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Officials managing the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), have just uploaded a new image relayed back to Earth by the telescope, showing Jupiter and Mercury in conjunction.
Both planets can be seen to the right of the Sun. Mercury is the brig... |
23 May 2012
10:57 GMT |
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It's no big secret that mercury is a highly toxic element. Although it is true that mercury is naturally found in the environment, it seems that human activities have led to an alarming increase in the amounts of mercury present in the natural world. What makes mercury so dangerous is the fact that it doesn&#... |
23 May 2012
03:32 GMT |
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The Arctic Ocean and surrounding areas are polluted with mercury from a number of sources, scientists at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found in a new study.
The dangerous chemical is brought to the area by atmospheric forces such as winds, as well as by intricate river flow... |
21 May 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Recent analyses conducted by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft revealed that the surface of the innermost planet in our solar system is more colored than first anticipated.What is interesting is that this diversity of colors is apparent both in true- and fals... |
21 April 2012
06:59 GMT |
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An international group of investigators was recently able to produce the most accurate measurements on the radius of the Sun. In order to do that, the team used an unconventional approach, which other scientists did not have access to during previous studies.
Scientists in Hawaii, California and Brazil used the NAS... |
28 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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According to the latest readings sent back by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the innermost planet in our solar system, it would appear that water-ice may exist underneath a thin layer of regolith, hidden in permanently-obscured craters at the north pole of Mercury.
The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry an... |
23 March 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Both the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter and the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) missions are currently operating within mission extensions granted by NASA. Both completed their original science tasks successfully.
MESSENGER was originally supposes to... |
23 March 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Data relayed back to Earth by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter suggest that the innermost planet in the solar system had a very rough history, which led it to display a very weird internal structure.
In fact, scientists say, no other planet in the solar syste... |
21 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting around the innermost planet of the solar system was recently able to collect an amazing view of a landscape feature called the Rembrandt impact basin. The photo was snapped on February 07, 2012.
The image was taken by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS).... |
7 March 2012
05:56 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that Arctic sea ice decline is contributing to depleting the amounts of ozone present at ground level. The same phenomenon also contributes to promoting the release of more bromine in the air.
That is a very dangerous chemical that can l... |
2 March 2012
02:24 GMT |
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The Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction event was the worst mass dying to affect life in all history. It occurred about 250 million years ago, and scientists thought they had a pretty good idea of the factors that caused it. Yet, a new study managed to identify a culprit that also played a role in the extinction... |
7 January 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Starting on Monday, December 26, the Moon and the planet Venus paired up in the night sky, and will remain in this position throughout the remainder of the week. This provides skywatchers with a great opportunity to observe both bodies at the same time.
Astronomers refer to such a pairing up as a conjunction. In th... |
28 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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After a long time studying why Mercury's magnetic field is so weak, researchers were finally able to determine that the planet's magnetism is stifled by the solar wind. The effects are so intense because the planet is very close to the star.
Studying magnetism at Mercury is so critically important to scie... |
23 December 2011
07:52 GMT |
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The plan revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), called The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) aims to protect the American families from alarming levels of arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, chromium, and cyanide.
The measures marks the beginning of hard times for major polluting power plants... |
22 December 2011
10:37 GMT |
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These days gastronomy goes hand in hand with technology to make sure that people who enjoy tasty treats in high-profile restaurants are not exposed to any threats. The new app was launched by Sierra Club, in an attempt to make sure that sushi ingredients won't follow the already known dangerous trajectory: fr... |
13 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Since we won't be able to find traditional incandescent bulbs in shops starting September 2012, this plan has given green light to a quest aiming to explore the most efficient substitutes.
Innovative Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) seem to provide the best answers to this problem and represent the favorite option... |
13 December 2011
10:07 GMT |
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The Environmental Protection Agency EPA has recently announced it is going to support a stricter set of regulations aiming to control the activity of some of the most polluting US power plants that develop oil and coal-burning operations. The anticipated changes are expected by the end of this week, believed to cur... |
13 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Astronomers now propose that Mercury may have been set on its weird orbit by an asteroid impact that occurred a long time ago. The idea came to scientists after noticing that our solar system's innermost planet was not tidally-locked to the Sun. Such a state can be seen on the Moon, which always keeps the same... |
12 December 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Big American power plants keep disrupting the balance of residents, through the overwhelming amount of toxic pollutants they emit, like lead, mercury, nickel or arsenic.
