|
|
Flagstaff Station
(Preview)
The US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station Celebrates it`s First Half Century.
The U.S. Naval Observatory performs an essential scientific role for the United States, the Navy, and the US Department of Defence. Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, M...
|
Blobrana
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cheyenne Mountain
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
The military is relegating its newly renovated airspace and missile defence complex in Cheyenne Mountain to standby status - clouding the future of...
|
Blobrana
|
17
|
|
|
|
|
|
Protozoans
(Preview)
Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of 220-million-year-old life trapped in tiny drops of ancient amber.
The fossilised plant resin preserved bacteria, fungi, algae, and microscopic animals known as protozoans some 220 million years ago—the era when the very first dinosaurs began to...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lake Vida
(Preview)
Life abounds in Antarctic lake sealed under ice It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at -13 °C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth - yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life. [url=http://www.nature.co...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fauld Crater
(Preview)
On the 27th of November, 1944, 4,000 tonnes of bombs stored at an underground ammunition depot in a former gypsum mine at Fauld, Staffordshire, were detonated. The blast destroyed two farms and destroyed a large part of the nearby village of Hanbury and 70 men and women lost their lives. The blast was...
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Delta II rocket
(Preview)
On this date in 1990, the Delta II rocket made its maiden flight. Delta II is a space launch system originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II is part of the Delta rocket family and has been in service since 1989. Delta II vehicles include the retired Delta 6000, the active Delta 7000,...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Odyssey Moon Ltd
(Preview)
Isle of Man space company teams up for Lunar X-Prize A Manx space company has teamed up with another in Israel in an attempt to win an international Moon explorer prize. Odyssey Moon Ltd has linked up with SpaceIL to compete in a competition with a prize of $30m (£18.5m). The Google-sponsored Lunar X-P...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Columbia Basin College planetarium
(Preview)
Astronauts to attend CBC planetarium opening Tri-City residents not only will see stars in the sky, but also stars of the United States space program during the Dec. 5 opening of the new planetarium at Columbia Basin College in Pasco. Astronauts Charlie Duke and Story Musgrave will be on hand for the...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Taupo volcano
(Preview)
According to GNS, the Taupo volcano first began erupting about 300,000 years ago and it is a given that it will do so again one day. A repeat eruption of the size of either the Oruanui or Taupo eruptions would "devastate most of the North Island", according to GNS. Taupo is part of a belt of act...
|
Blobrana
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Mexico spaceport
(Preview)
Ground has been broken on the construction site of Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. Those behind the project say that it will help provide a new chapter in space exploration. When finished in 18 months' time, the facility will house Virgin Galactic's spac...
|
Blobrana
|
9
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mount Zijin Observatory
(Preview)
[url=http://www.pmo.ac.cn/English/english1.htm]Mount
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hudson Flood
(
1 2 3
)
(Preview)
13,350 years ago the glacial Lake Iroquois broke out from behind the Adirondack Mountains and the northern ice sheet.
It was three times the size of modern Lake Ontario.
As the natural ice dam collapsed, floodwaters rushed down the Hudson River Valley; past modern Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Sta...
|
Blobrana
|
22
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lake Peigneur
(Preview)
Lake Peigneur is located in the U.S. State of Louisiana 1.9 km north of Delcambre and 14.6 km west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. The lake was a 3 m deep freshwater lake popular with sportsmen until an unusual man-made disaster on November 20, 1980, changed the structure of t...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mount Ruapehu
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
A small eruption on Mount Ruapehu in central North Island, New Zealand last Wednesday night, 4th October, may have sent a water plume about 200 meters into the air, and created waves about six meters high in the volcanic lake.
"It would have been a geyser-type eruption. It would have domed up w...
|
Blobrana
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
|
Astrobiology consortium
(Preview)
Astrobiology consortium supported for additional five years With the help of a new grant from NASA, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are guiding the search for signs of life on distant planets - while keeping their feet firmly planted on Earth. The Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Co...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
