Red Storm sweep away Yachtsmen for A West title

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Scarborough thundered to an early lead over Falmouth in Wednesday nights A West Championship, then maintained control throughout. In the first five minutes alone, Elizabeth Gross picked up two and Samantha Shoebottom tallied one.

After that, the Red Storm cruised to a 7-0 W.

We told the girls, We need to go out there and pop a few goals in quickly, Scarborough head coach Caitlin Cashman said. Take the wind out of their sails.

The speeches she gives sometimes, Gross said of Cashman, really pump me up. Just go as hard as you can, right off the bat, shut em down.

Scarborough, now 20-0 on the season, advances to Saturday nights state final against Lewiston, who defeated Leavitt/Edward Little 2-0 for the A East crown. The puck drops at 7 p.m. at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.

Cashman didnt expect to beat the Yachtsmen by such a huge margin. We just went out there saying, Take it shift by shift, carry by carry, shoot with a purpose because Falmouth is a gritty, hardworking teamYouve to be able to finish, and [we] were able to finish tonight.

Senior forward Rachel Wallace was also surprised by the Red Storms lopsided victory. Whenever we play Falmouth, they come to play. So I was expecting it to be a bit closer game. Obviously, every team hopes they can win by that much.

Falmouth managed to even out play in the latter part of the first period, generating a handful of solid opportunities as the clock ticked toward zero. Red Storm goalie Devan Kane proved unbeatable, however. The one puck that bounced over her, even appeared to slide in the net, must not have crossed the goal line, as the attendant official waved it off.

Scarborough turned some additional pretty plays themselves, before the first buzzer. Riley McKeown whirled through a spin-move to divide the Falmouth defense in the slot and pull the trigger on a backhander in close. McKeown didnt score just then, but the thrilling display of footwork and puckhandling foreshadowed the dominance her team would exert in the second.

Building a big lead can lull teams into false security, but not Scarborough. Gross felt that she and her roster-mates might have let up here and there but never for long. We might have [relaxed], at some points, but then we just stepped it right back up.

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NASA solves Martian rock mystery

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NASA has solved the mystery of the "Martian jelly doughnut." First seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on January 8, the 1.5-in (4 cm) wide, white-rimmed, red-centered rock that resembles a piece of pastry seemingly appeared out of nowhere, but the space agency now says that it's actually a rock fragment dislodged by the rover's passing.

The "jelly doughnut," also known as Pinnacle Island, made its appearance when it showed up in an image sent by Opportunity where nothing was present four days earlier. It looked a bit as if a fungus had suddenly grown from the Martian soil and prompted a law suit in a California court by science writer Rhawn Joseph, who claimed that the rock was a living organism that NASA refused to investigate properly.

However, far from being dramatic proof of life on the Red Planet, new images indicate that Pinnacle Island is a fragment of a rock that one of Opportunity's wheels struck which broke off and rolled downhill.

"Once we moved Opportunity a short distance, after inspecting Pinnacle Island, we could see directly uphill an overturned rock that has the same unusual appearance," says Opportunity Deputy Principal Investigator Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis. "We drove over it. We can see the track. That's where Pinnacle Island came from."

In the interests of thoroughness, Opportunity examined Pinnacle Island and found it contained high levels of water soluble manganese and sulfur, indicating a wetter environment in the ancient past. "This may have happened just beneath the surface relatively recently," Arvidson says. "Or it may have happened deeper below ground longer ago and then, by serendipity, erosion stripped away material above it and made it accessible to our wheels."

Opportunity is now headed south to study an exposed section of rock higher up the slope in the direction of a ridge called the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment in honor of engineers Jack Beverlin and Bill McClure, who saved the Mariner 6 Mars probe from destruction on liftoff on February 14, 1969.

The sudden appearance of the "jelly doughnut" (Image: NASA)

This maneuver is the first that Opportunity has made in a month as it waited out a spell of bad weather. According to NASA, part of the reason for this move is to place the rover's solar panels at better advantage as the Martian southern hemisphere passes its winter solstice. Nursing Opportunity's power supply is of considerable importance to NASA due to the rover operating over a decade past its design life.

"We are now past the minimum solar-energy point of this Martian winter," said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "We now can expect to have more energy available each week. What's more, recent winds removed some dust from the rover's solar array. So we have higher performance from the array than the previous two winters."

Launched on July 7, 2003, Opportunity is the second and final Mars Exploration Rover and twin of the now defunct Spirit rover. It landed on January 25, 2004, three weeks after Spirit, in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars for a mission scheduled to last 90 Martian days, but ten years later, it's still going strong. It continues to study Martian soil and provide surface calibration for orbital observations by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and has traversed about 25 mi (40 km), making it one of the most well-traveled rovers in history.