The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has managed to identify the first 20 major players responsible for low air quality and has revealed th... |
10 December 2011
04:16 GMT |
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As the video embedded at the end of this article will confirm, a skywatcher recently discovered an interesting object near Mercury, apparently moving in the same direction as the planet itself. The unidentified object might very well be an UFO, or it could be a light artifact.
YouTube user siniXster says that the vi... |
7 December 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Not everything that glitters is gold and no gold-digging process is risk-free. Scientists highlight that goal extraction implies the usage of mercury, presenting long-term risks for
mine workers and communities located near the sites. This alarming situation made the EU adopt strict regulations and ban the usage o... |
18 November 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to the innermost planet in our solar system has been extended by a year, officials at the American space agency announce.
Originally, the space probe was supposed to cease operations in 2012, but officials decided to grant it ... |
17 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have affirmed that indoor pollution can have a major influence upon the air quality, damaging our health even more than the sources of outdoor pollution from the most industrialized cities all across the Globe. Independent studies analyzed by experts led to ... |
5 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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Ever since the MESSENGER space probe reached the innermost planet in our solar system, earlier this year, researchers have been puzzled by hollows the spacecraft detected on the planet's surface. Experts now propose new ideas to explain the formation.
The NASA mission's full name is the MErcury Surface, Sp... |
31 October 2011
06:45 GMT |
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Investigators at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have recently completed a new study on the origins of elevated mercury concentrations in the Yukon River, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the world. The team discovered that thawing permafrost was the primary contributor.
Naturally-occurring merc... |
26 October 2011
02:19 GMT |
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Astronomers have been struggling to explain numerous odd properties displayed by Mercury and Uranus for many years now, but leading theories were just discredited over the past few days. Now, astronomers begin to search for new explanations of what actually happened. This line of inquiry is very difficult to push f... |
7 October 2011
09:50 GMT |
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The innermost planet in our solar system is being subjected to a constant beating at all times. Intense solar winds, which are undiluted due to the close proximity between the two bodies, literally sandblast Mercury's poles, triggering phenomena similar to the ones that generate auroras on Earth.
The new con... |
30 September 2011
20:11 GMT |
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In the September 30 issue of the top scientific journal Science, researchers published a series of 7 scientific papers on oddities and interesting features on the surface of the planet Mercury. The new data lead to a better understanding of the innermost planet in the solar system.
One of the papers, for example, ... |
30 September 2011
03:28 GMT |
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The NASA Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe will soon get a companion in orbit above the hellish nightmare that is the planet Mercury. The European Space Agency has signed the contract for securing a heavy-lift rocket to get it there.
In a ceremony that took place... |
15 September 2011
10:32 GMT |
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OWC released many a storage and memory product over the years, being even one of the main suppliers of SSD upgrades for Apple Mac systems, though its recent announcement speaks of a software product instead of more hardware.
Having already, recently, unveiled new DDR3 RAM (random access memory) and solid state dr... |
2 September 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Scientists with the US Geological Survey (USGS) have calculated that leaves falling off trees in the autumn transfer as much mercury from the atmosphere to the environment as precipitations do.The work was focused on surveying the quantities of hazardous mercury that makes its way into the environment. According to r... |
3 August 2011
03:13 GMT |
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The NASA MESSENGER spacecraft is providing new datasets on the surface of Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system. Unlike Mars or Venus, this object is relatively little understood.The main reason for that is the huge amount of technical difficulties associated with exploring this remote world. Temperatures... |
15 July 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Datasets relayed back to Earth by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft are painting an increasingly clearer image of the closest planet to the Sun. Astronomers now know more about the planet than ever before. MESSENGER is the first-ever spacecraft to be injecte... |
17 June 2011
04:52 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has been working on a spacecraft bound for the innermost planet in our solar system for quite some time now, and finally preparations are starting to yield tangible results.Spacecrafts that want to visit Mercury need to be built in a very special way, given the harsh conditions they wi... |
1 June 2011
10:44 GMT |
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On April 4, the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet in the solar system will begin its science mission. Experts hope that the suite of instruments aboard the probe will help them get more insight into some of the things that have puzzled astronomers for years.
