Opportunity Finds Powerful Evidence for Ancient Liquid Water on Mars
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 5, 2012
by Dr. Ken Kremer NASA’s long lived Opportunity rover has discovered the most scientifically compelling evidence yet for the flow of liquid water on ancient Mars. The startling revelation comes in the form of a bright vein of the mineral gypsum located at the foothills of an enormous crater named Endeavour, where the intrepid robot [...]
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Some Nearby Young Stars May Be Much Older Than Previously Thought Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 – 15:37 in Astronomy & Space Low in the south in the summer sky shines the constellation Scorpius and the bright, red super giant star Antares. Many of the brightest stars in Scorpius, and hundreds of its fainter stars, [...]
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NASA tries to settle fight over its artifacts
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON — Hoping to settle a feud inside the NASA family, NASA Chief Charlie Bolden met Monday with several Apollo astronauts upset with how the agency recently has blocked them from selling space artifacts from their personal collections. While no final agreement was reached, NASA officials said talks were moving in the right direction. “These [...]
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New Study Reveals Little Ice Age Triggered By Volcanism
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 1, 2012
Gifford Miller collects vegetation samples on Baffin Island. (Photo courtesy University of Colorado Boulder.) In a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder with co-authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other organizations, researchers may have possibly found evidence the “Little Ice Age” may have had ties to an unusual era [...]
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Red Huber signing shuttle calendars on Janaury 19
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 31, 2012
This photo of space shuttle Discovery from March 11, 2009 is part of the 2012 space shuttle calendar. (Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel) Orlando Sentinel senior staff photographer Red Huber will be signing copies of his 2012 Space Shuttle calendar on Thursday, January 19. Huber will be in the main lobby of the Sentinel at 633 [...]
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Europe’s Ariane 5 to launch two broadcast satellites Friday
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 24, 2012
Europe’s heavy-lift rocket heads to its launch pad. (Arianespace)A mighty European rocket will carry aloft two high definition broadcast satellites on Friday, providing direct to home television for Europe and Japan.The European ASTRA 1N and Japan’s BSAT 3C/JCSAT 110R satellites will be carried into earth orbit by the mighty Ariane 5.The 165-foot white rocket was [...]
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Key Step in Evolution Replicated by Scientists – With Yeast
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 23, 2012
Budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells. Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the great puzzles in science has been the evolution of single-celled organisms into the incredibly wide variety of flora and fauna that we see today. How did Earth make the transition from an initially lifeless ball of rock to one populated only by single-celled organisms [...]
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Poet’s Corner
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 22, 2012
Submitted by David Kaplan CANIS MAJOR The great Overdog, That heavenly beast With a star in one eye, Gives a leap in the east. He dances upright All the way to the west, And never once drops On his forefeet to rest. I’m a poor underdog, But tonight I will bark With the great Overdog [...]
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Clear Satellite View of Earth’s Newest Island
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 17, 2012
Satellite view from the Advanced Land Imager on the Earth Observer 1, showing a brand new volcanic island in the Red Sea. Credit: NASA Want to get away from it all? Here’s the newest deserted island on Earth. In late December, we reported on a volcanic eruption in the Red Sea that appeared to have [...]
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Scientists Still Searching for the Beagle 2 Crash Site on Mars
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 13, 2012
An image from the HiRISE camera of the Isidis basin region where the Beagle 2 lander was supposed to touch down. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Since its disappearance in December 2003, scientists and citizen scientists alike have continued the search for Europe’s Beagle 2 lander which likely crashed on Mars. Its disappearance is a mystery [...]
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