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Kola Superdeep Borehole
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the result of a scientific drilling project of the former USSR. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. Drilling began on 24 May 1970 on the Kola Peninsula, using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig. Rea...
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Russia to evacuate Arctic station over melting ice A Russian drifting Arctic research station is to be evacuated because the ice field around it is melting, the environment ministry in Moscow reports. The ministry has ordered an evacuation plan to be drawn up within three days for North Pole 40 and i...
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Valdivia Quake
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The World's strongest recorded Earthquake
At 3.40pm on 22 May 1960 Valdivia was hit by the strongest recorded earthquake in the world. The Earthquake measured 9.5 on the Richter Scale. Most of the buildings in the city were destroyed by the earth's movements or by the devastating tsunamis that...
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A scientist from Boston University, Farouk El-Baz, while studying alluvial deposits in Kuwait and satellite photos of the Arabian peninsula spotted the unmistakable signs of a dry fossil river channel cutting across the desert.
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Multiple Mirror Telescope
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University of Arizona astronomers had been preparing for days for this mission to verify the recent apparent discovery of water on the surface of Pluto's only known moon. Atop Mount Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains on April 3, 1987, astronomer George Rieke, above, went through a final instrumen...
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ASTRON creates new nature reserve in Drenthe Astronomy can produce fascinating and exciting results. But a completely new nature reserve resulting from the building of a telescope is something no one has thought of yet. However, the LOFAR project made this possible. This new sensor network, init...
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Devonian Period
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In the middle of the Devonian Period some 385 million years ago, the Wissahickon Schist was the heart of a huge mountain chain that was something like the Pacific Northwest of today. Volcanoes formed here and there. The land was subjected to earthquakes and eruptions from time to time. To the west was...
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Mariana Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 16:41:33 (UTC) on Monday, November 28, 2005, in the Mariana Islands Region, 125 km East of Farallon de Pajaros.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 46.2 km.
Location 20.358°N, 146.058°E
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently under construction on Cerro Toco in Chile.
And AMEC, the international project management and engineering company, is near completion of one of the world’s most sophisticated and sensitive telescopes. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (A...
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:22:23 (UTC) on Sunday, November 27, 2005, in Southern Iran, 60 km SouthWest of Bandar-e Abbas, and at a Depth of 35 km.
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Carmona
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The history of Carmona begins at one of the oldest urban sites in Europe, with nearly five thousand years of continuous occupation on a plateau rising above the Vega (plain) of the River Carbones in Andalusia, Spain. The city of Carmona lies thirty kilometres from Seville on the highest elevation of...
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Abu Dhabi Spaceport
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Former Spaceport America chief appointed to lead vision and planning for Virgin Galactic space flights from Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic LLC ("Virgin Galactic"), part of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, and Aabar Investments PJS ("Aabar") today announced that they ha...
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EME bounce
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A Laser beam was bounced off the moon's surface successfully on May 9, 1962, by Scientists from MIT. A ruby optical maser radiating pulses of approximately 50 joules energy, 0.5 msec. duration, at 6943 A was used as the source. The transmitting optical system included a Cassegrain telescope of 12-i...
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Shishapangma
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Shishapangma, also called Gosainthn, is the fourteenth-highest mountain in the world and, at 8,013 m, the lowest of the eight-thousanders. Shishapangma is located in south-central Tibet, five kilometres from the border with Nepal. Shishapangma was first climbed via the Northern Route on 2 May...
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Toba Supervolcano
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This image of Toba Caldera was captured by NASA’s Terra satellite on January 28, 2006. Expand (332kb, 1024 x 768) Credit NASA Location: 98°49'24" 2°34'54" [url=http://www.activeboard.c...
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