Universe Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Raw images are already being returned from Cassini's Nov. 21 "E-8" or eighth flyby of the tiger-striped moon Enceladus. Visible in this raw image are several plumes from fissures in the south polar region of the moon. These fissures spew jets of water vapor and other particles hundreds of kilometers from the surface. [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
YERINGTON, Nev. -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ominous sign on a neighboring fence: "Danger: Uranium Mine." For almost a decade, people who...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ominous sign on a neighboring fence: "Danger: Uranium Mine." For almost a decade, people who make their homes...
Nasa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A thick plume of brownish smoke billowed from the Western Australia coast and over the Great Australian Bight on November 19, 2009.
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Climate change has increased the unpredictability of weather patterns, and as residents of the Western U.S. know, that means a jump in the number of forest fires. In the past year alone, 76,000 individual fires have consumed 5.8 million acres, according to the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center. We might not be able to stop fires from starting, but researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Science Mag (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
When a spent rocket booster slammed into the frigid, inky shadow of a lunar crater last month, it sent up a slightly damp plume of dust, scientists with NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission reported last week. Author: Richard A. Kerr
thinking cities... (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ah! A poet - perennial perpetrator of pleasantries! Picture a plume pen, possessed of a plical palm, preparing to precipitate paradigms of picturesque, panoramic, polished perception! But paradoxically, pain precedes perfection, precisely the prayer of plentiful preachers pronouncing predestinatory probabilities, but we peregrinate from the protracted prose for persevering, the poet prevails! Heh....
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Last month, NASA set its sights on the moon. Forty years after the historic Apollo 11 landing and 37 years after the last American shook moon dust from his boot, our lunar neighbor is looming large in the imagination. This time, the world's scientists are excited by a mile-high dust cloud kicked up when a NASA probe slammed into the moon's surface at 5,600 miles per hour on Oct. 9. NASA commanded...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Kumukumu Gallery 42 Rivington Street, 212-677-5160 East Village / Lower East Side November 19 - December 13, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 6 - 9 PM Web Site KUMUKUMU is proud to present its second special project, Figment , curated by Florence Uchida and featuring the works of Gina Ruggeri and Rob Wynne. Gina Ruggeri’s cut-out paintings on Mylar evoke striking illusions that interact with...
beFrank (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Even though we live pretty close to the ocean, I'm usually not thinking about sunsets at the beach. Usually I have no time, so it's just not on my radar most days. A few friends have suggested I get out and take some beach pictures lately, so I decided to make a quick run for some golden hour shots (sunset style). The freaking beach was quiet and very nearly empty. I guess that's what you get this...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News When A Camp 's Nina Persson sang, "Now we're gonna party like it's 1699" at her band's show on Tuesday night, she was only half kidding. With plume-adorned microphone stands, an elegant grand piano, sunset-colored lamps and dark blue mood lighting, New York's Le Poisson Rouge was decorated more like an old-fashioned cabaret than a Manhattan music club....
The Gray Monk's Scriptorium (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
My colleague in Tehran has been helping some of our other colleagues with their course. I took the opportunity to see what they were up to in the fire boxes. Unlike the one's George and I use, there is no pretence of making them look like a room The object of the exercise is to show fire fighters how to control the heated gases which develop rapidly at ceiling level. It is also an opportunity to show...
Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
On Friday, NASA scientists confirmed the discovery of water on the moon. Using spectral analysis to determine the composition of the plume resulting from last month's LCROSS rocket collision, they found more than 100 liters of water. Steinn Sigurðsson on Dynamics of Cats calls the presence of water on the moon "amazing," but cautions that at these concentrations, it's "dry by Earth...
Bedfordshire's flora and fauna online (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
This came to the window tonight - 16/11. Any ideas. I thought perhaps Stenoptilia bipunctid actyla but hard to be sure. Seems a bit late.
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - Preliminary data from NASA’s LCROSS mission indicates that water ice is present in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. LCROSS crashed into the Cabeus crater on Oct. 9, creating a plume of material. Water ice could be a vital resource...
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