[ August 19, 2016 ] Delta 4 successfully soars to the high ground to deploy two patrol satellites Delta 4
CAPE CANAVERAL — The 375th Delta rocket doubled the size of the Air Force’s “neighborhood watch” program today with the successful launch and deployment of two surveillance satellites into the vast geosynchronous belt of spacecraft around the planet. Evolved from its humble beginnings 56 years ago to today’s modern Delta 4 rockets, the 206-foot-tall vehicle produced 1.1 million pounds of thrust to launch at 12:52 a.m. EDT (0452 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37. The mission: Carry twin Geo..>> view originalWhat we can learn from watching video of coral lose its color
Scientists have long warned of coral bleaching events, but few knew the phenomenon could be so violent.Last week, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology described the first-ever video of coral bleaching in the journal Coral Reefs. They found that under simulated warming conditions, solitary mushroom coral called Heliofungia actiniformis will swell and squeeze, dramatically expelling their algal tenants. The eight-day time-lapse video, which is making the rounds on the internet..>> view originalHow to track poverty from space
You can get a pretty good idea of a country’s wealth by seeing how much it shines at night — just compare the intense brightness of China and South Korea to the dark mass of North Korea that’s sandwiched between them.But nighttime lights don’t tell you which neighborhoods or villages within a large region are merely poor and which are home to people living in abject poverty. That’s the level of detail policymakers need when they decide where to deploy their economic development programs. You co..>> view originalHow rare is Montana's 'Tufts-Love' T. rex find?
Paleontologists have discovered a massive example of one of ancient history’s scariest dinosaurs in the famed Hell Creek formation in Montana: a humongous 2,500 pound Tyrannosaurus rex head that could be just the beginning of a massive find for Washington State’s Burke Museum.A research team led by scientists from the museum and the University of Washington worked to unearth the 66.3 million year old T. rex head over the course of a month this summer. Most of the skeleton could still be in the ..>> view originalWatch astronauts installing an open-source airlock on the International Space Station
Two US astronauts are installing a new doorway on the International Space Station, a key step toward opening up the station to new commercial vehicles. Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins left the station shortly after 8am EST, with a six and a half hours in space ahead of them. Their mission is to install the International Docking Adapter so that the next generation of US space vehicles can safely carry future astronauts to the station. Since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, astronauts arrive at ..>> view originalIt's really time to go: Alaskan village votes to relocate due to climate change
Residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, voted Wednesday to relocate its ancestral island home to safer ground, escaping eroding shores and rising seas brought on by climate change. Melting sea ice has strengthened the storms that beat along the island's shores, causing chunks to drop off into the ocean, even as the permafrost on which the community is built is rapidly disappearing.Home to about 650 Inupiat Inuit, an Alaskan native people, the village is located on a narrow island just north of the Ber..>> view originalHow Otzi the Iceman outfitted himself: Fur from brown bears and leather from roe deer
What does the 5,300-year-old man wear?Brown bear hats, goat leather leggings, roe deer quivers and striped jackets made from an assortment of sheep hides, according to a study published Wednesday in Scientific Reports. The new work presents the most detailed analysis yet of the many garments of Ötzi the Iceman, who was 45 years old when he died of an arrow wound in the Italian Alps more than 5,000 years ago.Ötzi got his nickname because he was discovered in the Ötztal Alps. He is the oldest kn..>> view originalSEE IT: Possible human sacrifice ritual at CERN caught on camera
A strange video circulating online shows what looks like a human sacrifice ritual in Geneva at the CERN laboratory, known best for the Large Hadron Collider. Filmed seemingly in the middle of the night from an upstairs window, the video shows a group ...>> view original
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