Flights rerouted as enormoussolar tempesslam Earth
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 21, 2012
Radiation storm are not damaging to humans, on soil at least, according to the US room agency. They can, however, have an effect on satellite operation and small wave radio. Solar radiation from a huge sun storm – the main in nearly a decade – collide with the Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday, prompt an airline [...]
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Miss Earth 2011
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 6, 2011
Newly crowned Miss Earth 2011 Olga Alva of Ecuador (second from right) along with her court – (from left) Miss Venezuela Caroline Medina, Miss Earth-Fire; Miss Philippines Athena Mae Imperial, Miss Earth-Water; and Miss Brazil Drielly Bennettone, Miss Earth-Air – after ceremonies at the UP Theater Saturday night in Philippines. wordlessTech
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Venerable Voyager 2 Spacecraft Gets a Tune-up 14 billion Kilometers From Earth
Posted by brandoniswrite on November 17, 2011
Artist's concept of NASA's Voyager spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Every mechanic loves to tinker with a machine to give it optimum operating efficiency. But this latest engineering feat involving the Voyager 2 spacecraft wins the prize for longest distance tune-up. Akin to servicing an old car to increase gas mileage, engineers at JPL sent commands [...]
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NASA science satellite to plunge back to earth Friday
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 6, 2011
(ATLANTA, Ga.) — A NASA science satellite will plunge back to earth on Friday raining over twenty pieces of debris over an unknown region of our planet. NASA said on Thursday the satellite will not fall toward North America due to it’s orbital track. The satellite known as UARS for Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is [...]
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Dramatic Videos of Station Undocking, Gorgeous Earth Descent and Soyuz Touchdown by Russian American Trio
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 16, 2011
Video Caption: Soyuz Trio Lands in Kazakhstan – The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Ron Garan and his fellow Expedition 28 flight engineers returned safely to Earth with a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. Garan and cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko, and Alexander Samokutyaev had been on the International Space Station since April 6. Their journey [...]
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Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 19, 2011
For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting. “The movie sent chills down my spine,” says Craig DeForest of [...]
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Earth may have had two moons
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 6, 2011
This artist’s rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the Moon and a companion moon, four percent of the lunar mass, about four billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon, until it smacked into its big sister, some astronomers now theorise. Credit: M. Jutzi and E. Asphaug, Nature. . . read more [...]
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What’s causing the poles to warm faster than the rest of Earth?
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 28, 2010
The poles are warming faster than other parts of the Earth – a fact that has been widely accepted for years. But what is causing the accelerated warming? Research aimed at answering that question has been done before, but a recent study by Patrick Taylor, a scientist at NASA‘s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., [...]
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Student Questions Needed: Earth Day Video Chat
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 20, 2010
To celebrate Earth Day 2011, the Education Office at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is hosting a live Web video chat where your students can ask a NASA/JPL scientist questions emailed in advance. Questions should be on the topic of Earth science. Our chat is best suited for students and afterschool groups in [...]
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Here’s Looking @ Earth… Tuscaloosa Tornado (ImageryNASA)
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 11, 2010
[SatNews] Deadly tornadoes raked across Alabama on April 27, 2011, killing as many as 210 people as of April 29. Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News
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