Global Hawk UAV, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 and a Martin WB-57F Canberra to gain [...]

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Ship Tracks Seen From Space

By On July 16, 2010

This is pretty cool.  The photo above is from National Geographics collection of “Space Photos This Week” and is titled Ship Tracks in Sky.  Using NASA’s Terra Satellite, the image [...]

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NASA to take a birdseye view of hurricanes like never before

By On July 13, 2010

Forum member and unofficial gCaptain weather guru, Fredwx, points us to an interesting article detailing NASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes experiment, which aims to provide scientist with an unprecedented [...]

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Solar Spacecraft To Help Ships Avoid Whales

By On June 21, 2008

The Telegraph tells us of A spy plane designed by Nasa will help track whales in the Mediterranean to try to prevent collisions between the giant mammals and ships. Around [...]

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