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  • ISRO scientists meet PM; present first imageries of Cartosat-1

    BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair and a team of senior scientists have presented the first imageries from the recently launched CARTOSAT-1 satellite to the Prime Minister today.
     
    Nair made a presentation to the PM on the PSLV C6/ CARTOSAT-1/ HAMSAT mission operations, performance of launch vehicle PSLV, Cartosat-1 and Hamsat. PM was shown the first pictures received from the satellite over Punjab and Gujarat, with 2.5 metre resolution stereoscopic camera and the digital terrain model processed from the satellite pictures over Gujarat.

    Prime Minister while evincing keen interest in the details depicted in the imagery, congratulated ISRO scientists for their outstanding achievement.
  • CNN show to address tec discoveries and implications

    CNN show to address tec discoveries and implications

    MUMBAI: International news network CNN has announced the launch of Spark, a monthly technology show that focuses on the discovery, application and implication of technology in the global world of commerce.

    The show will debut on 22 August 6:00 pm with a repeat on 28 August at 4:00 pm.
     
    Hosted by CNN’s technology expert Kristie Lu Stout, Spark provides an in-depth look at how technologies and innovations are affecting the way people live and do business. Stout is an experienced journalist in reporting and analysing high-tech innovation and business trends in the world technology.

    The show offers latest technology stories from across Asia, Europe and America, in addition to interviews with entrepreneurs, scientists and industry leaders, stated an official release.

    The half-hour show also features a regular segment Bright Sparks showcasing the rising stars of the world of technology, plus News Flashes on the latest scientific breakthroughs and high-tec gadgets, adds the release.

    For the month of August, CNN’s sailing show MainSail has its host Liz George visiting Cork in South West Ireland, home of the annual Cork Week regatta. The half-hour program hears from the international sailing fraternity as well as the smaller boat owners at this regular feature in the yachting calendar.

    The show will air on 15 August at 6:00 pm, 18 August at 7:00 pm and on 29 August at 6:00 pm.

     
          

  • Scientists reconstruct Mummy face believed to be Nefertiti

    BOSTON: Discovery has released the digital facial reconstruction image of the mummy believed to be Nefertiti.


    It was in June that indiantelevision.com reported Discovery’s announcement that Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher’s had perhaps discovered and identified the mummy believed to be that of ancient Egypt’s stunningly beautiful Queen Nefertiti.


    The Queen was the Egyptian co-regent of Pharaoh Akhenaten during the late XVIIth dynasty some 3,000 years ago. Discovery funded Fletcher’s expedition, which blended archaeology and state-of-the-art digital technology to locate and identify Nefertiti as part of the network’s new initiative, Discovery Channel Quest. The Nefertiti special Nefertiti Resurrected will air in September around the world.
    An official release informs that Discovery and London-based production company Atlantic Productions assembled a team of experts to create the facial reconstruction of the mummy. The experts used digital x-rays that were taken by the expedition team in February 2003 in royal tomb KV 35 in the Valley of the Kings.


    Experts included Dr. Damian Schofield, a forensic animation expert from the University of Nottingham; Dr. Martin Evison, a forensic anthropologist from Sheffield University; and a facial animator specialist from Aims Solution, Ltd. The scientists were not informed of the mummy’s possible identity.
    The Nottingham-Sheffield team have worked on many other forensic visualisation projects, including modelling the injuries and rebuilding the faces of murder victims. Through their joint work they have developed a number of new techniques for generating more representative facial reconstructions using advanced computer graphics technology.
    Dr. Schofield said: “The facial reconstruction team worked blind, with no knowledge as to who our mummy might be, throughout the project to ensure objectivity. When told who the mummy might be, we compared our reconstruction to the known images of Nefertiti and saw remarkable similarities.”
    Dr. Evison added: “Facial reconstruction from the skull is too imprecise to offer unequivocal proof of identity. However the resemblance of our reconstruction to the historic portraits of Nefertiti is quite striking and would have been unavoidable.”

    Also Read:
    ‘Nefertiti Resurrected’ on Discovery 7 September

    Discovery uncovers possible Nefertiti Mummy