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Archive for January, 2008

Orbital Traffic Jam Looms for Space Station (SPACE.com)

Published January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
— The maiden flight of an unmanned European cargo ship is just one of several of
tightly-packed arrivals and departures coming up for the International Space
Station (ISS).

Fresh snow adds to China holiday havoc (Reuters)

Published January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

Rescue crew search for victims at the collapsed workshop of a furniture factory due to heavy snow fall in Jiading district of Shanghai, January 28, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Fresh snow fell across swathes
of south China already paralyzed by harsh winter weather on
Friday, a day after President Hu Jintao headed down a coal
shaft to urge miners to help to end widespread powercuts.

Strange New Creature: Giant Shrew or Tiny Elephant? (LiveScience.com)

Published January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

LiveScience.com - Sporting a trunk-like nose and a jet-black rump, a new species of a bizarre furry mammal was caught on film as it scuttled along a forest floor in Tanzania.

Hundreds of profs hold green ‘teach-in’ (AP)

Published January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

AP - Global warming issues took over lecture halls in colleges across the country Thursday, with more than 1,500 universities participating in what was billed as the nation’s largest-ever “teach-in.”

NASA photos reveal Mercury is shrinking (AP)

Published January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

The Spider Radial Troughs within Caloris. The Narrow Angle Camera of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) on the MESSENGER spacecraft obtained high-resolution images of the floor of the Caloris basin on January 14, 2008. Near the center of the basin, an area unseen by Mariner 10, this remarkable feature nicknamed the spider by the science team was revealed. A set of troughs radiates outward in a geometry unlike anything seen by Mariner 10. The radial troughs are interpreted to be the result of extension (breaking apart) of the floor materials that filled the Caloris basin after its formation. Other troughs near the center form a polygonal pattern. This type of polygonal pattern of troughs is also seen along the interior margin of the Caloris basin. An impact crater appears to be centered on the spider. The straight-line segments of the crater walls may have been influenced by preexisting extensional troughs, but some of the troughs may have formed at the time that the crater was excavated. (AP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)AP - The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider.


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