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Fireflies in forest



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308304/If-glow-woods-today--moment-fireflies-turn-woods-enchanted-forest.html

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Bacon skates, you just know you need them on a daily basis



see here what they are used for:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/09/old-weird-tech-huge-spatula-and-bacon-skates-edition/62403/

[doberman-08]

Good find Bill^^

[doberman-08]

Earl and Fiona

This image from the GOES-13 satellite, taken at 10:32 a.m. EDT on Sept. 3, shows a huge Hurricane Earl northeast of North Carolina with cloud cover stretching over the northeastern U.S. A disorganized Tropical Storm Fiona is located in the bottom right of this image.

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Image Credit: NASA/NOAA Goes Project

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1753.html

[Who_ate_my_rice]

BATMAN!

[bigROBOTbill]

Cool stuff...
http://www.scavo.net/rikpg1.html

[doberman-08]

PURPLE AURORAS: Auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle today and some of them are purple. Here is how the sky looked this morning, Sept. 8th, over Bø, Norway:http://spaceweather.com/

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Fourmile Canyon Fire

The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn west of Boulder, Colo., in this image taken on Sept. 7, 2010, casting a long line of smoke to the east that was visible from NASA's Aqua satellite in its orbit around the Earth.

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MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of the fire at 2:40 p.m. local time (20:40 UTC) on Sept. 7. The red outline corresponds with the unusually high surface temperatures associated with an active fire. The thick smoke plume flows eastward. Over the plains northeast of Denver, the smoke plume casts a shadow to the north.

By early morning on Sept. 8, thousands of people had abandoned their homes while the battle against the blaze continued.

Image Credit: NASA/MODIS
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1754.html

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Chandra Views the 'Heart of a Rose'

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This composite image shows the Rosette star formation region, located about 5,000 light years from Earth. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are colored red and outlined by a white line. The X-rays reveal hundreds of young stars in the central cluster and fainter clusters on either side. Optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey and the Kitt Peak National Observatory (purple, orange, green and blue) show large areas of gas and dust, including giant pillars that remain behind after intense radiation from massive stars has eroded the more diffuse gas.

A recent Chandra study of the cluster on the right side of the image, named NGC 2237, provides the first probe of the low-mass stars in this satellite cluster. Previously only 36 young stars had been discovered in NGC 2237, but the Chandra work has increased this sample to about 160 stars. The presence of several X-ray emitting stars around the pillars and the detection of an outflow -- commonly associated with very young stars -- originating from a dark area of the optical image indicates that star formation is continuing in NGC 2237. By combining these results with earlier studies, the scientists conclude that the central cluster formed first, followed by expansion of the nebula, which triggered the formation of the two neighboring clusters, including NGC 2237.

This work was led by Junfeng Wang of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The co-authors were Eric Feigelson, Leisa Townsley, Pat Broos and Gordon Garmire from Penn State University, Carlos Roman-Zuniga from the German-Spanish Astronomical Center in Spain, and Elizabeth Lada from the University of Florida.

Credits: X-ray (NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Wang et al), Optical (DSS & NOAO/AURA/NSF/KPNO 0.9-m/T. Rector et al)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/rosette.html

View from Halfway Through Multi-Year Trek

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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this view at the end of a 111-meter (364-foot) drive on the 2,353rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 6, 2010). This sol's drive took Opportunity past the estimated halfway point of the approximately 19-kilometer (11.8-mile) journey from Victoria Crater to the much larger Endeavour Crater.

Opportunity began the trip from Victoria to Endeavour in September 2008 after two years of exploring in and around Victoria. After the rover science team selected Endeavour as the rover's next long-term destination, observations of Endeavour's rim by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed the presence of clay minerals. This finding makes the site an even more compelling science destination. Clay minerals, which form exclusively under wet conditions, have been found extensively on Mars from orbit, but have not been examined on the surface.

A portion of the Endeavour rim is visible on the horizon in this image. In the nearer ground, exposures of bright-toned outcrop are visible between crests of darker, wind-sculpted sand ripples.

Opportunity completed its three-month prime mission on Mars in April 2004 and has been operating as an extended mission since then.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/gallery/opportunity20100908.html

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would have LOVED to watch that coming down

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Going underground: British explorers map out 'never-ending' cave network underneath Borneo jungle

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1310129/British-explorers-map-cave-network-underneath-Borneo-jungle.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0722_050722_caveart.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/feature2/gallery1.html

These incredible images show British scientists on an expedition to map a 'never-ending' cave network in a project that dates back more than 30 years.

The twisting network of caverns underneath Gunung Mulu National Park, in Sarawak, Borneo, contains the largest cave chamber in the world, the largest cave by volume and what is believed to be the largest cave passage.

Scientists carry out bi-annual visits into several caves and have so far mapped out an incredible 186 miles of the underground network.

Follow the links for more information.

[doberman-08]

Good find Grim _b

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On the Move

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As if surrounded by a celestial halo, space shuttle Discovery made its way towards the expansive confines of NASA Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building following a move from its processing hangar on Sept. 9, 2010. A metal sling will be carefully connected to the spacecraft and then operators will hoist it from transfer aisle to the high reaches of the 52-story building before lowering it into place beside the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Crews then will connect the spacecraft giving the stack its familiar launch day form. Discovery is targeted to liftoff on the 11-day STS-133 mission on Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT.

Image Credit: Jen Scheer
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1756.html

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Phoenix Deck after Sample Deliveries

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This mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows a portion of the spacecraft's deck after deliveries of several Martian soil samples to instruments on the deck.

In the center and right foreground is the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer. On the left is the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer.

The component images for this approximately true color view were taken on various dates during the five months that Phoenix studied its surroundings after landing on a Martian arctic plain on May 25, 2008.

The Phoenix Mission was led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission was by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development was by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/multimedia/phx20100909.html

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C3-class Solar Flare Erupts on Sept. 8, 2010

Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region erupted, producing a solar flare and a fantastic prominence. The eruption also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection into space. The eruption was not directed toward any planets.


SDO captured this fantastic prominence associated with the Sept. 8 solar eruption of sunspot 1105.

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This is a snapshot of the prominence. Credit: NASA/SDO
 
 
Susan Hendrix
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=15504&media_id=18195427

 

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Ushering in the Future

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Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the Saturn rocket to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was at Marshall to participate in the Center's dedication ceremony, Sept. 8, 1960.

Image Credit: NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1757.html

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'Cambridge Bay' Outcrop Examined by Opportunity

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This panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity includes an outcrop informally called "Cambridge Bay." Opportunity examined this outcrop in August 2010. The outcrop includes an apparent contact between two bedrock units which have different textures and perhaps compositions.

A stereo view of this image combines exposures from the left eye and the right eye of the navigation camera to provide a three-dimensional effect when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.

Opportunity used its navigation camera during the 2,335th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Aug. 18, 2010) to take these images. Science instruments on the robotic arm were used to measure the chemistry and texture of the outcrop from Sol 2340 (Aug. 24, 2010) to Sol 2346 (Aug. 30, 2010). Opportunity has since resumed its journey toward the long-term destination of Endeavour Crater. Portions of Endeavour Crater's rim are visible on the horizon.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/gallery/pia13372.html

[Mithster18]

on a related topic: KRYLL!!!

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from an upcoming episode of amazing race.

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