NASA Says they can Predict When California Will Get Rain

Scientists at NASA say they have identified a rare weather pattern that will help forecasters predict when California will experience periods of intense and potentially prolonged wet weather.

Read more here:

http://www.modbee.com/2013/11/18/3039329/nasa-identifies-rare-weather-pattern.html

NASA Wants to Lasso an Asteroid?

Have a look at this plan...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/can-nasa-s-new-xenon-ion-engine-help-lasso-an-asteroid-1.1300054

NASA Captures Solar Flares

On May 13/14, the Sun blew off a series of three powerful solar flares, gigantic explosions equal to millions of nuclear bombs. These happened just over the side of the Sun, and present no danger to us on Earth. But NASA's SDO saw the whole thing.

Mona Lisa - To the Moon

From Popular Science:

    NASA converted an image of the Mona Lisa into a black and white, 152-by-200 pixel image. After that, they signaled to the orbiter how bright to make each pixel by delaying the message (or “pulse) to one of 4,096 slots in a very small time-frame. In other words, instead of a continuous stream of pulses in regular intervals, the laser varied the time between intervals. Depending on the length of that variation, the pixel appeared one of 4,096 shades of gray. Rinse and repeat with each pixel until you have the Mona Lisa.

    There were still some kinks in the transmission — some of the pixels weren’t the right shade of gray — but scientists corrected for it through processes that are used in correcting problems with CDs and DVDs.

NASA To Send Another Rover to Mars

NASA announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. The plan to design and build a new Mars robotic science rover brings a total of seven NASA missions operating or being planned to study and explore our Earth-like neighbor.

The 2020 mission will constitute another step toward being responsive to high-priority science goals and the president's challenge of sending humans to Mars orbit in the 2030s.