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Martian Life: Where Fire Meets Ice?

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:31:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

"It's possible that volcanic activity on Mars is much more widespread and recent than people on the whole thought," Hovius said. "This is a flood bigger than anything we've seen on Earth."

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Sept. 5, 2008 -- If life on Mars exists, it may dwell in a violent home.

The Red Planet is no stranger to fiery volcanic eruptions: It is home to the solar system's largest volcano, Olympus Mons. The planet is also well-endowed with ice, which has collected in large sheets near its north and south poles. Yet a key ingredient for life as we know it -- liquid water -- remains elusive.

But what if fire met ice in the Martian north? On Earth, volcanoes sometimes erupt beneath glaciers, melting huge quantities of water and spawning massive floods. Lakes of meltwater are sometimes pinned at the bottoms of glaciers.

Could the same happen on Mars? If so, it might be one of the best places to look for alien life. Now a new study published this month in the planetary science journal Icarus claims to have found evidence of just such an event in the Abalos region, at the edge of the northern ice cap.

Tags: mars, life, glaciers, volcanoes, science

"50 Incredible Film Posters from Poland"

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:33:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: for a better look:-
http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/

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50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland

These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame every time; they are truly beautiful works of art. Trimming this list down to a mere 50 posters that I absolutely love was surprisingly difficult.

Apocalypse Now

Rosemary’s Baby

Tootsie

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back

Return Of The Pink Panther

Raging Bull

The Last Detail

Gandhi

The Fly

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Harry And The Hendersons

The Getaway

MAS*H

Crocodile Dundee 2

Being There

Old Yeller

Terms Of Endearment

War Games

The China Syndrome

Weekend At Bernie’s

Gremlins

Eyes Wide Shut

The Shaggy Dog

Under The Volcano

The Late Show

Short Circuit 2

Missing

Don’t Look Now

Critters

Fanny And Alexander

Flipper

Straight Time

Son Of Godzilla

Stroszek

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Days Of Heaven

Smokey And The Bandit

Permanent Vacation

Fatal Attraction

Airplane 2: The Sequel

The Hospital

Willow

Christine

The NeverEnding Story

Lord Of The Flies

Draughtsman’s Contract

The Changeling

Alphaville

Enter The Dragon

After Hours

Alien

30 Examples of Things by Lava and Ash (pics)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:43:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

There must be few things more frightening than being caught up in the deadly path of an all-absorbing lava flow. Imagine the intense heat, being spattered with skin-scalding magma that’s erupting from the depths beneath or being covered in blistering hot ash spewed forth from the gaping mouth of the giant fiery furnace.

We’ve unearthed some fascinating images of the devastation and destruction caused by the devouring nature of eruptive volcanoes. We hope you’ll agree they make for compulsive viewing.

Tags: hawaii lava roads, lava beds, lava flows, lava flows ocean, molten lava, mount etna, mount pinatubo, pompeii volcano, pyroclastic ash falls

20 Most Incredible Volcanic Satellite Images

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:20:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Few things in nature are as unpredictable as the majestic volcano. Unleashing billowing ash, lava and pyroclastic flows when the Earth’s tectonics plates push and shove at each other like bullies in a playground, volcanoes are testament to the devastating and deadly forces of nature. Their power and might have seen them worshipped in the past, feared always and trusted, never, yet we still are drawn by their beauty, even in the face of destruction.

We’ve unearthed some of NASA’s best satellite images of volcanoes from around the world, revealing the other side of these fiery demons. Their allure remains uncanny but not unsurprising.

Tags: volcano, nasa images, satellite images, american volanoes, asian volcanoes, lava, african volcanoes, ash

Weirdly wonderful blue clouds

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:55:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Polar Mesospheric Clouds (also known as noctilucent clouds) are transient, upper atmospheric phenomena observed usually in the summer months at high latitudes (greater than 50 degrees) of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This image was acquired at an altitude of just over 200 miles

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

The noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds are at an altitude of 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 km), where meteors and bright aurora lights are not uncommon and the atmosphere gives way to the blackness of space. The clouds remain a scientifically baffling phenomenon more than 120 years after their discovery.

