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Climate Change Satellite gets Green Light for Launch
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been cleared for takeoff, following nearly a year…
Google Oceans, Google Mars
[/caption] Google Earth now allows you to probe the depths of Earth's oceans as well as fly through the giant…
Global Warming May Be Irreversible
A new paper published by a leading researcher says many effects of climate change are already irreversible. Susan Solomon, a…
Old Space Observatory Spare Parts to Search for Dirty Bombs
[/caption]From 1991 to 2000, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory dominated the search for the largest explosions ever observed in the…
NASA Aids California Wildfire Fight: An Opinion from the Smoke
[/caption] This morning at 5:30am, I woke up to the smell of smoke. It's one of those horrid, gut-wrenching feelings…
Ozone Hole Bigger Again
[/caption] Is the ozone hole was recovering? Maybe not. The protective atmospheric layer of ozone around our planet has been…
2012: No Geomagnetic Reversal
[/caption]Apparently, on December 21st 2012, our planet will experience a powerful event. This time we're not talking about Planet X,…
Astrophysicist’s South Pole Death Remains a Mystery After Eight Years
[/caption]In May 2000, Australian astrophysicist Dr Rodney David Marks died from acute methanol poisoning whilst stationed at the US Amundsen-Scott…
Got a Green Idea? Win $25,000
From the people that brought you the X PRIZE and the Google Lunar X PRIZE comes something new that's a…
Explore Earth’s Satellites with Google Earth
[/caption] OK, I've just wasted an hour in simulated space, checking out some of the active and junked satellites orbiting…