NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of the storm at 2:40 p.m. local time. The red line depicts the tornado’s track. Continue reading
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Nasa satellite captures stunning 6,000-mile-long panoramic photo of Earth in just 15 minutes
Panoramic photo is 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide Nasa’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission captured the swath of land 438 miles above the Earth Photo stretches from northern Russia to South Africa 56 still images form the panoramic mosaic By Victoria Woollaston PUBLISHED: 04:25 EST, 20 May 2013 | UPDATED: 05:45 EST, 20 May 2013 Nasa has captured the world’s largest panoramic photo at 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide using a satellite orbiting 438 miles above the Earth. The swath is made up of 56 still images taken during the satellite’s final orbit and stretches from northern Russia down to South Africa. Nasa’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) scanned the surface of the Earth during orbit in April and took just 15 minutes to take the shots Continue reading
Space Station Astronauts Home
May 14, 2013: Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), left, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.NASA/AP This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space.AP MOSCOW A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
Space station leaking coolant
NASA This image from a NASA space shuttle mission shows the International Space Station in orbit. Continue reading
9-Year-Old Names Asteroid 'Bennu' for NASA Mission
A near-Earth asteroid that will be visited by a NASA spacecraft in 2018 now has a more approachable name “Bennu” thanks to a North Carolina third-grader. Nine-year-old Michael Puzio’s suggestion beat out more than 8,000 other entries in an international student contest that sought to rename potentially dangerous asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36, which is the target of NASA’s Osiris-Rex sample-return mission. “It’s great!” Puzio said when told he won the contest. Continue reading
Russia's Damaged Progress Cargo Resupply Ship Docks With Space Station
April 26, 2013 Image Caption: An earlier Progress cargo ship prior to docking with the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online Despite all odds, Russias Progress 51 cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 8:25 a.m. EDT Continue reading
Nasa Captures 'Space Horse' To Mark Hubble's 23rd Birthday
1a Supernova Remnant This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research on supernovae Continue reading
NASA's Newest Solar Mission Spacecraft Delivered To Launch Site
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in preparation for launch. Part of NASA’s Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission, which delivers space exploration missions costing less than $120 million, IRIS was designed and built at Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, Calif. Continue reading
Call for action as majority of beaches fail to meet water quality standards
The latest Good Beach Guide from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has found the number of Scottish beaches rated as “excellent” for bathers is now well below the UK average. Tests on water quality carried out last year found 42 of Scotland’s 109 bathing beaches are fit to be included in the guide, while four failed to meet even a minimum European standard for water quality. Among those beaches where ratings fell this year are Machrihanish in Argyll and Bute and Croy in South Ayrshire. Continue reading
NASA ‘s Curiosity rover to be back online next week
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, should be running at full capacity next week, after a memory glitch set the robot back. On February 28, controllers put the rover into “minimal activity safe mode,” when they switched the machine’s operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer’s flash memory Continue reading
NASA's Orion Flight Test Launch On Course
Image Caption: An artist concept shows Orion as it will appear in space for the Exploration Flight Test-1 attached to a Delta IV second stage. Credit: NASA NASA The first spacecraft NASA has designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo era is well on its way to making a flight test next year, agency officials said Wednesday. The mission is planned for launch in September 2014, and will see an Orion capsule orbit Earth without a crew and return through the atmosphere at speeds unseen since astronauts last returned from the moon in 1972. Continue reading
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Swaps Computers
March 1, 2013 Image Caption: This artist concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory The ground team for NASAs Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. The intentional swap at about 2:30 a.m. Continue reading
SpaceX Primes Dragon Capsule for Space Station Mission (Photos)
SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft With Solar Array Fairings in Hangar The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft with solar array fairings attached, stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The spacecraft will launch on the upcoming SpaceX CRS-2 mission. Continue reading
NASA Student Mars Project Wins Education Award
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Astronomy to help identify tumours
Cancer scientists are turning to astronomy to identify the faint hallmarks of aggressive tumours. Techniques developed to find distant galaxies have been adapted to look for indistinct biomarkers. The research could lead to computers replacing the age-old practice of peering down a microscope to search for signs of deadly cancer Continue reading
Kaiser seen as a model for health care overhaul
Sharon Brandon, 59, watched her cousin and her auntie die in a matter of months. Her beloved mother went in two weeks. Continue reading
AAA Educators Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory
February 15, 2013 Image Caption: Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (from left) Constance Gartner, Vince Washington, Ira Hardin and Chelen Johnson at the educators work station aboard the SOFIA observatory during a flight on the night of Feb. 12-13, 2013. Credit: NASA / ASP / N. Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Hood Ornament' on Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has photographed a shiny, metallic-looking object that bears a passing resemblance to a door handle or a hood ornament. The Curiosity rover has not stumbled onto evidence of an ancient civilization that took the family van to Olympus Mons for vacation, however. The object is simply a rock that the wind has sculpted into an interesting shape, scientists said Continue reading
Mnemonics for medical school – Video
Mnemonics for medical school I go through 7 different types of mnemonics that you can use for medical school. The last one is an Image mnemonic. Continue reading
"One Small Step…" Neil Armstrong NASA Astronaut Quote – Video
“One Small Step…” Neil Armstrong NASA Astronaut Quote Armstrong: “That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind.” More Free HQ Sounds: www.youtube.com “One small step for man quote” uploaded by freemaster2 www.freesound.org Public Domain Image: “Boarding Gemini VIII” by NASA www.flickr.com Public Domain By: Iwan Gabovitch Continue reading