Sepember 11, 2008
|
|
Monitoring & Testing Newsletter Sepember 11, 2008 |
|---|
  |
|---|
| This Week´s Featured News Stories |
|---|
 |
First beam in the LHC - accelerating science
The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 Wednesday morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. “It’s a fantastic moment,” said LHC project leader Lyn Evans, “we can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe.” Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual ... |
||||
 |
Major European programme for the environment under the spotlight
On 16 and 17 September, in the context of France`s presidency of the EU, Lille will play host to `Forum GMES 2008` at the Grand Palais. The GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme has been set up to provide services relating to the environment, climate change, resource management, security and global issues. These services draw on data - mainly Earth observation data - from satellites and in-situ measurements, combined with socio-economic data, processed in such a way as to readily generate usable information for all citizens in Europe on a sustained basis. GMES ... |
||||
| |||||
|
|||||
| Advertise in this Newsletter For information on advertising in this newsletter, contact us or call USA 1-888-244-5029 / Europe +34 91 395 2969. |
