Fabulous New Saturn Images are Released

Fabulous New Saturn Images are Released By Dennis D. McDonald Check out the incredible images of Saturn now available on the Cassini Mission News page maintained by NASA. Here are a few:

CHemSPider - OVER 10 MILLION COMPOUNDS ONLINE

ChemZoo Announce the Release of the ChemSpider Service.

ChemZoo, Inc. today announced the launch of their ChemSpider Service (http://www.chemspider.com/), an online resource for chemists to search, aggregate and data mine publicly available chemical data. At time of release over 10 million compounds are indexed in the ChemSpider database including the PubChem collection and data provided by a number of other collaborators.

ChemSpider has produced a value-added offering of the publicly available chemical structure databases by adding additional predicted property information generated as a result of their collaborations with property prediction software providers including Advanced Chemistry Development, ACD/Labs.

By delivering access to an aggregated database collection of over 10 million structures as well as access to transaction based predictions of systematic identifiers and physicochemical predictions ChemSpider hopes to position itself as one of the premier open access websites for chemists to access information. At the time of beta release structure and substructure searching are not available but should be released within the next few days.

The beta release was timed to coincide with the Spring ACS meeting.

NASA Image Archive Will Soon be Accessible Online

NASA Image Archive Will Soon be Accessible Online

NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers.

Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will be made available through a single, searchable "one-stop-shop" archive of NASA imagery.

"Making NASA's important scientific and space exploration imagery available and easily accessible online to all is a service of tremendous value to America, and we're pleased to partner with the experts at Internet Archive to accomplish this effort," said Robert Hopkins, chief of strategic communications at NASA Headquarters, Washington.

NASA selected Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, as a partner for digitizing and distributing agency imagery through a competitive process. The two organizations are teaming through a non-exclusive Space Act agreement to help NASA consolidate and digitize its imagery archives at no cost to the agency.

"We're dedicated to making all human knowledge available in the digital realm," said Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of Internet Archive. "The educational value of the images NASA has collected during the course of its five decades of scientific discovery is unprecedented. Digitizing NASA's imagery is a big step in Internet Archive's ongoing efforts to digitize a vast spectrum of content and make it freely accessible to the public in an easily searched online destination."

Under the terms of this five-year agreement, Internet Archive will digitize, host and manage still, moving and computer-generated imagery produced by NASA. In the first year, Internet Archive will consolidate NASA's major imagery collections. In the second year, digital imagery will be added to the archive. In the third year, NASA and Internet Archive will identify analog imagery to be digitized and added to this online collection.

In addition, Internet Archive will work with NASA to create a system through which new imagery will be captured, catalogued and included in the online archive automatically. To open this wealth of knowledge to people worldwide, Internet Archive will provide free public access to the online imagery, including downloads and search tools.

The imagery archive also may include other historically significant material such as audio files, printed documents and computer presentations.

[ http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/134266 ]

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Visible Earth - A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
JSC NASA Image Collection
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
KSC Shuttle Photo and Video Archive
GReat Images in NASA (GRiN)
NASA Human Space Flight Web, Multimedia Gallery
Aerospace Multimedia
Several Additional NASA Imagery Databases
Of course, one project we ve mentioned many times on ResourceShelf is
World Wind. It s open source and was started at NASA. It s a 3D digital
globe with numerous add-ons.

[ http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/09/05/nasa-and-internet-archive-make-announcement-a-selection-of-nasa-image-databases/ ]

Sorry

Sorry for no new content for a while -- been trying to figure out the intrinsicies of redesigning the template. I had it down in a test area but when I loaded it -- it pushed the links area to the bottom. Has something to do with the amout of text in the posts area, once I took out the link to Jim Borgman's blog it took of the problem. But I only see it as a temp fix..... Also want to add meebo to the area. Plus I haven't seen a lot of eng info to pass along.....

Sorry and Thanks -- HSM

Challenger from BorgBlog

From Jim Borgman's Blog

I love this guy's work!

Engineering Cartoon -- no pun intended!

Sorry for the bad pun -- pulled up the 1st image that looked good before I had to run to a meeting....

 

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This is a welcome/test message for my engineering information blog.....