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In a new scientific investigation, astronomers were finally able to get more insight into the phenomena and processes that lead to the Saturnine moon Iapetus taking on the odd yin-yang look that it does. Apparently, what it all comes down to is the presence of dust in the orbit the moon takes. Iapetus' external ... |
13 July 2011
03:36 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that analyzing how ordinary drinking glass shatters may hold clues to how climate change will evolve here on Earth. The new investigation was led by experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).What the team found was that microscopic part... |
28 December 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Experts at JAXA announced that they have recovered a series of small particles from the sample chamber of the battered Hayabusa mission, which returned to Earth this June.They say that some of these small particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, may very well be extraterrestrial dust. If so, then the mission ... |
7 October 2010
08:48 GMT |
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A team of researchers will spend the next three years trying to determine precisely how more than 770 million tons of dust influence the global environment. The investigation will be conducted on a very large database of knowledge, which will be augmented by satellite studies and past climate models. Every single yea... |
7 October 2010
02:22 GMT |
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According to a recent research, it would appear that the incidence of dust-on-snow events is increasing dramatically in the Colorado River Basin, with potentially devastating consequences. The conclusion belongs to a study conducted by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and t... |
21 September 2010
04:06 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the University of Alabama in Huntsville announced that it will be engaging in a three-year research effort, which will focused on tracking down more than 770 million tons of sand and dust as the stuff is blown off the Sahara Desert. Scientists know that the dust is spread throughout the a... |
17 September 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Researchers at NASA have just been awarded new funds to study data that has been collected by the space agency's Phoenix Mars Lander before the harsh conditions on Mars subdued it.Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, who managed the lander's mission, lost contact with t... |
31 August 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Mars is famous among astronomers and planetary scientists for its dust storms. In fact, it would appear that its atmosphere is a lot more active than anyone thought. This was made evident some time ago, when the rover Spirit first saw a dust devil, and imaged it in several color filters before the formation disappear... |
29 July 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Saturn is surrounded by a host of moons, some of them large and very interesting, and others arguably less so. But the gas giant also features some very weird moonlets, cosmic objects that are too small to merit any additional investigation, but which exist around the planet nonetheless. In a groundbreaking new study... |
10 June 2010
03:28 GMT |
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One of the most peculiar occurrences in nature is the fact that deserts can experience lightning. This should not happen, experts say, as the amount of precipitations in some of the world's driest areas is almost negligible. However, dust storms appear perfectly capable of producing lightning discharges, a fact ... |
12 April 2010
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In their survey of the skies, astronomers managed to discover a pair of black holes so distant, that they believed to have formed a relatively short period of time after the Big Bang exploded the Universe into being. The announcement was made on Wednesday, March 17, by experts at the University of Arizona. Details of... |
18 March 2010
05:26 GMT |
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While investigating ice cores collected from various sites in Antarctica, a team of experts noticed an unusual large concentration of tiny particles from meteorites inside the samples. In addition, large accumulations of extraterrestrial dust was also identified, and so the group concluded that a large space rock may... |
4 March 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Dust in our planet's atmosphere is one of the most important factors dictating a multitude of processes going on over extended periods of time. These fine particles, which originate in the deserts of Sahara and the Middle East, have the ability to influence the long-term trend of global warming, and can also hav... |
20 February 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the greatest problems facing a potential human colony on Mars or the Moon is dust. This is especially true in the case of the Red Planet, which is covered in the stuff. Dust devils and sand storms are common occurrences, and these natural events have the ability to significantly disrupt any type o... |
20 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Astronomers discovered some time ago that huge clouds of cosmic dust and gas tended to envelop regions that were extremely appropriate for the birth of new stars. In these areas, which have since been named stellar nurseries, the concentration of dust and gas is so great, that gravitational effects gather these eleme... |
11 January 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Most of you know that Uranus, Neptune and Jupiter all have dark spots, features that are most likely created by various types of interactions in the gas giants' atmosphere. But not many are aware of the fact that Mars also features such a formation, which was first identified on October 13, 1659. Behind the tele... |
1 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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The NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite was designed specifically to identify and analyze features known as “glow-in-the-dark” clouds, which form high above the surface of the planet, and remain luminous even after nightfall. The structures are also known as noctilucent clouds or Polar ... |
19 December 2009
