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Fire conditions around JPL have continued to improve throughout the day, and the Lab is no longer threatened by the Station Fire. However, there has been heavy smoke in the area. To ensure acceptable air quality for the safety of employees, the Laboratory will be closed on Monday except for mission-...
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The Katmai National Park and Preserve is located in mainland Alaska where the Alaska Peninsula first begins to reach south-westward into the Bering Sea. Very little was known about this area, at least to European people, as recently as a hundred years ago, but on June 6, 1912, the region entered the r...
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Mexico Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:30:39 (UTC) on Friday, August 11, 2006, in the Guerrero region, 75 km WNW of Arcelia, at a depth of 60.1 km.
Location 18.486°N, 100.930°W
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Colin Pillinger
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Colin Pillinger, the man who led the ill-fated Beagle mission to mars, has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Colin Pillinger, son of a Bristol utility worker, has already begun work on the next mars explorer, Beagal Evolution.
He gained his PhD from the Univer...
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China is likely to build its fourth satellite launch centre in the southern island province of Hainan.
The provincial government is working to persuade the central government to approve the massive project, which is expected to be located in Wenchang, in the northeast of the island.
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Cyclone Nargis
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As many as ten thousand people could have died in the catastrophic storm which ripped across Burma on Saturday, and the number is likely to rise as aid workers pick their way through rubble, floods and broken roads to the stricken areas of the Irrawaddy Delta. [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...
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Eemian
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Scientists probe Earth's last warm phase Scientists now have a fuller picture of what happened at the poles during the last warm phase on Earth. Known as the Eemian, this time period extended from roughly 129,000 years ago to about 116,000 years before present. The poles were known to have been a few d...
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Axum obelisk
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Plundered in the middle of Italy's 1933-1941 occupation, the 160-tonne obelisk was raised in Rome by Benito Mussolini as a symbol of the fascist victory against Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's 1,700 year-old obelisk, returned to the country 14 months ago, will be re-erected after the rainy season that...
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Chlorophyll
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Chlorophyll in ancient bacteria: biofuel source? Scientists have discovered a new type of chlorophyll in ancient Australian bacteria that could lead to new sources of bio-energy. Over the past 60 years, scientists have known of four types of chlorophyll used by plants to harvest light and conver...
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Paul Davies
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Growing up, we all ponder the deep questions of existence. How did the universe begin? Is there some meaning or purpose behind it all? Where do human beings fit in? As we age, though, we become more concerned with mortgage rates and day care, dental insurance and the stock market and only rarely, if eve...
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La Brea Tar Pits
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Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation's second-largest city. Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of sabre-toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses, gro...
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 23:50:06 (UTC) on Monday, April 17, 2006 , in the Santa Cruz Islands region.
Location 12.634°S, 165.971°E
It occurred at a Depth of 70.6 km , 210 km South of Lata, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands.
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Mount Haast
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A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 08:32:31 (UTC) on Wednesday, January 4, 2006, in the Gulf of California, 89 km NNE from Santa Rosalía, at a depth of 10 km.
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Dendera zodiac
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The Zodiac of Dendera Spoiler Spoiler
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