Science Friday: Lunar Water + Doomsday Denied + New Dinosaur + more November 13, 2009
by Kayla Iacovino , Filed under: Science/Technology , trackback
LCROSS Detects Water On Moon lots of it
Remember a integrate of weeks behind when NASA sent a LCROSS examine plummeting in to a moon to see if their is any H2O in a shadows of a craters. Well currently NASA voiced a commentary as good as it is good headlines for those who have been seeking brazen to receiving a lunar dip. Analyzing a plume sent up from a stroke has giving clear denote of water. LCROSS plan scientist Anthony Colaprete notes "Indeed, yes, you found water. And you didnt find only a small bit, you found a significant amount." It is estimated a plume contained twenty-four gallons of H2O in total.
LCROSS Plume is wet!
DONT PANIC! The World WONT End in 2012, Say NASA Scientists
The end-of-the-world thriller movie 2012, which debuts today, has popularized a suspicion which a universe will finish upon Dec 21st, 2012. The main line of reasoning during a behind of a suspicion is a finish of a Mayan monthly monthly monthly calendar upon which date. What you competence not realize is which a Mayan monthly monthly monthly calendar ends in 2012 only as most as your gregorian monthly monthly monthly calendar ends each year upon Dec 31st! Dec 21st, 2012 simply outlines a beginning of an additional segment of a Mayan calendar. Doesnt which have a total crazy suspicion a indecisive point? Not in Hollywood! Well, NASA has right divided come out to contend STAY CALM! as good as has even released a web page debunking a 2012 parable as good as likens it to a Y2K scare.
Dont worry a worlds not starting to end!
Ares: Time Magazines Best Invention of a Year
Time Magazine has voiced their list of most appropriate inventions of 2009. At a tip is NASAs brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Ares rocket. Its essentially not which startling which TIme would cruise a years most appropriate invention to be a space station which will lift organisation behind to a moon as good as beyond to Mars. The essay during Time does a good pursuit of highlighting a importance as good as details of a Ares Rocket, as good as because you should all be unequivocally excited for a destiny of human space flight.
Metal has no DNA; machines have no genes. But which doesnt meant they dont have pedigrees ancestral lines each bit as elaborate as a own. Thats surely a box with a Ares 1 rocket. The most appropriate as good as smartest as good as coolest thing built in 2009 a machine which can launch human beings to cosmic destinations wed never deliberate before is a ripened offspring of a unequivocally aged family tree, a single with branches grand, ancestral as good as even wicked.
Read some-more during Time.com.
Heres to human spaceflight!
New Dinosaur Species May Be Missing Link
Australian paleontologists have detected three, competence be four, brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new dinosaur class during a puncture in Johannesburg, South Africa. The initial to be declared as good as researched is Aardonyx celestae. The rest have been still under study. What makes A. celestae so engaging is which it helps insist how a small of a beginning dinosaurs, two-legged herbivores good well known as prosauropods, evolved in to a largest creatures which ever walked Earth: a sauropods, four-legged creatures with prolonged necks as good as small heads which ripped leaflet off trees with their cavernous jaws. Its a single of a dinosaurs in a long, smeary continuum, pronounced a single researcher. It shows us what you should already have flattering most guessed, which was which expansion was a messy, difficult affair.
Scientists nonplus together newly detected dino bones
Butterflies in Space Aboard a ISS
In a plan good well known as Butterflies in Space, a Atlantis space convey will subsequent week lift a moth medium containing monarch as good as painted lady adults as good as larvae to a International Space Station. The suspicion is which thousands of school kids across a US will be means to investigate a behavior as good as hold up cycles of these small astronauts as they swell from a larvae theatre to full of tone butterflies in microgravity.The students will also be means to conduct their own open-ended investigations of a moth hold up cycle in a classroom. The children will be means to guard their swell via still as good as video images. This plan is only an additional way which NASA is aiming to move genuine space studies to kids around a country. More info during BioEd Online.
Check out a upon tip of livestream!
Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean
Researchers right divided confirm which a 35-mile difference in a desert of Ethiopia will likely turn a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ocean. The crack, twenty feet far-reaching in spots, non-stop in 2005 as good as a small geologists believed afterwards which it would spawn a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ocean. But which view was controversial, as good as a difference had not been good studied. A brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new investigate has suggested which a processes occurring during this difference have been nearly identical to those which occur during mid-ocean ridges upon a sea floor. Using newly gathered seismic interpretation from 2005, researchers reconstructed a event to uncover a difference tore open along a complete 35-mile length in only days. Dabbahu, a volcano during a northern finish of a rift, erupted first, afterwards magma pushed up by a middle of a difference area as good as began unzipping a difference in both directions. This is an incredible opportunity to investigate an extremely fast geologic routine in action.
Pic of a Week: Awesome Raw Cassini Image
The moon Rhea hangs similar to a pendant opposite Saturn as good as a rings. Amazingly, this is a tender picture loyal from Cassini; it has not been calibrated or enhanced in any way. This is art in a purest form as good as evidence of a unusual as good as lively beauty of a Saturn system, as good as acknowledgment of what an extraordinary booster Cassini is. This picture was taken upon Nov 08, 2009 as good as received upon Earth Nov 09, 2009. The camera was indicating toward Rhea during you estimate 1,874,061 kilometers away. Via Universe Today.
Video of a Week: Science in Hollywood by Carolyn Porco
Gadget of a Week: USS Enterprise ChandelierKinda Sucks?
At initial this sounds similar to a good idea, right? A USS Enterprise Chandelier? you would totally put which upon tip of my dining room table! Wait, is which what it looks like? Yeah, never mind. Its hapless which someone would come up with this good suspicion as good as afterwards lift it out utterly wrong. This is generally loyal in this sold box when their target market, hard-core trekkies, would never concede a name Enterprise to be trustworthy to such an abomination. Really, this thing doesnt even remotely look similar to a large E. Lets see, how shall you put this? THIS IS A DISASTER!