05:06 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking finding that could explain another one of the Red Planet's atmospheric mysteries, experts have determined that the frequency of twisters and dust devils forming on the surface of Mars is about 300 percent higher than first predicted. This could account for the massive plumes of dust that rema... |
18 December 2009
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Ever since the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft started orbiting the gas giant Saturn, in 2004, experts have noticed something very peculiar about one of its moons, called Iapetus. The celestial body appeared to have two faces. On one, it was very bright, as viewed with the probe's cameras, whereas the second was a l... |
11 December 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Everyone who has ever wiped out dust from an entire house can tell you that, just hours after cleaning, the stuff always returns undisturbed, as if nothing ever happened. This is naturally a nuisance to people who spend hours trying to clean up. Most of us have also wondered as to where all the dust keeps coming from... |
13 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Gathering and studying cometary dust is arguably one of the most difficult enterprises today, as the technology to do so is still some years away. But, in 2003, the proverbial mountain came to the scientists, in the form of an Earth-crossing comet that left behind a trail of material that got experts excited. High-fl... |
3 November 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Many experts currently consider that Mars' reddish hue is owed to rusted rocks, which were subjected to the action of the water that once covered the planet. This idea has been proposed and debated for a long time, but recent laboratory studies are beginning to infirm it, some experts say. The investigations hav... |
18 September 2009
08:47 GMT |
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According to an Australian researcher, there is a very tight connection between the amounts of dust that are in the lunar atmosphere at each given point and the time of the day when dust readings are recorded. He says that, when astronauts in the 1960s and the 1970s walked on the Moon, it was in the early hours of th... |
22 April 2009
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The Orion Nebula is, perhaps, one of the most scrutinized objects in the sky, mainly because it can be seen with the naked eye during bright nights. Located in the Orion Constellation, some 1,270 light-years away from Earth, the giant formation has been recently proven to be the stage for the formation of countless n... |
21 April 2009
19:01 GMT |
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For quite some time now, climatologists have known that the layers found in most ancient ice shelves and in large icebergs can be used to get a glimpse into our planet's ancient history, at least as far as climate changes go. Each layer is specific to a certain period of time in our planet's past, and each ... |
30 March 2009
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Well, here we go again... it appears the Canonical just uploaded some new and very nice desktop themes for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) operating system, in order to please their devoted users. Softpedia is once again the first website to offer you a preview of the new artwork, which will probably be p... |
17 March 2009
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Over the last decades, our solar system has been experiencing a massive sand storm, not unlike those that can be found in the desert. All the planets orbited the Sun in a halo of sand particles that is now considerably larger than it was a century ago. The reason for these large amounts of cosmic debris has kept astr... |
10 February 2009
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There seems to be a constant rush as of late to demonstrate that what we used to know and treat as a given is wrong. Evolving technology and the increased amount of accurate scientific data provide more insight on many of these aspects that were not thoroughly investigated so far. As such, it appears that the prevale... |
15 December 2008
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Possibly, Drake's equation should also take into account the factor of comet activity in the environment of the planets that could actually support life. New statistics suggest that our own solar system is far more spared by such cosmic catastrophes than the similar nearby ones, so we own our very existence, to ... |
1 December 2008
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New research shows that pollution in the atmosphere is very likely to encourage the formation of wind swirls underneath super cell storm clouds. This leads to the formation of twisters, which pose significant risks to human lives and cause millions of dollars’ worth of damages each year, in the Midwest during t... |
12 November 2008
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As described in a previous article, Moon dust is a terrible problem that astronauts have to face and which has to be solved if humans are ever supposed to set a firm foot on lunar surface for more than just an erratic scientific expedition. That type of dust is extremely fine and rugged, as well as very adherent to a... |
11 November 2008
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While going through the large amount of pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE high resolution camera, a group of experts from the University of Berne, Switzerland, led by Patrick Russell have come across a series of photos showing a phenomenon strikingly resembling one happening on Earth. By the no... |
10 November 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Dust has been associated with damages to the nose, throat and lungs for a very long time, especially in the case of those working underground, inside mines or in quarries. Over the years, large amounts of dust are inhaled by workers. These tiny particles can form deposits inside the lung, diminishing their capacity t... |
27 October 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Leonardo da Vinci was undoubtedly the most brilliant mind of the Renaissance period, a well-skilled inventor and engineer, as well as a master in most of the arts, such as painting, sculpting, music, architecture, mathematics, botany and anatomy. A great part of his most famous works, sketches, designs and handwritin... |
