Human on Mars, Is It True? Ex-NASA Employee Claimed for the Existence – Video

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NASA #39;s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) former employee Jackie claims that she saw two humans on the planet Mars in 1979. She allegedly said that she saw two humans in spacesuit.

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NASA Releases Narrated Animation of MMS Launch and Deploy …

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In March of 2015, an unprecedented NASA mission will launch to study a process so mysterious that no one has ever directly measured in space. To create the first-ever 3-dimensional maps of this process, a process called magnetic reconnection, which occurs all over the universe, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission uses four separate spacecraft equipped with ultra high speed instruments.

Launching four satellites into space simultaneously is a complicated process. In addition, each spacecraft has several booms that will unfold and extend in space once on orbit. A launch and deployment with so many moving parts is meticulously planned.

Watch the video to get a sneak preview of how MMS will make this journey: The four spacecraft are housed in a single rocket on their trip into space. One by one, each ejects out, before moving into a giant pyramid-shaped configuration. Next each spacecraft deploys its booms.

Once in orbit, MMS will fly through regions near Earth where this little-understood process of magnetic reconnection occurs. Magnetic reconnection happens in thin layers just miles thick, but can tap into enough power at times to create gigantic explosions many times the size of Earth.

Reconnection happens when magnetic field lines explosively realign and release massive bursts of energy, while hurling particles out at nearly the speed of light in all directions. Magnetic reconnection powers eruptions on the sun and closer to home it triggers the flow of material and energy from interplanetary space into near-Earth space. The MMS orbit will carry the four spacecraft through reconnection regions near Earth, using this nearby natural laboratory to better understand how reconnection occurs everywhere in space.

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A narrated animation of how NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission which consists of four separate spacecraft -- will launch into space.

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NASA To Tackle Climate Questions From Africa To Arctic

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Five new NASA airborne field campaigns will take to the skies starting in 2015 to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters, and fires in Africa affect our climate. NASA says these studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASAs Earth Venture-class projects. Each project is funded at a total cost of no more than $30 million over five years. This funding includes initial development, field campaigns and analysis of data.

This is NASAs second series of Earth Venture suborbital investigations -- regularly solicited, quick-turnaround projects recommended by the National Research Council in 2007. The first series of five projects was selected in 2010.

"These new investigations address a variety of key scientific questions critical to advancing our understanding of how Earth works," said Jack Kaye, associate director for research in NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington. These innovative airborne experiments will let us probe inside processes and locations in unprecedented detail that complements what we can do with our fleet of Earth-observing satellites.

The five selected Earth Venture investigations are:

Seven NASA centers, 25 educational institutions, three U.S. government agencies and two industry partners are involved in these Earth Venture projects. The five investigations were selected from 33 proposals.

Earth Venture investigations are part of NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder program managed at Langley for NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The missions in this program provide an innovative approach to address Earth science research with periodic windows of opportunity to accommodate new scientific priorities.

NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, sea, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and surface-based observation campaigns. With this information and computer analysis tools, NASA studies Earth's interconnected systems to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.

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Why NASA looks to Europa to find the building blocks of life

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NASA wants to send an expedition to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to find the ocean it believes lies under the ice -- and the building blocks for life it thinks it will find there.

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When it comes to life, biologists have long hypothesised that its origins -- on Earth, at least -- were in thermal vents on the ocean floor, following a period of spontaneous metabolism before life began. Thermal vents are rich sites for marine life -- especially in Antarctica where, in the darkness under the ice, creatures proliferate in the warm, mineral-rich waters streaming from the vents.

It's just one of several theories, but if it's correct, Jupiter's moon Europa could be a very exciting place indeed. Ever since plumes of vapour were discovered on Jupiter's moon in December last year, NASA has been floating theories about the oceans that may be sloshing away under the layer of surface ice -- its similarities to theories about the early Earth look like it may have the ingredients for life.

