Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show on Jan. 3-4 NASA has set up a live camera feed for the Web so you can see tomorrow’s meteor shower! The 2012 Quadrantids, a little-known meteor shower named after an extinct constellation, will present an excellent chance for hardy souls to start the year off with some late-night… [Read more…]
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A Nobel prizewinning crystal has just got alien status. It now seems that the only known sample of a naturally occurring quasicrystal fell from space, changing our understanding of the conditions needed for these curious structures to form…. Read more: newscientist.com Read also: The quasicrystal from outer space
In the Andean mountain range, stretching across the border between Chile and Argentina, lies a volcanic caldera named Laguna del Maule, roughly 15 by 25 kilometers (9 by 15 miles) across. Within the northern part of the caldera lies Maule Lake, which is surrounded by a complex volcanic landscape. This perspective image is made from data acquired… [Read more…]
http://youtu.be/yb10Cpx27w0 Space probe gets up close to lunar crater that is two miles deep and so huge it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye Orbiter flies past just 16.2 miles up Images of crater twice as deep as Grand Canyon Shows layers of minerals like strip mines on Earth Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 270802 (2011) [4 pages] Molecular Gas Sensing Below Parts Per Trillion: Radiocarbon-Dioxide Optical Detection I. Galli, S. Bartalini, S. Borri, P. Cancio*, D. Mazzotti, P. De Natale, and G. Giusfredi Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR (INO-CNR) and European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Radiocarbon (14C) concentrations at a 43 parts-per-quadrillion… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
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