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Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
April 15, 2021 — Venus images are nothing new, but a solar probe surprised the researchers by seeing through the planet’s clouds. NRL’s Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) took a stunning image of Earth’s celestial neighbor Venus last year that left researchers searching for answers... MORE

NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
April 14, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multi-day endurance flight capability, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland... MORE

IPOWER: Improving your energy-informed decisions when it matters most
March 23, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers have developed IPOWER, a software application that simulates energy use, storage, harvesting, and sharing in deployed Army and Marine Corps units to improve energy-informed decision-making... MORE

NRL Researchers Search for Critical Ocean Sciences Data with Lidar
March 19, 2021 — Quantifying the oceanic whitecaps and subsurface bubbles is important to the Navy’s oceanographic models to characterize the long-term evolution of the ocean environment... MORE

From Sea to Shining Sea: Combating the Pandemic One Mile at a Time
March 16, 2021 — When COVID-19 began to spread more than a year ago, few people could have imagined the drastic, far-reaching changes in our lives... MORE

Study Finds Localized Water Release in Upper Mesosphere Enables Polar Mesospheric Cloud Formation
March 15, 2021 — The rocket launch is part of a NASA and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory study showing water vapor, a common launch byproduct of space traffic, can actively cool the mesosphere and induce the formation of mesospheric clouds... MORE

NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
March 2, 2021 — In 2007, a team of scientists found the first fast radio burst, then described as Lorimer Bursts, after combing through archived data from the Parkes Observatory, in New South Wales, Australia. This extremely energetic burst originated in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away, and was at that time thought of as a one-off event... MORE

Astrophysicist’s 2004 Theory Confirmed: Why the Sun’s Composition Varies
March 2, 2021 — About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun’s tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down... MORE