Red Aurora over Australia (video)
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 7, 2012
Why would the sky glow red? Aurora. Last week’s solar storms, emanating mostly from active sunspot region 1402, showered particles on the Earth that excited oxygen atoms high in the Earth’s atmosphere. As the excited element’s electrons fell back to their ground state, they emitted a red glow. image credit: Alex Cherney read more wordlessTech
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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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Lawsuit Filed Against City of Leeds over Public Records Access
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 31, 2012
By Justin Hogan A Leeds business recently brought a lawsuit against the City of Leeds, alleging the city is violating Alabama law by not disclosing public records. The suit, filed by Keith Hall Properties Inc. on January 24, claims Leeds is withholding emails that constitute public documents, charging unreasonable fees to search for and copy [...]
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Teams Successfully Fly Over First Round of Competition Hurdles
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 16, 2011
The Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google has taken off! The competition in Santa Rosa, Calif., is challenging, pushing the envelope in aviation technology. As a result, only three of the 13 original registered teams remain in the competition for the NASA funded prize purse of .65 million. They are PhoEnix, Pipistrel-USA and e-Genius. Yesterday [...]
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NASA is Painting the Skies Green Over Santa Rosa
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 9, 2011
NASA and Centennial Challenge partner organization, the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency, or CAFE, Foundation of Santa Rosa, Calif., are encouraging aerospace enthusiasts to attend the Green Flight Centennial Challenge, set to be held at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. Teams from across the United States will test [...]
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Florida raises concern over Wallops expansion
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 27, 2011
WASHINGTON — In a move to protect their turf, Florida space leaders are sending letters in opposition to a proposed expansion at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, warning a move to expand the launch range there could be “duplicative” of work done at Kennedy Space Center. The concern is not without merit. Wallops Flight Facility [...]
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Reports of a Bright Meteor over Southwestern US
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 15, 2011
Just a quick post here, I’m hearing reports that there was a really bright fireball (meteor) across Arizona, Nevada and California. I would really love to see pictures or video. Did anyone capture it? Email me at info@universetoday.com Update: Here’s a picture. Not great. © Fraser for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | No comment [...]
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US says Legionnaire’s cases triple over decade
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 18, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) – U.S. health officials say cases of Legionnaire's disease have tripled in the last decade. But the risk of dying from it has declined because treatment of the disease has improved. www2.wnct.com – National
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For SSEP on ISS – Dramatically More Experiment Capability Using the New Fluids Mixing Enclosure (FME) Mini-Lab Over the MDA Mini-Lab Used for SSEP On Shuttle Missions
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 16, 2011
Communities interested in exploring participation in SSEP Mission 1 to ISS will be excited to learn that the Fluids Mixing Enclosure (FME) mini-lab being used for SSEP on ISS has dramatically more capability than the Materials Dispersion Apparatus (MDA) used for SSEP on STS-134 and STS-135. Based on SSEP operations on STS-134 and STS-135, NCESSE [...]
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OVNIS EN MEXICO UFO OVER MEXICO
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 9, 2011
OVNI BRILLANTE VIDEO GRABADO EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICALI POR EL OBSERVADOR DEL CIELO STALIN VALLE OSUNA Ufos Ovnis Mexico “OVNIS EN MEXICO” “UFO 2011″ UFOS “UFOS REALES” “UFO MEXICO” “UFOS EN MEXICO OVNIS” “OVNIS REALES” “OVNIS EN MEXICO” “OVNIS EN LA TIERRA” “OVNIS 2010″ “OVNI… Paranormal
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