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UAS Completes First ATTREX Science Mission
An unmanned aerial system operated by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has just completed its first science flight as part of the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) mission, on Friday, February 14, 2014.
The purpose of this research effort is to use a long-range, high-autonomy UAS to study low concentration, stratospheric water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Though spares high above the surface, the vapors are thought to play a critical role in the development of global warming and climate change.
Yesterday's science flight was conducted with the Global Hawk No. 872, which took off from the Andersen Air Force Base, on the island of Guam, in the Pacific Ocean. This drone was preferred over other because it can fly over very long distances and at high altitudes, all without a human pilot.
This was the first ATTREX science flight the NASA Global Hawk carried out this year. Its objective was to analyze cirrus clouds in the cold tropopause regions around Guam. This information will then be integrated with data already available in various climate models.
Assassin's Creed: Arena Board Game Will Be Out This Month
Ubisoft has announced that an Assassin’s Creed inspired board game will come out by the end of the month, challenging 2 to 4 players to compete against each other in various scenarios.
The game is titled Assassin’s Creed: Arena, and has been developed by Cryptozoic Entertainment, a premier board game developer and publisher with several notable franchise adaptations under its belt.
Assassin’s Creed: Arena will join the likes of Ender’s Game Battle School, The Walking Dead Board Game, Hawken: The Real-Time Card Game, Capcom Street Fighter Deck-Building Game and many others, in delivering a popular fantasy universe to the tabletop gaming world.
The upcoming production is a strategy game set in Constantinople, allowing players to take on the role of Templars from Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and then sneakily make their way across the city’s rooftops, avoiding guards and securing kills.
The Ubisoft blog post warns that the game is designed for players over 15 years old, on account of its mature content and complex rules, and also offers detailed information regarding turn sequence and player interactions.
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