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URSI Update #2

January 8, 2009 · 4 Comments

Categories: astronomy · science
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  • Greg // January 8, 2009 at 13:35 | Reply

    Love that Saturn Pic. I think everybody who’s seen it has it as the wallpaper on at least one of their gadgets (I have it on at least two :-) )

  • Bente Lilja Bye // January 8, 2009 at 15:59 | Reply

    Great summary of VLBI and VLBA. A good chunk of planetary geodesy here, too. :-)

    I’ve been in the same room as the stack of servers that compose the Chinese correlator in Shangai. :-) See:

    Shanghai Astronomical Observatory

    Did you discuss the use of quasars?

  • NiteSkyGirl // January 10, 2009 at 15:22 | Reply

    That was great to read.I’ve been following the Cassini mission for a year now and enjoying adding the latest updates in my Nite Sky News section of my blog. I’ve been writting my theories I have on how the moons are actually different planets and we are exploring more than one planet named Saturn.

    Enjoyed one person’s view of being there.

  • Nicole // January 10, 2009 at 20:10 | Reply

    Thanks, guys!

    No, Bente, there wasn’t much talk of the science done at these observatories, mostly the instrumentation. Just curious, is there a particular subset of quasars that are typically used in geodesy?

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