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NASA loan program
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The U.S. space agency has announced the start of a new artefact loan program for museums, planetariums and other organisations. Read more
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GlobColour project
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The Earths oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere annually. The colour of oceanic seawat...
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ESA astronaut selection programme
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Future missions to the moon could be a case of one small step for woman, one giant leap for womankind.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that it has been inundated with applications from women hoping to be Britain's first official astronaut after announcing its first astronaut selectio...
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Kangaroo Island
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Huaynaputina volcano
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Huaynaputina (Quechua: "New Volcano") is a stratovolcano located in a volcanic upland in southern Peru, 4850 m. The volcano does not have a vividly identifiable volcanic profile. On February 19, 1600 it exploded catastrophically (Volcanic Explosivity Index or VEI 6), in the largest...
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Energy from space
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...it is time we gave serious consideration to energy from space. It is an old idea and most of the information below is widely available from NASA research. It was initiated after the oil embargo of the mid-1970s when NASA, working with the DOE, began to study alternative energy sources to lessen dep...
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Electric solar wind sail
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The electric solar wind sail was invented a couple of years ago by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and could soon be used on a test mission Read more The electric solar wind sail developed by Dr. Pekka Janh...
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Typhoon Neoguri
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Typhoon Neoguri is forecast to make landfall in China in about 24 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 80% in about 12 hours Qionghai (19.2 N, 110.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability fo...
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Ocean wind patterns
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Several new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe, based on data from NASA's QuikScat satellite, are benefiting a wide range of users, from those who sail the seas to those responsible for managing their precious resources. Researchers compiled seven years of QuikScat data to create a ne...
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Ion engine
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Ion engine enters space race Engineer Neil Wallace peers into a huge vacuum chamber designed to replicate - as far as possible - the conditions of space. Cryogenic pumps can be heard in the background, whistling away like tiny steam engines. Using helium gas as a coolant, they can bring the temperatu...
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Iceland Underwater Volcano
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Scientists have discovered a large volcano off the southwestern coast of Iceland, and they think that it may erupt at any time. The find is significant because scientists had previously thought that volcanoes could not form in that area of the ocean. Such large volcanoes are not located on oceani...
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Atlas Celeste
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An extremely rare star atlas from the 18th century that is among the first to show the planet Uranus is to be auctioned next week. The Atlas Celeste, prepared by the astronomer John Bevis, is one of only 23 known examples surviving today, and is considered to be a better specimen even than the one held by...
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A.D. 536 event
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A "dry fog" that muted the sun's rays in A.D. 536 and plunged half the world into a famine-inducing chill was triggered by the eruption of a supervolcano, a new study says. The cause of the sixth-century global dimming has long been a matter of debate, but a team of international researche...
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A53A iceberg
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Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. A huge fissure was spotted running south to north through the berg on 1 March by C-CORE, the Canadian ice-tracking service, while studyin...
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Massive landslide
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A massive chunk of land appears to have given way spectacularly sometime over the past winter from the south flank of Greenleaf Peak, three miles north of North Bonneville. No one knows for sure when it happened in the remote forest, but hikers documented the aftermath this past week. [url=http://s...
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