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NASA Moon Dust Probe Beams Its 1st Lunar Photos to Earth

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NASA's newest moon probe has beamed its view of the lunar surface back to Earth for the first time.

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft (called LADEE for short) beamed the new moon photos which NASA released Feb. 13 to ground controllers on Earth earlier this month. The new images show stars and a pockmarked lunar landscape.

LADEE's star tracker cameras took the wide-angle photos. The small spacecraft uses these cameras to figure out its orientation in orbit, a very important job. The accuracy of the probe's moon dust researching instruments relies upon knowing where it is located in space, NASA officials said. [See all five new moon photos and more from NASA's LADEE probe]

"Star tracker cameras are actually not very good at taking ordinary images," Butler Hine LADEE project manager said in a statement. "But they can sometimes provide exciting glimpses of the lunar terrain."

The five images were taken at one-minute intervals on Feb. 8 and capture slightly different parts of the northern western hemisphere of the moon. The star tracker cameras took the images during lunar day with Earthshine lighting up the moon's surface, NASA officials said.

The first photo shows the crater Krieger with the crater Toscanelli, in the foreground. The second image shows another crater called Wallaston P close the horizon and part of the moon mountain Mons Herodotus, according to NASA. LADEE's third picture captured the lunar mountain range, Montes Agricola.

"Image four in the series captures Golgi, about four miles (6 km) in diameter, and three-mile-wide (5 km) Zinner," NASA officials said in an announcement. "The final image views craters Lichtenberg A and Schiaparelli E in the smooth mare basalt plains of Western Oceanus Procellarum, west of the Aristarchus plateau."

LADEE launched into spacelastSeptember to investigate the moon's thin atmosphere and mysterious lunar dust.

Scientists are trying to solve a mystery that dates back to the Apollo moon missions and even before. Astronauts observed an odd glow on the moon's horizon before sunrise, and scientists think that it could have been caused by electrically charged dust in the moon's thin atmosphere (called an exosphere). LADEE's instrumentation is designed to investigate if it was dust that caused that light.

Understanding the moon's exosphere could also help scientists learn more about exospheres on other small bodies in the solar system. Researchers think that exospheres are the most common kinds of atmospheres in the solar system.

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NASA data find some hope for water in Aral Sea basin

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A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long-term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, short-term prospects are better than previously thought.

Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its water volume over the last 50 years. Its watershed -- the enormous closed basin around the sea -- encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Graduate student Kirk Zmijewski and assistant professor Richard Becker of the University of Toledo, Ohio, wanted to find out whether all of the water was gone for good, or whether some of it might have ended up elsewhere in the watershed, behind dams or in aquifers. They also wanted to gauge whether decreasing rainfall has contributed to the catastrophic water loss.

The researchers used data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to map monthly changes in mass within the watershed from 2003 to 2012. These changes are associated with changes in water volume, both on and below the land surface. They mapped the entire Aral Sea watershed, which is more than twice the size of Texas at 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square kilometers).

Zmijewski and Becker found that each year throughout the decade, the watershed lost an average of 2.9 to 3.4 cubic miles (12 to 14 cubic kilometers) of water, or the equivalent of one Lake Mead per year. That's a sobering rate of loss, but it's only about half as much as the rate at which the Aral Sea itself is losing water (5.8 cubic miles or 24 cubic kilometers).

"That means that roughly half the water lost from the Aral Sea has entirely left the watershed, by evaporation or agricultural uses, but half is upstream within the watershed," said Becker.

Specifically, more water is now in the central part of the watershed, where almost all of the region's farming takes place. That area increased in mass during the last four years of the study. The researchers believe that some of the increase comes from improvements in water conservation practices, though some was simply the result of inefficient irrigation, for example, water seeping out of unlined ditches into aquifers.

Decreasing rainfall in the region has been widely reported, and the researchers wanted to quantify its role in the water loss. They were unable to find a complete and reliable published rainfall record for the entire watershed using ground-based measurements, so they analyzed rainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. Unexpectedly, they found no change in precipitation since 2002. "That was more surprising to us than anything else," said Becker. To check that result, they extended their analysis back to 1980, using data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project for the earlier years. There was no sign of dwindling precipitation for the watershed across the entire 30-year period.

Patterns of rainfall have shifted near the Aral Sea, Becker pointed out, and that may have misled observers into believing that rain was decreasing overall. "Lake-effect precipitation downwind of the Aral Sea has decreased, but precipitation over the sea itself has increased, so that's not changing the whole system," he said.

The basin's water woes began in the 1930s with a Soviet development plan to create a cotton industry in the Central Asian desert. Rivers flowing into the Aral Sea were diverted to nourish the thirsty crop, setting off the inland sea's decline. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, several watershed countries have maintained a cotton-based economy.

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