Watching The World Change
Views like this one from Cassini are helping scientists unravel some of the mysteries of Saturn’s complex atmosphere. The turbulent, wavy pattern at the bottom of the image has the appearance of a region that may be spawning vortices, or swirling storms, in the planet’s atmosphere. The bright chaotic region at the top appears to…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Continues Making New Saturn Discoveries NASA’s Cassini spacecraft continues making new and exciting discoveries. New findings include wandering and rubble-pile moons; new and clumpy Saturn rings; splintering storms and a dynamic magnetosphere. “For the last seven months it has been a nonstop, science-packed mission. It has been a whirlwind, and already we…
NASA Finds Life at ‘Extremes’ Hundreds of feet under the Alaska tundra, NASA astrobiologist Dr. Richard Hoover ignores the eerie silence of the icy tunnel around him, even ignores the bones of woolly mammoths and steppe bison jutting here and there from the jagged walls, frozen where they died tens of thousands of years ago”¦…
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CALIPSO and CloudSat: Dancing Around Earth Most of us only pay attention to clouds when trying to plan a picnic or an outside activity. But to scientists, they mean much more. Clouds affect temperatures and air quality across the globe and play a crucial role in the planet’s climate. Clouds are the link between energy…
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First of all lets get things straight, of course people can dream about being abducted and say they were wide awake when they saw it, but its not. Actual alien abductions usually occur at night so people could be sleeping or not. Another thing is if people were abducted I would think that the Greys…
‘Pharaoh’s curse’ punished two families that owned a once stolen amulet A group of Egyptian scientists made more than a thousand pictures of the pharaoh’s mummy A South African has decided to return to Egypt an amulet stolen in Tutankhamun’s tomb to get rid of “pharaoh’s curse”. In a letter to the Egyptian Minister…
The future of male pregnancy is drawing near Taiwanese American Lee Mingwei has already become first pregnant man in history There is a very peculiar phenomenon in modern medicine, known as Couvade Syndrome. This ailment can occur only with men, when they suffer from signs and symptoms of their expectant partners. The word “couvade” comes…
Minor nationality of Russia demands the return of “Princess of Ukok” About five thousand residents of Altai Republic demand the return of the so-called “princess of Ukok” mummy which is now kept in Novosibirsk back to the republic. Written appeal with such request was sent by the residents addressing head of the republic Mikhail Lapshin,…
SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit’s Intelligence Increasing – sol 394-402, February 24, 2005 Spirit is getting new software for increased brainpower, but the rover is not using it quite yet. Sol-by-sol summaries: On sol 394, Spirit drove to a safe spot for good communications with Earth during upload of new software. The rover team successfully loaded all…
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