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Posted in The Solar System on Nov 24th, 2008
Fox ran a neat story about a meteor strike in Canada. They ran a neat pic with it. However, the real thing is much more exciting to watch:
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Posted in The Solar System on Nov 4th, 2008
Scientists have more or less discovered something that is kind of new. Sorta.
During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn’t believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Nov 3rd, 2008
Just in time to give everyone a relief from the elections, the Taurids apparently will be making a show starting Wednesday. My own experience with the Taurids is that this is the one to watch. Although the Perseids get more PR, the Taurids can be a lot more spectacular to watch. They don’t have quite [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Oct 10th, 2008
NASA just had a wildly successful flyby of Mercury by the Messenger spacecraft. Here are some of my favorite pics from it:
Now, let’s do that on Titan!
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Posted in Conspiracy Theories, The Solar System on Sep 11th, 2008
Much has been made about “faces” on celestial bodies. There’s the face on Mars that led to all kinds of conspiracy theories:
Then of course, there is always the Man in The Moon:
Now, we got the Face on Steins:
As Steins turns to leave, I think a very obvious, sad, face appears.
Very cool.
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Posted in The Solar System on May 26th, 2008
This is very cool:
The picture is of Phoenix landing on Mars and was taken by the Mars Orbiter. Hard to imagine that there is so much stuff flying around and on Mars that they can now take pictures of each other.
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Posted in The Solar System on May 25th, 2008
I’m watching the streaming broadcast of Mission Control handling the Phoenix landing on Mars. This is very cool!
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Posted in Earth, Global Warming, The Solar System, The Universe on Apr 15th, 2008
A team of Japanese astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton, along with NASA and Japanese X-ray satellites, has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago.
The article then goes on to do what articles, and most usually scientists, do in general. They dig deeper and deeper into the why’s, what’s, [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Mar 5th, 2008
This is just an awesome pic:
That’s us and the Moon as viewed from Mars. Very cool!
H/T Universe Today
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Posted in Earth, Global Warming, The Solar System on Jan 6th, 2008
Watch out peeps, things might get cooler before it gets hotter. According to Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, Merited Scientist of Russia and fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and a staff researcher of the Oceanology Institute, the Earth is entering a cyclical cooling phase. Researchers are already saying 2008 could be cooler than normal due to the [...]