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• NASA Reveals CO2 Models

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 438
  NASA recently released seven years of daily climate data, providing some of the first accurate evidence on the effects of carbon dioxide on our atmosphere. The satellite provides the data via its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIR) instrument, which is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The AIRS has been ...
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• Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins.Cassini scientists had been looking for the glint, also known as a specular reflection, since the ...
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• NASA Transfers Kepler Mission Management to Ames Research Center

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  NASA today transferred management of all operations for the Kepler Mission from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., to NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. JPL managed the mission through development, launch and the start of science operations. The spacecraft was launched March ...
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• Coldest Spot on the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 436
  Hermite is foreground for an Earthrise in 2007, witnessed by Japans Kaguya . Hugging the west side of the Moons north polar region Hermite is within the Zone of Librations. Though two-thirds of its 114 km-wide interior is technically on the Moons Far Side it can still be seen from Earth. Not along its southwestern ...
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• NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  NASA Press Release VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air ...
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• Jetpack for Learning Taking Off

  
  Pogovor — Authority: 92
  Image via Wikipedia I’m privileged to be be one half of the technical mentoring team for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge , along with the prolific Andy Edmonds . We’re well under way to getting the participants going with implementing their ideas in Phase 2. You can read about some of them on the ...
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• Nasa sky survey probe blasts off

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Successful launch of WISE satellite.
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• NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a ...
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• WISE Launch Rescheduled for December 14

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  The launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission is now rescheduled for Dec. 14, with a launch window of 6:09 to 6:23 a.m. PST (9:09 to 9:23 a.m. EST). The first launch attempt scheduled for Dec. 11 was delayed due to an anomaly in the motion of a booster steering engine.Mission managers have ...
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• Off to Marquette

  
  Lights in the Dark — Authority: 116
    Opportunity checks out "Marquette Island" The rover Opportunity took this false-color photo of another possible stony meteorite dubbed “Marquette Island” on Monday December 7. These objects stand out on the barren sandy plain that Opportunity is currently traveling across on its way to Endeavour Crater and ...
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• Okay, Cross off "Asteroid Impact" from List of 2012 Earth-Ending Disasters

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 133
  It turns out that we might not be at the mercy of unknown life-ending asteroid collisions any longer, at least after Monday, when NASA launches its WISE telescope . WISE -- aka Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer -- will search for objects that give off any heat. National Public Radio notes: WISE should find many ...
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• New Star Found in the Big Dipper

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. According to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, one of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle’s handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion. Newly ...
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• NASA’s WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.NASA’s newest spacecraft is currently perched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of ...
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• Court issues notice to Himachal government on felling of trees

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Shimla, Dec 9 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday took suo-motu notice of media reports regarding thousands of trees facing the axe in Himachal Pradesh over the construction of a power transmission corridor.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice R.B. Misra and Justice Rajeev Sharma directed the state ...
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• Exoplanet Found by Astrometry Not Really There?

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Written by Nancy AtkinsonIn May 2009, astronomers were jubilant: finally, an extra solar planet had been found by using the method of astrometry.  That’s great, except, they may not have found a planet after all. Researchers from JPL reported they found a Jupiter-like planet around a star smaller than our sun.But ...
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• JVC Steals Smallest and Lightest Crown With its GZ-HD620 Camcorder [Jvc]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 463
    It was only last week that JVC dropped three new Everio camcorders on us, after nearly six months of quiet times. Read more from the original source: JVC Steals Smallest and Lightest Crown With its GZ-HD620 Camcorder [Jvc]
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• JVC Steals Smallest and Lightest Crown With its GZ-HD620 Camcorder [Jvc]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 463
    It was only last week that JVC dropped three new Everio camcorders on us, after nearly six months of quiet times. Today’s Everio GZ-HD620, which was announced in Japan first, is the world’s smallest HD HDD camcorder. Weighing only 270g, it’s also the lightest Read more: JVC Steals Smallest and Lightest ...
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• Over 20,000 trees face the axe in Himachal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Vishal GulatiShimla, Dec 4 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh could lose as many as 20,000 trees, thanks to apparent lapses on the part of the state forest department, which has given the green signal to a power transmission corridor in a highly eco-sensitive zone.The forest department has recently allowed Jaypee Powergrid ...
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• Dug In

  
  Lights in the Dark — Authority: 116
  Spirits well mired in Martian soil Since November 17 the Mars Exploration Rover team has been attempting to carefully get Spirit out of the sand trap she’s been stuck in since summer….unfortunately there’s no sign of freedom for the rover yet. The photo above, taken on November 28 with Spirit’s Forward ...
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• Dolphin Browser Gives Droid the Multitouch It Should’ve Had From the Start [Android Apps]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 463
    As far as phones go, the Droid is an olympian. A supermodel. Read more from the original source: Dolphin Browser Gives Droid the Multitouch It Should’ve Had From the Start [Android Apps]
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