Posted on 11 August 2011.
After many years of slowly riding along, Opportunity, NASA’s robot which is well-beyond its estimated life span, has finally reached a crater on Mars called Endeavour. It’s triumphant enough that Opportunity remains operational as it has been in continued operation for seven years. That it has reached Endeavour is even that much more satisfying for [...]
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Posted on 09 August 2011.
The ‘orange stuff’ that began appearing in Kivalina, Alaska, recently has turned out to be eggs. That’s right, microscopic eggs, in fact. Villagers in the remote and sparsely populated town of Kivalina first noticed the orange stuff being swept onto shore banks. Other residents noted that it was even appearing in buckets left outside which [...]
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Posted on 08 August 2011.
There is unrest in London, some of what could look like a game of high-tensioned football went awry at first glance. Businesses are having their windows busted, police cars are being toppled and in some cases, set on fire. But it’s not male sport fans with an overdose of adrenaline turning to the street to [...]
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Posted on 05 August 2011.
NASA is scheduled to send another spacecraft into space within the matter of a couple mere hours at 11:34 A.M., today. This one is headed to Jupiter and the spacecraft itself is called Juno. NASA has been creating a regular stir lately with spacecraft arriving to asteroids such as Vesta with their Dawn probe and [...]
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Posted on 03 August 2011.
A semi-submersible submarine was caught yesterday off the coast of Honduras by the United States Coast Guard. Officials of the Coast Guard said that it had been carrying 7.5 tons of contraband, cocaine. The submersible had been sunken and the Coast Coat had help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation which deployed divers to recover [...]
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Posted on 02 August 2011.
NASA released new photographs today of the asteroid Vesta that the Dawn spacecraft had been built and constructed for visiting in the name of scientific discovery. One of NASA’s hopes are that investigating the space-rock will provide additional details regarding the original building blocks of our galaxy. Dawn has been within thousands of miles of [...]
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