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Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:50:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Spirit had to get stuck to make its next discovery," says Arvidson.

As the rover tried to break free, its wheels began to churn up the soil, uncovering sulfates underneath.

"Sulfates are minerals just beneath the surface that shout to us that they were formed in steam vents, since steam has sulfur in it. Steam is associated with hydrothermal activity – evidence of water-charged explosive volcanism. Such areas could have once supported life."

"And most amazingly, the boundary between the sulfate-rich soil and the soil with just the generic concentration of sulfates runs right down the middle of the stranded rover. Spirit is lodged on the edge of a crater -- sitting astride the boundary!"

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

Een zeekomkommer

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:56:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Eén van de 17.650 nieuwe diersoorten ...

Clip Source: www.nrc.nl

Curiosity, the new Mars Rover

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:09:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The small, car-sized rover will ramble about on the rocky surface, gizmos at full tilt, not only brushing dust off rocks but also vaporizing them with a laser beam, gathering samples to analyze on the spot, taking high resolution photographs, and more.

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

Tags: space

Water on Mars

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:54:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A fresh, 6-meter-wide, 1.33-meter-deep crater on Mars photographed on Oct. 18, 2008, and again on Jan. 14, 2009, by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. The bright material is ice, which fades from Oct. to Jan. because of sublimation and obscuration by settling dust

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Water on the moon

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:34:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater.

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Omega Centauri

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:41:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster.

The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars.

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Space Station Room With a View

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:00:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is about to get a new "eye-pod." The Tranquility node headed for the space station early in 2010 will feature a viewing dome unlike any other window ever flown in space. The dome, called the Cupola, is literally studded with windows for observing Earth, space, and the marvelous expanse of the ISS itself.

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

Tags: space

Wonderschone microscopische fotografie

Sat, 09 May 2009 15:40:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: E. coli bacterie

Clip Source: noorderlicht.vpro.nl

Early medical library

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:57:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: IN: 'Oeconomus Prudens et Legalis' by Franciscus Philippus Florinus, 1722.
Interior view of early 18th century medical library showing the arrangement of text by author, also indicated are those authors considered important. A large table with several open books on it fills the foreground; a man is returning a book to a shelf.

Clip Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com

Tags: library

the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:27:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.

At a relatively bright magnitude of +8, M104 is just beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility and is easily seen through small telescopes. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is located 28 million light-years from Earth.

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Sunset on Mars

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:16:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: recorded by Spirit in 2005

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Just Behave Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:24:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One of the fascinating outcomes was not just which parts of the brain “fired” when searching, but the difference in the level of mental activity between practiced searchers (called the Internet savvy) and newbies (called the Internet naïve).

Clip Source: searchengineland.com

Green Comet Approaches Earth

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:02:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comet Lulin, named after the observatory in Taiwan where the discovery-photo was taken, is now approaching Earth. "It is a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now,"

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

Major Rivers

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:50:26 GMT

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Clip Source: worldprocessor.com

Kansas City Library

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:37:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kansas City Library has one seriously cool façade. Local residents were asked to nominate influential books that represent kansas city, humungous versions of the winning nominations were then used as the exterior of the library car-park.

Clip Source: www.oddee.com