2011 August 22 - TrES 2b: Dark Planet. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 August 22 TrES-2b: Dark Planet Illustration Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA), TrES, Kepler, NASA Explanation: Why is this planet so dark? Tomorrow's picture: roll cloud Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech. Welcome to Google Docs. Picture of the day archive. Douglas Heaven, reporter (Image: Murdoch Ferguson/Ferguson Imaging) Other primates have opposable thumbs, sure, but only we have an app for them.
It comes with this new prosthetic hand, unveiled last week by developer Touch Bionics. The powered thumb is controlled by signals from the user's arm muscles or - in a first for upper limb prostheses - via a smartphone app: a tap of the screen and the hand automatically arranges itself into a preset grip. The thumb can move into 24 different positions and new, extra-sensitive fingertip electrodes also give improved dexterity. Rebecca Summers, reporter (Image: NASA/NOAA) This fiery infrared satellite image, centred about 290 kilometres off Atlantic City, New Jersey, shows the Gulf Stream as it bends and stretches eastward toward Europe. As the warm ocean-surface water of the Gulf Stream swirls northward from the equator, it collides with cooler coastal currents flowing off the eastern US. Rebecca Summers, contributor Rowan Hooper, news editor. FETTSS: 2010 review: 12 best pictures of the year - Image 1. 17:42 22 December 2010 Our picture editors bring you the most striking images of the year, taken from our Picture of the Day feed.
Image 1 of 13 Alien stubble This may look like a close-up of a hairy chin, but it's actually the surface of Mars. The black stubble-like structures are avalanches of sand and red dust triggered by the sublimation of carbon dioxide from a solid to a gas at the beginning of the Martian summer. The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter back in January. (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) Picture of the day - Image 1. Astronomy Picture of the Day.