New Horizons, the fastest launched probe, is shooting towards a close encounter with Pluto and its three moons on July 14, 2015. As NH will get ~50 metre resolution we can work out the baseline for an interferometer to achieve the same. In visible light, say 0.5 micrometers, the limit of distinguishable detail 50 metres
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Hints of life found on Saturn moon – space – 04 June 2010 – New Scientist. CASSINI News Bite Something is eating acetylene and hydrogen on Titan! Ok, so it might be chemistry, bare and unadorned by the complexity that is Life, but the two missing gases are exactly what would be used by an
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An MSNBC news-bite covering a recent study by Richard Greenberg, long time Europa researcher, which quantifies the delivery of oxygen, produced by photolysis of surfaces ices, to the ocean beneath. The ocean seems to be highly oxygenated and, Greenberg estimates, able to support a macro-fauna mass of 3 million tons. Kind of old news since
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I dream of a City, but not like any we know in our Time. This City is more like a forest – of crystal columns, thinking inscrutable thoughts. But the City is powerful – it reaches across all Times, drawing people to It. It exists, as a Boundary or Guardian, at the Side-ways limit of
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Ah… this is apparently a regular occurance on Jupiter… Jupiter has lost a belt! …By Emily Lakdawalla …referencing Astro Bob here… Jupiter loses one of its belts …who tells us the following… So here’s the surprise. That bad boy south equatorial belt (SEB) has completely faded away. Point your scope at the planet any morning
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The image above is Jupiter seen through a different spectral filter, and as you can see the bands defined by CH4 (methane) absorption are still as prominent as ever. This indicates the change in visible light colours is due to some trace compound that normally colours the clouds – but what? NB Notice how bright
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Jupiter lost a cloud stripe, new photos reveal – Space.com- msnbc.com. Jupiter’s missing stripe might be related to this… The impact of a large object with Jupiter in July 2009 Authors: A. Sánchez-Lavega, A. Wesley, G. Orton, R. Hueso, S. Perez-Hoyos, L. N. Fletcher, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, J. Legarreta, I. de Pater, H. Hammel, A. Simon-Miller,
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Weird, Ultra-small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine Drainage …at On Orbit …a reiteration of this Astrobiology Magazine piece …itself a re-echo of this U.Cal Berkeley News Bite. Basically the ARMAN (Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms) microbes, classified with the Archaea, are very small, but still independently subsisting organisms, perhaps even predated upon by Thermoplasma
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Dr. Michael Persinger is a researcher in neuroscience at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. He has made a wide-range of often controversial claims for the origins of “spiritual” experiences – for example, that magnetic stimulation of the brain can cause out-of-body and “Sensed Presence” experiences, or that natural geomagnetic disturbances, from “earth-lights” and similar
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