"[There is] an ocean in our solar system that has been in existence for billions of years. It's an ocean that is perhaps ten times as deep as Earth's ocean. It's an ocean that is global and may contain two to three times the volume of all the liquid water on Earth. It's an ocean that exists beneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon, Europa," said NASA astrobiologist John Hand in a new NASA video.

In its early days, before the formation of the ozone layer, Earth's atmosphere was largely devoid of oxygen, and we know that the Earth has been all but covered in a layer of ice in several ice ages past. These ice layers, which provided protection from harsh ultraviolet light and a crude atmosphere, combined with thermal vents -- sites of propagation for single-celled organisms -- could very well bear strong similarities to Europa, with its layer of ice and crude atmosphere.

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Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are studying the life around these thermal vents on Earth in order to collect clues about what life on Europa might look like. In particular, they're looking at a type of shrimp called Rimicaris hybisae, living on one of the world's deepest hydrothermal vents, in the Caribbean Sea.

"For two-thirds of the Earth's history, life has existed only as microbial life," said JPL senior research scientist Max Coleman. "On Europa, the best chance for life would be microbial."

Life on thermal vents is able to survive extraordinarily harsh conditions; bacteria, for instance, survives without sunlight -- and therefore photosynthesis -- by relying instead on chemosynthesis: a process whereby organisms obtain energy from chemical reactions. In the case of bacteria on the hydrothermal vent, the bacteria use hydrogen sulphide produced by the vents to produce organic matter. Although hydrogen sulphide is toxic to organisms in high concentrations, the bacteria have adapted by positioning themselves directly between the sulphide-rich water and the normal ocean water.

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5 mind-boggling apps

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The Heirloom app lets you preserve old photos.(Heirloom)

There are approximately 1.3 million apps available for our smartphones and tablets. Many are simply a bad idea. Most are average in use or scope. Fortunately, some very innovative developers have changed the way we used to do things for the better. Here are five mind-boggling apps that I know you're going to want.

1. Preserve old photos

You probably have photo albums and shoeboxes full of old print photos. If you take care of them they should last for decades, but during a move, house fire or natural disaster they might get damaged or destroyed. Plus, if they're sitting in a box or on the shelf, no one else can enjoy them.

That's why so many people spend hours scanning photos into a computer to preserve and share them. Unfortunately, scanning is a slow process.

You have to take the photo out of the photobook, put it on a scanner and wait for a while. Once you've scanned it, there's still a lot of work you have to do. You need to crop it, straighten it, color correct and clean up any scanning artifacts.

Now there's an app that makes preserving print photos a snap, literally. It's called Heirloom (Free; iOS, Android). You simply take a picture of a photo and it does the cropping and color correcting automatically. You can even leave photos in their albums, so you don't risk damaging or losing them.

Once the photo is ready,you can upload itto Facebook, Twitter or another site, or upload it to Heirloom's own social network. You can upload as many photos as you want. So, what are you waiting for?

2. Get better customer service

How many hours of your life have you spent on hold waiting for customer service? It's probably more than a few. You could be doing much better things with your time.

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UCTV Monthly Promo December 2014 (CARTA – Domestication; Eye Health; Michael Pollan) – Video

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Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) This month on UCTV: New CARTA series explores the role that the domestication of animals played in our human evolution; UCSF Mini Medical School explores all things...

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From emotionally crippled to loving personality | George Vaillant | TEDxAmsterdam 2014 (SIGN LANG.) – Video

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http://www.tedxamsterdam.com As a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research at the Department of Psychiatry, George Eman Vaillant M.D. has a lot of duties....

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Atlas Liberty Forum ’14: Difficult Territories, Yuliya Kocherhan Ukraine – Video

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Atlas Liberty Forum #39;14: Difficult Territories, Yuliya Kocherhan Ukraine
Hear stories from the most dangerous places to advocate for freedom. Moderator: Elisa Martins (Atlas Network, United States) Speakers: - Yuliya Kocherhan (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine)...

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