Chiefly among those is whether the pl... |
31 March 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Less than two weeks after the NASA MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, it managed to send back the first-ever orbital view of the innermost planet in the solar system.The image depicts a dark landscape, that bears the marks of repeated meteorite and asteroid impacts which scarred its surface... |
30 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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In early April, the MESSENGER orbiter around Mercury will begin its science operations. Here is a view of the instruments the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed for this first-of-a-kind mission.The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe i... |
19 March 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Only two days after the first spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury, the US Postal Service (USPS) has produced a batch of 30 million postage stamps marking the momentous event. They will be released in pairs, with another unique stamp celebrating Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in space.
The USPS began pri... |
19 March 2011
05:14 GMT |
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NASA scientists were able to insert the first spacecraft ever into orbit around Mercury, after the probe spent more than 6 years traveling through the inner solar system. MESSENGER achieved the critical mission milestone on Thursday, March 17.During the maneuver, the vehicle had to slow its speed down by about 1,900 ... |
18 March 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Excitement is currently building up at NASA and in the international scientific community over the fact that the first long-term observations spacecraft is about to achieve orbital insertion around Mercury. The innermost planet in our solar system is very little understood at this point, and experts hope that the sp... |
16 March 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Six days from now, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to become only the second American space probe ever to enter orbit around Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. The event will mark the beginning of a new series of studies, that will answer some very interesting questions about this celestial body.The vehicle launc... |
11 March 2011
08:01 GMT |
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On the enterprise market, high storage capacities are often required, so OWC created a new rack mount storage solution that comes with both a high possible storage capacity and a wide set of connectivity capabilities.Many small and medium businesses, when it comes to providing networked storage, resort to a NAS devi... |
9 March 2011
03:54 GMT |
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The next science mission to Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, will feature a spacecraft that will attempt to do what has never been done before, survey the planet from a low elliptical orbit. Plans are insert the satellite in an orbit that will take it between 400 and 1,500 kilometers (248 to 932 mil... |
31 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers propose for the first time that the mercury cycle taking place in the Arctic and adjacent areas may have a direct influence on the ice cover extent at and around the North pole. These conclusions were derived from a multi-year joint research effort. The chemical cycles through t... |
22 January 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the full-scale version of the upcoming Mercury mapper BepiColombo has just been tested at the agency's Large Space Simulator (LSS), the only facility in the world capable of reproducing Mercury's conditions at such a large scale. ESA will lead the... |
18 January 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Other World Computing decided it was time to provide anyone from consumers to professionals with a so-called desktop hardware RAID storage solution which, in exchange for a hefty price, can pack a very solid storage capacity.
At the start of December, Other World Computing revealed that it had expanded its collec... |
29 December 2010
02:42 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently determined that the salty chemistry of the Dead Sea is causing interesting effects in the air masses above it. Large amounts of oxidized mercury were discovered to permeate the air, a chemical that is usually encountered in polar regions.Experts conducted the new investigation took ... |
30 November 2010
04:02 GMT |
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With all the attention focused around NVIDIA's and AMD's recent announcements, OWC thought it might as well try and offer some variety, so it announced the appearance of a new portable hard disk drive.Most recently, the consumer base has been largely focused on the several updates that NVIDIA and Advanced ... |
10 November 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Paradoxically, fish that live near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of mercury than fish that live further away, concluded a new study carried out by North Carolina State University.Normally, coal-fired power plants are the main source of mercury air pollution on a global scale, but this new discovery seems ... |
6 October 2010
02:52 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation has revealed that an odd exoplanetary system features members that are drawn to their parent star like moths to candlelight.The finding could be used to derive more data on how this type of systems develop, and also into how planets forming around a new star get distributed around the c... |
18 September 2010
04:20 GMT |
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