The clouds form at dizzying heights where the air is one hundred million times drier than the Sahara. By contrast, the common high-altitude cirrus clouds only reach heights of 11 miles (18 km) up.

People first spotted the noctilucent clouds a few years after the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa super-volcano in Indonesia

We're just trying to understand now how clouds form and how they vary

egmont national park, new zealand

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:05:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: (above) mt. egmont volcano last erupted in 1755 and is now situated at the centre of egmont national park. park regulations have ensured the survival of a forest which extends at a 9.5 km radius from the summit of the volcano, the result of which can be seen from space in the form of huge dark green disc. this photo was taken during the sts-110 mission, april 2002.

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Volcanic sunsets

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

This weekend, observers around Europe are reporting the same "volcanic sunsets" widely observed last week in North America.

"This was probably due to aerosols in the stratosphere spewed by the August 7th eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian Islands."

Meanwhile, back in the USA, "the sky is on fire," reports Doug Zubenel of Kansas. "The colors tonight (Aug. 30th) were about as vivid as I have ever seen (photos)." One state away in Nebraska, Jerry Chab reports "the sky was white at the horizon and turned yellow, orange, red, purple, blue then finally black up high (photos). It was like a rainbow in clear skies!"

Tags: astronomy, climate, geology, volcano, sky, sunset

Clark Air Base

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:21:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what part of Clark Air Base looked like after the volcano eruption

Clip Source: vulcan.wr.usgs.gov

Damien Rice!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:18:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cmt.com

Unplayed Piano [Chris Lord-alge Mix] (full length video)
The Blower's Daughter (Film Version) (full length video)
Label: Warner Bros. Records
The Blower's Daughter (full length video)
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Volcano (full length video)
Label: Vector Recordings

Spectacular Chile Volcano Eruption

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:09:11 GMT

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Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Nature still has the best special effects....

Chile Volcano eruption!!
Several weeks ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the
coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquefied rocks many miles
into the sky with lightning. The results, which you see here, are called a

'dirty thunderstorm,' and are quite rare.

Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic
it's believed to be 'the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in
the plume colliding to produce static charges-just as ice particles collide
to create charges in regular thunderstorms.'

Tags: science, volcanoes, chile

amazing volcano pictures

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:51:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wired.com

Tambora Reddens Skies, Disrupts Global Weather, 1815

20 Ways the World Could End

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:41:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scary...yet possible?

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

20 Ways the World Could End

Asteroid impact

1 Asteroid impact Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously.

2 Gamma-ray burst If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi.

3 Collapse of the vacuum In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine,"

4 Rogue black holes Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide.

5 Giant solar flares Solar flares— more properly known as coronal mass ejections

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles

7 Flood-basalt volcanism In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted

8 Global epidemics

9 Global warming

10 Ecosystem collapse

11 Biotech disaster While we are extinguishing natural species, we're also creating new ones

12 Particle accelerator mishap Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber,

13 Nanotechnology disaster

Tags: natural disasters, human-triggered disasters, willful self-destruction, apocalypse, technology

The Mars Webcam

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:45:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The VMC is operated by the Mars Express Flight Control Team, based at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. This activity is conducted on a 'best-effort, last-priority' basis given the availability of planning time, command upload time and data down-link capacity.

This is a unique situation, as Flight Control Teams for ESA missions usually do not 'operate' payload instruments; this is done by dedicated, specialised science teams. But the VMC is different: it had a purely operational purpose (successfully completed in 2003 with Beagle's separation) and as such it is not operated by scientists, but by flight controllers.

Clip Source: www.esa.int

A gallery of the best images captured by the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) during testing and optimisation in 2007. The selection includes a crescent Mars, Mars' rotation and views of the Red Planet's 'volcano family' (we've also included a few images taken by the VMC in 2003).

Hi-res

Sunburst at Mars 1 Jun 2007

Hi-res

Mars rotation 12 Sep - 8 Oct 2007

Hi-res

First image of Mars volcanoes 23 Mar 2007

Hi-res

'Family' view of the Martian volcanoes 11 Dec 2007

Hi-res

First glimpse of Olympus Mons 15 Oct 2007

Hi-res

Olympus Mons face-on 9 Nov 2007

Clip Source: www.esa.int

22 August 2008 The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is mounted on Mars Express, ESA's deep-space probe now orbiting the Red Planet. It originally provided simple, low-tech images of Beagle lander separation, and is now back in action as the 'Mars Webcam'. It's not a scientific instrument, but it does provide fantastic views of Mars - including crescent views of the planet not obtainable from Earth.

