NASA DC-8-72 (N817NA) take off from Santiago de Chile to Punta Arenas – Operation IceBridge – Video

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An unexpected visit coming from Palmdale, California (KPMD) on NASA817 flight for IceBridge operations in the antarctic. Later this flight continues from Santiago (SCEL) to Punta Arenas (SCCI)...

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NASA image of the sun looks like jack-o-lantern face

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This NASA image of the sun captured Oct. 8, 2014, looks like a jack-o-lantern face. (NASA/GSPC/SDO)

The sun as imaged by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on Oct. 8, 2014, in extremeultraviolet light. (NASA/SDO)

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Photo By Boyd, John/Source: "Earth as Art," published by NASA

Garden City, Kansas Center-pivot irrigation systems created the circular patterns near Garden City. The red circles indicate irrigated crops of healthy vegetation, and the light-colored circles denote harvested crops.

Photo By Boyd, John/Source: "Earth as Art," published by NASA

Carnegie Lake, Australia Ephemeral Carnegie Lake, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh.

Photo By Boyd, John/Source: "Earth as Art," published by NASA

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NASA's MAVEN: First results from mission to Mars dazzle scientists

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NASA's newest Mars orbiter, MAVEN, has returned its first observations of the red planet's upper atmosphere, laying a promising foundation for answering a nagging question about the planet's environment: What happened to an atmosphere that supported a warm and wet planet some 4 billion years ago, only to become the dry, chilled desert that astronomers see today?

Although its science mission has yet to begin, the craft already has revealed clues with the first detailed measurements of the upper atmosphere's hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, which back in the day would have appeared as water vapor and carbon dioxide two potent gases for trapping heat near the surface.

This would have allowed liquid water to remain stable on the surface, providing potential habitats for microbial life.

Following its arrival at Mars Sept. 21, the craft also recorded the passage of a blast of energetic particles that erupted from the sun on Sept. 30 in an event known as a coronal-mass ejection, the most powerful solar storms that the sun generates. Such storms are thought to have played an important role in altering Mars' climate by depositing large amounts of energy in the upper atmosphere, splitting water and CO2 molecules and ejecting the hydrogen into space.

MAVEN,short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution,is still in its shakedown phase. All instruments are working but are in need of final adjustments before they begin to take measurements in a coordinated fashion starting in November.

Still, during its first few weeks onorbit, MAVEN has given the science team its first look at the structure of the extended upper atmosphere and the distribution of the three key atoms, some of which are escaping, said Bruce Jakosky, a University of Colorado astrobiologist and the mission's lead scientist, during a briefing Tuesday.

In addition, we're starting to see the processes that drive the escape, he said. Those processes are likely to have been more intense in the past, when a younger sun was more active than it is today.

The team is seeing these clues to Mars' atmospheric history with unexpected clarity.

For instance, MAVEN's Imaging UltravioletSpectrograph recorded an extended, if tenuous, envelope of hydrogen atoms around Mars that extends as far as 21,000 miles from the planet easy pickings for stripping, because the atom is so light and thus is less tightly bound by the planet's gravity than is oxygen or carbon.

While MAVEN showed that Mars holds the upper atmosphere's inventory of carbon and oxygen much closer to its gravitational vest, the craft also revealed an extended envelope of oxygen above the sunlit hemisphere. This so-called hot oxygen has been energized through photochemical reactions that the sun's light triggers. Some of this extended oxygen gets stripped from Mars, as well.

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NASA's Maven spacecraft snaps 'unprecedented' images of Mars

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NASA's latest spacecraft sent to study the Martian atmosphere is already collecting data.

NASA's latest spacecraft sent to study the Martian atmosphere is already collecting data.

NASA scientists announced this afternoon that its Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft is securely in orbit around Mars, and all of its instruments are working well.

The orbiter, which entered Mars' orbit on Sept. 21, has already sent back images of what NASA scientists are calling a "storm" of energetic solar particles around Mars, giving researchers unprecedented ultraviolet images of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet,

"After this afternoon, all of its instruments will be on much of the time," said Bruce Jakosky, the Maven principal investigator. "The aim of our activities right now is to get to the start of science mapping and that will be in early to mid November."

Today, Maven is in the midst of a six-week commissioning period, where all of its instruments are turned on and tested. It's also the time when the spacecraft goes through a series of maneuvers to put it into the specific orbit needed to do its scientific work.

NASA officials have carried out four of the seven maneuvers that will get Maven into its ultimate orbit. So far, Jakosky said, there have been "no problems whatsoever" in Maven's commissioning.

The spacecraft's mission is to understand the current structure and dynamics of Mars' upper atmosphere. Scientists are looking to find out what caused the planet's atmosphere to thin and how that loss influenced the climate history of the planet. They're also looking for clues as to why Mars didn't hold onto its water and become a lush planet like Earth.

Scientists excitedly reported that as they've been testing Maven's instruments it already has begun collecting data and sending back better images than they had expected.

