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Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon

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The Harvest Moon, photographed by Catalin M. Timosca of Turda, Romania.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/22sep_harvestmoon/

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Twitchell Canyon Fire

The Expedition 24 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed the Twitchell Canyon Fire in central Utah on Sept. 20. The fire near central Utah’s Fishlake National Forest is reported to cover an area of approximately 13,383 hectares, or 33,071 acres. This detailed image shows smoke plumes generated by several fire spots close to the southwestern edge of the burned area. The fire was started by a lightning strike on July 20, 2010. Whereas many of the space station images of Earth look straight down (nadir), this photograph was exposed at an angle. The station was located over a point approximately 316 miles to the northeast, near the Colorado/Wyoming border, at the time the image was taken. Southwesterly winds continue to extend smoke plumes from the fire to the northeast.

Image Credit: NASA

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Antarctic Ozone Hole 2010

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The yearly depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica – more commonly referred to as the “ozone hole” – started in early August 2010 and is now expanding toward its annual maximum. The hole in the ozone layer typically reaches its maximum area in late September or early October, though atmospheric scientists must wait a few weeks after the maximum to pinpoint when the trend of ozone depletion has slowed down and reversed...............
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45802&src=eoa-iotd

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An Unexpected Scattering of Light

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This series of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a dark mass of gas and dust, called a core, where new stars and planets will likely spring up.

The image on the far right shows the core as seen at longer wavelengths of infrared light (8 microns); when viewed at this wavelength, the core appears dark. The middle image shows the core as seen at a shorter infrared wavelength (3.6 microns). In this view, the core lights up because it is deflecting starlight from nearby stars. This unexpected light, called coreshine, tells astronomers that the dust making up the core must be bigger than previously thought -- smaller particles would not have been big enough to scatter the light. The image on the left is a combination of the other two images.

This particular core lies deep within a larger dark cloud called L183. Spitzer's infrared vision allows it to peer into the dark cloud to see the even darker cores buried inside.

The observations were made with Spitzer's infrared array camera.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Observatoire de Paris/CNRS

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Glowing Southern Lights

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This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the glow of auroras streaking out about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the cloud tops of Saturn's south polar region. It is among the first images released from a study that identifies images showing auroral emissions out of the entire catalogue of images taken by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.

In this image constructed from data collected in the near-infrared wavelengths of light, the auroral emission is shown in green. The data represents emissions from hydrogen ions in of light between 3 and 4 microns in wavelength. In general, scientists designated blue to indicate sunlight reflected at a wavelength of 2 microns, green to indicate sunlight reflected at 3 microns and red to indicate thermal emission at 5 microns. Saturn's rings reflect sunlight at 2 microns, but not at 3 and 5 microns, so they appear deep blue. Saturn's high altitude haze reflects sunlight at both 2 and 3 microns, but not at 5 microns, and so it appears green to blue-green. The heat emission from the interior of Saturn is only seen at 5 microns wavelength in the spectrometer data, and thus appears red. The dark spots and banded features in the image are clouds and small storms that outline the deeper weather systems and circulation patterns of the planet. They are illuminated from underneath by Saturn's thermal emission, and thus appear in silhouette.

The composite image was made from 65 individual observations by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on Nov. 1, 2008. The observations were each six minutes long.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm . The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu .

Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Leicester

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Lighting Up the Night

Lights and space shuttle Discovery are reflected in the water as it rolls to the pad on its final planned mission to the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/multimedia/sts133_rollout_1.html

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[konvik]

At Six Minutes and Seven Seconds
      
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5AM on the 9th of Augues this year
The time and the date will be

05:06.07 08/09/10

Such a consecutive sequence
DID happen again fucker.

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Not to mention it will happen in 2109.

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[Zarkov]

Too many auroras doberman.

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This fossil is a 47.5 million year old pressed flower     E-mail
September, 24 2010
 

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You can almost recognize this 47.5 million year old fossilized flower as a pressed chrysanthemum. What you're seeing is the ancestor of daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lettuce and artichokes, which evolved almost 50 million years ago, on a continent that no longer exists.

Making the rules up as you go along now?

[Nostargate]

I haz auroraz

[Zarkov]

This fossil is a 47.5 million year old pressed flower     E-mail
September, 24 2010
 

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You can almost recognize this 47.5 million year old fossilized flower as a pressed chrysanthemum. What you're seeing is the ancestor of daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lettuce and artichokes, which evolved almost 50 million years ago, on a continent that no longer exists.

Making the rules up as you go along now?

Personal opinion, not a rule.

[kilabee]

To much space in general *personal opinion*

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[Nostargate]

Too many auroras doberman.

too many cats zarkov

[toofast]

Too many auroras doberman.

too many cats zarkov

Not enough stargates Nostargate

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Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests

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Modern humans escaped extinction due to their farther-flung populations?
Catastrophic volcanic eruptions in Europe may have culled Neanderthals to the point where they couldn't bounce back, according to a controversial new theory.

Modern humans, though, squeaked by, thanks to fallback populations in Africa and Asia, researchers say............................................
.............The researchers acknowledge that there are gaps in the volcanoes theory. For instance, the time line needs to be better defined—did the volcanic eruptions occur in a period of months, years, or decades?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100922-volcanoes-eruptions-neanderthals-science-volcanic-humans/

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[nzjeebs]

OH MAH GAWD ITS A TRIPPLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY *sobs*

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[Ngati_Grim]

Picked up this book the other day. Fascinating!

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Too many Auroras?