An ordinary camera in an extraordinary place

Tags: mars, science, space

Volcanoes. Wow!

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:35:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great Pics.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Recent Volcanic Activity

Several volcanoes have erupted in the past few months - two in Chile (Chaiten and Llaima) and one in Alaska (Okmok). At any given time, approximately 20 to 50 volcanoes are active worldwide (depending on the definition of "active"). Collected here are photos of volcanic events from the the past several years, seen from many angles, including low Earth Orbit. (15 photos total)

Lava explodes from the Llaima volcano, one of Chile's most active volcanoes, in Cherquenco, Chile, early Thursday, July 10, 2008

Okmok Caldera in Alaska as viewed from an Alaska Airlines jet in early June, 2007. The 3,500-foot Okmok Caldera, which consists of a 6-mile-wide circular crater about 1,600 feet deep, erupted with little warning Saturday morning July 12, 2008

July 13, 2008

the Okmok Caldera erupting

Rabaul volcano, near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Mt. Etna's eruption on October 30th, 2002

Mt Augustine

2006

Chaiten volcano

Chile

June 17, 2008

Kliuchevskoi Volcano

Impressions of Titan

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:03:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.astrobio.net

An artist’s impression of Ganesa Macula, a mountain on Saturn’s moon Titan believed to be an “ice volcano” that periodically belches “lava” containing liquid water. Research by University of Arizona graduate student Catherine Neish suggests this water may react with organic compounds in Titan’s atmosphere to create complex molecules similar to those on the early Earth.
Credit: Michael Carroll

ESA’s Huygens Probe is seen floating on a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn’s moon Titan in an artist’s impression. Research by University of Arizona graduate student Catherine Neish suggests Titan’s atmosphere may contain complex molecules similar to those on the early Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL and Gregor Kervina, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Tags: titan, saturn

Clipmarks | Volcano Clips

Martian Life: Where Fire Meets Ice?

"50 Incredible Film Posters from Poland"

50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland

Apocalypse Now

Rosemary’s Baby

Tootsie

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back

Return Of The Pink Panther

Raging Bull

The Last Detail

Gandhi

The Fly

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Harry And The Hendersons

The Getaway

M*A*S*H

Crocodile Dundee 2

Being There

Old Yeller

Terms Of Endearment

War Games

The China Syndrome

Weekend At Bernie’s

Gremlins

Eyes Wide Shut

The Shaggy Dog

Under The Volcano

The Late Show

Short Circuit 2

Missing

Don’t Look Now

Critters

Fanny And Alexander

Flipper

Straight Time

Son Of Godzilla

Stroszek

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Days Of Heaven

Smokey And The Bandit

Permanent Vacation

Fatal Attraction

Airplane 2: The Sequel

The Hospital

Willow

Christine

The NeverEnding Story

Lord Of The Flies

Draughtsman’s Contract

The Changeling

Alphaville

Enter The Dragon

After Hours

Alien

30 Examples of Things by Lava and Ash (pics)

20 Most Incredible Volcanic Satellite Images

Weirdly wonderful blue clouds

egmont national park, new zealand

Volcanic sunsets

Clark Air Base

Damien Rice!

Spectacular Chile Volcano Eruption

amazing volcano pictures

St. Helens Blows Its Top, 1980

Pinatubo Kills by Ash and Mud, 1991

Vesuvius Buries Pompeii, A.D. 79

Laki Starves Thousands to Death, 1783

Kelut Kills Kilopeople, 1586

Japan's Unzen Kills, Very Un-Zen, 1792

Nevada del Ruiz Turns Glaciers to Concrete, 1985

Mount Pelée Burns and Gases City, 1902

Krakatau Explosion Rocks Hemisphere, 1883

Tambora Reddens Skies, Disrupts Global Weather, 1815

20 Ways the World Could End

20 Ways the World Could End

The Mars Webcam

Volcanoes. Wow!

Recent Volcanic Activity

Impressions of Titan

MAS*H