"They look gratifyingly like the models we put together for the last year," said Justin Deighan, the Maven team member in charge of the orbiter's remote sensing. "But the quality of the data was better than we were expecting. The ability to see the high-altitude oxygen -- we were hoping for it, but we couldn't have expected to get that good of an image."

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NASA's Maven spacecraft gets first look at Mars' atmosphere

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First images reveal storm of energetic solar particles on Mars Hoped mission will explain how the martianatmosphere'escaped' leaving a barrenplanet

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Published: 18:36 EST, 14 October 2014 | Updated: 18:44 EST, 14 October 2014

It is a mission set to solve the mystery of what happened to the atmosphere on Mars.

Nasa's Maven spacecraft has given scientists their first glimpse of the upper atmosphere of the red planet, which has baffled them for decades.

It is hoped the craft can explain why the red planet lost most of its atmosphere.

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Unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, taken by Nasa's Maven spacecraft

The hydrogen and oxygen coronas of Mars are the tenuous outer fringe of the planet's upper atmosphere, where the edge of the atmosphere meets space.

In this region, atoms that were once a part of carbon dioxide or water molecules near the surface can escape to space.

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Singer on path from Northwest to Nashville

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A performance on the Grand Ole Opry stage brings to mind a vision of cowboy boots and 12-string guitars, but on Oct. 29, high school students from all over the country will transform it into a different type of concert.

Radhika Gore, 16, a junior at Northwest High School in Germantown is one of the students that was chosen to participate in the National Association for Music Educations All-National Honor Choir in Nashville.

Im going to be totally honest. I didnt know what [the Grand Ole Opry] was before this, Gore said, explaining that once she looked it up she was impressed and couldnt wait to sing there because she thought the acoustics would be amazing.

The All-National Honor Choir is made up of the top high school choral performers in the country. In order to audition, one must first be accepted into his or her All-State Festival. Gore participated in All-State for the first time last year and, because of that, was given a list of different programs and choirs she could audition for. The All-National Honor Choir grabbed her attention.

In May, Gore submitted an audition online of her singing Danny Boy and He Trusted in God, both traditional choir songs that she used to make it into the All-State Festival.

We had to upload two separate videos of us singing songs for two minutes. I chose what I thought was best, Gore said.

While those who auditioned were supposed to hear back by July whether or not they had made it, July arrived and Gore hadnt heard anything. She reached out to her choral director who checked the roster online where she saw Gores name.

I was a little disheartened. I thought that it would at least be nice of them to let me know what happened, but when I did find out it was even more exciting than it would have been, she said.

Shes been listening to music ever since she was born, her father, Vivek Gore, said, explaining the family has always been very musical. She does sing a lot around the house, theres always music going on. She cant study without music.

Right now, Gore is studying the music she will have to perform with the choir. Unlike most concerts where the performers have weeks to rehearse together to get the sound just right, students at All-National only have a couple days.

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4 Ways Your Business Can Be a 'No-Selfie' Zone

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Businesses can do a few things to legally patrol the conduct of their customers, and some employers may be wondering how to make their workplace a "no-selfie" zone.

Selfies are so ubiquitous that even monkeys are taking them, but the law can protect your business from becoming a chaotic breeding ground of chattering narcissists.

Check out these ways your business can become a "no-selfie" zone:

1. Prohibit All Photography.

If you don't mind a broad approach to stopping selfies, then simply institute a "no photography" policy. In the olden days, this would have been easier to enforce, as it was far more difficult to surreptitiously snap a photo with a camera. Now, of course, selfies are mostly taken with smartphones, and it can be very difficult to tell when someone is texting, browsing, or taking a selfie.

Despite its difficulty to enforce, this kind of broad policy against any photography is completely legal, and you may actually gain some customer goodwill from those who feel their privacy is violated by shutterbugs.

2. Make Your Business Less Smartphone-Friendly.

Many businesses offer their customers free Wi-Fi, which allows patrons to more easily upload selfies without using their cellular data. If you want to turn a cold shoulder to the millenials and the digerati, you may want to consider simply not offering free Wi-Fi to customers.

A word of warning, however, if you're considering a cell signal blocker to keep your business free of cell phones entirely: According to the FCC, these devices are illegal.

3. Post a 'No-Selfies' Policy.

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Recovery- an alcoholic’s story & the reemergence of psychedelic medicine | Robert Rhatigan | TEDxABQ – Video

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Recovery- an alcoholic #39;s story the reemergence of psychedelic medicine | Robert Rhatigan | TEDxABQ
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Robert Rhatigan struggled with alcoholism for over ten years. When numerous attempts to overcome ...

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Wagon Wheel – Cottonwood Creek (Old Crow Medicine Show cover) Live on Great Day KMPH Fox 26 – Video

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Cottonwood Creek performing "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show live on Great Day KMPH Fox 26 on 10/10/14.

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Alien: Isolation Funny Moments – (Being Hunted & Finding Medicine For Taylor!) – Video

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