22 October 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Since there is not water on the Moon and carrying anything there from the Earth would cost loads of money, it is obviously cheaper to use directly the Moon's resources in order to make water-free concrete. US scientists developed a method that would allow for substituting water with the sulfur found in lunar dus... |
21 October 2008
11:21 GMT |
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New observations performed by the Hawaii-based Submillimeter Array's eight antennas indicated that massive black holes had been common since the early ages of the universe. The recent discovery of the collision of two ancient galaxies brought new data on the behavior of black holes.As the artist's concept, ... |
17 October 2008
07:49 GMT |
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By observing vast masses of dust accompanying a distant binary star system, US scientists concluded that it's possible that 2 planets similar to Earth violently collided 300 million light years away from us. Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California in Los Angeles, who worked on the... |
22 September 2008
05:56 GMT |
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This is the highest resolution image ever sent back to Earth by the Phoenix Mars Lander featuring dust and sand particles. The image was captured by the camera of the optical microscope instrument on board the spacecraft and shows particles of dust as small as one-tenth of the diameter of the human hair. The mission ... |
6 June 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Interstellar dust and gas permeates the whole interstellar and intergalactic space, blocking significant amounts of light along the way. But until now, it was unknown exactly how much light was shielded by dust and gas, mostly because most astronomers believe that the effect is irrelevant. New calculations reveal tha... |
16 May 2008
02:40 GMT |
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They say you can't build anything without it, and it is probably the best invention ever. I don't know about that, however duct tape saved the day during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. On 11 December 1972, the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon the lunar module Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan ... |
22 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Hayabusa, meaning peregrine falcon in Japanese, is an unmanned space mission carried out by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, having the task of returning dust from the near-Earth asteroid known as 25143 Itokawa, measuring about 540 meters/ 270 meters/ 210 meters. Hayabusa was launched into space on 9 May 2003;... |
14 April 2008
03:04 GMT |
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The newly developed solid-state device has no moving parts thus it is silent, ultra-thin, requires low power to run and, best of all, needs roughly no maintenance, which pretty much makes it ideal for the next generation of microprocessor cooling system for laptops and other electronic devices. The solid-state microf... |
19 March 2008
08:02 GMT |
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How Earth-like planets form around other planets is not quite known yet, albeit astronomers discover with each passing day that planets are forming in other distant star systems. According to a study presented last week, such a planet forming solar system seems to be forming around a series of stars located about 2,4... |
13 March 2008
09:39 GMT |
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It is generally believed that supernovae usually spread dust into interstellar space as they explode. However, astrophysicists have recently found that this is not always the case, and some might actually collect dust after a supernova phase. These are usually small stars that explode periodically, while gathering cl... |
28 January 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Physicist Phil Metzger warns about the danger of flying rocks that could have energies high enough to smash concrete poles, and punch holes through chain link fences, during the blast off of the solid rocket engines that lift the space shuttles. The exhaust of the engines can blast concrete pieces from the flame tren... |
24 November 2007
05:44 GMT |
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New secrets of the giant gas planet have been exposed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its recent flyby on the way towards the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015. New Horizons was sped on by Jupiter's gravity, saving years of its journey to the icy Pluto. This is the closest encounter with Jupiter since the... |
10 October 2007
03:45 GMT |
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How did the Earth form? Astronomers have detected a "cooking" process for an Earth-like planet. The huge ring of hot dust surrounding a sun-size star 424 light-years away could be shaped into an Earth-like planet in a time period of maximum 100 million years.The team investigating the infrared light coming from the s... |
5 October 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Sometimes I wonder if there is a piece of computer hardware that does not attract dust in industrial size quantities. Please note that I did not say "dust free" or anything. I know it is not possible, but oh, how I'd like at least only hardware component inside or outside my computer to stay really, really clean... |
27 July 2007
10:58 GMT |
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Brian May was the lead guitarist and backing (sometimes lead) vocalist for the English rock band Queen for almost forty years. In addition to being famous for writing the band's biggest hits, "We Will Rock You", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "I Want It All," he�... |
26 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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The two rovers on the surface of Mars are not doing very well, as the dust storm continues and is showing no signs of decreasing in intensity. Rising dust blocks sunlight from reaching the two rovers, who are now operating just above the critical energy level.NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms... |
17 July 2007
05:07 GMT |
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