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Combining refurbished machinery and modern day technology, NASA was able to take a restore photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. This time with better resolution.
“The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., is taking analog data from original recorders used to […]
San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium, the new $20 million dollar facility that’s a part of the recently reopened California Academy of Sciences, is a technological marvel.
The Morrison Planetarium allows “astronomers not only to show traditional star charts, but to guide visitors through an immersive fly-through of our universe – realistically rendered in real-time. ”
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According to Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist currently working at CSIRO in Australia, the world is not in an oil crisis. In fact, we have enough to last us at least the next thirty years. Same goes for coal and natural gas. This is despite recent increases in oil use throughout the world. Apparently, […]
According to research released today, we haven’t done enough to reduce our carbon emissions. In fact, not only have we not done enough, but greenhouse gas emissions have actually surpassed scientists’ worst-case-scenarios, despite the measures put in place by policymakers worldwide. Read more…
Teams of scientists involved around the world celebrated with champagne as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider — a $9 […]
I think it’s a safe statement to say that the average person knows very little about our planet. Well, just in case, here are some facts for you about the Earth. Put your thinking caps on:
The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball.
The Earth is an oblate spheroid
The Earth isn’t an oblate spheroid.
OK, […]
Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet!
Satellite measurements from space confirm that global warming is making an impact and turning ice into water. As glaciers begin to melt, the question everyone […]
Here is a fact that is generally agreed on by scientists: the sun is constantly growing and expanding. “Hey great, more beach days,” you may think. Well in the future (we’re talking several billions of years, but still) this growth could cause the sun to obliterate the earth, making it an uninhabitable, hot, brown mass […]
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Posted By: rebecca | Sep 8th
A new map based on early results from the spacecraft formerly known as GLAST is revealing the probe’s potential for unraveling some of the most perplexing problems in astrophysics.
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope was today officially dubbed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. The probe was launched […]
Venus, with its boiling-hot surface, doesn’t seem a likely place to find ET. But a new paper argues not only that Venusian clouds could harbor microbial life, but also that the life there could potentially hitch a ride aboard the solar wind to Earth. The possibility for microbial life on Venusian clouds has been suggested […]
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Posted By: ashley | Aug 11th