Follow ScienceBlips on Twitter
Earth
|
Add as Favorite |
| What's Hot: |
space.com - 5 hours ago
—
space.com —
Super Earths are named for their size, but
these planets - which range from about 2 to...
10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to the 'Fermi Paradox': Why haven't we been ...
(more)
Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life
Comments
vote down
The Geology News Blog
found this 5 hours agofound this
spitzer.caltech.edu - 15 hours ago
—
spitzer.caltech.edu —
Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way
More than 800,000 frames from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...
were stitched together to create this infrared portrait of dust and stars radiating in the inner Milky Way. As inhabitants of a flat galactic ...
(more)
Image ssc2008-11a
|
Earth Latest Blog Posts
Mars Meteorite Debate Continues
3 hours ago at Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
|
spacefellowship.com - 17 hours ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
Dry, windy weather sent clouds of dust across
southeastern Australia on November 29, 2009. The tan dust...
reduced visibility and prompted the New South Wales Government to issue health warnings asking people to stay inside as much as possible. Blowing dust can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat ...
(more)
Dust over Southeast Australia Seen from Space
boston.com - 36 hours ago
—
boston.com —
Once more, we enter the month of December
and the traditional western Holiday Season, and once again,...
I'd like to present a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar for 2009. Keep checking this page, because every day, for the next 25 days, a ...
(more)
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009
foxnews.com - 2 days ago
—
foxnews.com —
Monday, November 30, 2009 NASA scientists have produced
the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists...
on Mars. It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost ...
(more)
Fossilized Bacteria May Point to Life on Mars
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com - 19 hours ago
—
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com —
Blue Origin Click for video: New
Shepard flies in Blue Origin video from 2006, used...
with permission. Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' usually secretive Blue Origin rocket venture raised the curtain ...
(more)
Suborbital science goes public
eurekalert.org - 35 hours ago
—
eurekalert.org —
Scientists in Ecology Letters reveal the evolutionary step
which allowed flowering plants to become the most abundant...
and ecologically successful group of plants on Earth.
(more)
How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
physorg.com - 36 hours ago
—
physorg.com —
Super Earths are named for their size, but
these planets - which range from about 2 to...
10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to the Fermi Paradox`: Why haven`t we been ...
(more)
Superior Super Earths
spacefellowship.com - 40 hours ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of
part of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, highlights...
a perfect dust laboratory in the sky. On Earth, we tend to find dust nothing more than a nuisance that blankets our furniture and causes us to sneeze. Cosmic dust can also be a hindrance to ...
(more)
Blushing dusty nebula
spacetelescope.org - 37 hours ago
—
spacetelescope.org —
A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of
part of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, highlights...
a perfect dust laboratory in the sky.
(more)
Photo Release: Blushing dusty nebula
spacefellowship.com - 43 hours ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
The Soyuz TMA-15 reentry module landed safely in
Kazakhstan at 13.15 local time (08.15 CET), bringing ESA...
astronaut Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk back to Earth. The landing concluded the six-month OasISS mission, ESA’s second ...
(more)
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne safely back on Earth
spacefellowship.com - 44 hours ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
Heat shields are an important part of any
space vehicle that re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The next...
generation of heat shields to protect astronauts and payloads on their re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere may use superconducting magnets to deflect the plasma that forms in ...
(more)
Next Generation Magnetic Heat Shields
usaweekend.com - 38 hours ago
—
usaweekend.com —
Issue Date: November 29, 2009 End of the
world! What are the chances, really? Although Earth is...
obliterated (cinematically) by disasters courtesy of a Mayan prophecy in the new film 2012, the more likely scenario is that we'll get wiped out by a ...
(more)
The end of the world? | USA WEEKEND Magazine
physorg.com - 36 hours ago
—
physorg.com —
The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide
(CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data...
taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the ...
(more)
Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds
spacefellowship.com - 2 days ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite named GOES-14, is
being placed in on-orbit storage this month to await...
its call to duty. Since it was launched, scientists and engineers on the ground have been monitoring the instruments on GOES-14, formerly known as GOES-O, and it is ...
(more)
GOES-14 Moving into On-Orbit Storage Around the Earth
spacefellowship.com - 2 days ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the...
sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. A paper ...
(more)
Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained
spacefellowship.com - 2 days ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
The Lesser Antilles island chain separates the Atlantic
Ocean from the Caribbean Sea. Part of that island...
chain consists of the Virgin Islands, some governed by the United States, and some by the United Kingdom. Of the British Virgin Islands, the largest is Tortola, roughly 5 kilometers (3 ...
(more)
British Virgin Islands Seen from Space
physorg.com - 2 days ago
—
physorg.com —
(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace
giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that...
will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot plasma formed during re-entry of ...
(more)
Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed
gps.caltech.edu - 2 days ago
—
gps.caltech.edu —
The Cassini spacecraft arrived to Saturn's system in
June 2004. Since then Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging...
revealed a vast set of surface features interpreted to be lakes. The lakes appear in various states of filling with liquid hydrocarbons, ...
(more)
Oded Aharonson's Home Page: Titan's Lakes
spacefellowship.com - 3 days ago
—
spacefellowship.com —
This image features the International Space Station photographed
soon after the space shuttle Atlantis and the station...
began their post-undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 3:53 a.m. (CST) on Nov. 25, 2009.This scene shows parts of Africa in the ...
(more)
Picture of the Day – ISS Backdropped by Earth