Really?!
#FollowFriday
If you have been upon Twitter, you know there have been plenty of extraordinary people out there tweeting away. And, most of them have been scientists! Every Friday Ill be bringing you a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new list of good scientists as good as techies to follow upon Twitter. This week
- @bioedonline: Follow a moth astronauts in to space!
- @apod: Each day a different picture or sketch of a erotically appealing universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a veteran astronomer.
- @KalofXeno: Scientist for THEMIS OPS studying Mars as good as zealous Sci-Fi fan
Science Quickies
Not enough scholarship for you? Heres a warp-speed look during a small some-more scholarship tid-bits which have been worth a look.
- New Zinc-air batteries guarantee some-more than 3x battery power than Li-ion
- Awesome tender images from brand brand brand new Cassini Enceladus flyby
- 3 telescopes mix for stunning chalky way photo
TrekMovies Science Friday is an homage a a good NPR radio uncover Science Friday. Science Friday is a purebred have make have use of of of mark of ScienceFriday Inc.
Comments
1. Greg Stamper - Nov 13, 2009Kayla,
Excellent roundup as always.
That craving lighting fixture is NOT cannon! Boo!
3. Captain Dunsel - Nov 13, 2009Thanks, Kayla!
Hmmm Butterflies. Thats not such a large deal. There have been butterflies upon flattering most EVERY mission in to space. Theyre only usually in a astronauts stomachs!
As distant as a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new sea entrance to Africa, a initial thing which popped in to my conduct was Crack in a World. (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/
4. CmdrR - Nov 13, 2009The craving candelabrum looks similar to it flew in from a 70s. It belongs in Greg Bradys swingin attic apartment.
3- Great movie!
I guess Im only as well dumb, though, to understand because geologists see a crack as good as immediately think sea, rather than Earths seared crust. Dunno. Come behind in a integrate of million as good as good finish this.
Thanks, Kayla!
5. zanzibar (wikiwackywoo upon Twitter) - Nov 13, 2009Seems similar to a SF Thursday is emerging, Fringe as good as Flash Forward upon final night, both of them superb epys. Both with Trekish connections, both right divided upon my A-List of dont skip TV as good as dont call me Thursdays during prime time.
V continues to suck visitor zucchini.
Waiting for W13 brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new season.
Have a good week finish everyone. Dont eat as well most prunes.
6. CarlG - Nov 13, 2009Wow. you cant hold people have been so dense about this 2012 thing which NASA has to stoop to acknowlege a existence. Way to fail, nutjobs.
The unequivocally droll thing is which theres a 2012 Lean a TRUTH!!! ad banner only upon tip of where a comments start. Oy.
That Cassini picture is unequivocally cool. Just a subject because have been probes still receiving photos in black as good as white? Is there a reason which they dont send up probes with tone cameras?
7. JJ Savard - Nov 13, 2009I would contend which a Enterprise (and you have make have use of of of a name loosely) candelabrum looks distant some-more similar to a Klingon D-7 with a disc during a end
8. Greg Stamper - Nov 13, 2009Take a time to watch a Carolyn Porco vid a excellent.
9. Capt Mike of a Terran Empire - Nov 13, 2009That Ship is NOT!!! CANON!!!!! You meant which upon Dec 21st of 2012 which you will not all DIE!!!! a Horrible as good as painfull Death. Pheeew. you suspicion you was a Gonner there for a moment. Hey Waiter. sick have a Cheese Burger as good as Fries as good as a small Moon Water to rinse it down. Yum Yum!.
10. CarlG - Nov 13, 2009I wish a refreshing bottle of Moon Water (TM)!
It would be a idealisation status drink. :)
Just fix a craving light, get fiery bulbs during a end, as good as melt a front off, so it looks similar to a falling out of a sky out of control!
12. PJ - Nov 13, 2009kinda looks similar to a kids paper version of an akira class. unequivocally random, though have been there any other troops mass departure fans who check out this site? i cant be a only one. Semper Fi oorah!
13. John Gill - Nov 13, 2009That candelabrum cant be a genuine product, you can not move myself to hold someone would try to marketplace something similar to that!
14. Kurt - Nov 13, 20092012- The Mayans never pronounced 2012. NEVER. The REAL Mayan finish date is essentially a duration of Oct 2007- 2015. Not a DATE though a time period. And a not a finish a essentially a change in consciousness. Will there be things happening? Already is! We have been upon a corner of a full mercantile collapse, amicable structures have been changing, there is a galactic change brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new energies entrance it which will means earth changes. though NOT similar to a Hollywood crap!
BTW, never attend to anything NASA says. They have lied for a final 40 years! NASA Never A Straight Answer!
Ok, you am finished venting! HAHAHA
15. Tyler - Nov 13, 2009#6
NASA cameras have make have use of of of a set of filters for different wavelengths of light. They usually have filters for red, green, blue, as good as a integrate in a infrared. When they wish to take a tone photo, they take 3 shots with a red, green, as good as blue filters as good as afterwards mix them after theyve been sent behind to earth. When they take pictures in a infrared, infrequently they supplement false color. Since this is a tender image, they didnt do any of which post-processing yet.
16. dmduncan - Nov 13, 2009Whoever invented which Enterprise candelabrum should be made to wear a Cone of Shame.
17. Gogastazio - Nov 13, 2009Or put in an agony booth,
18. Trekluver - Nov 13, 2009This sounds only similar to a move! Government builds large ships as good as tells a worlds a a lie? Wow a comeing true! Personnally you dont have an oppinion, something competence occur in 2012 though you dont know. People suspicion The Day After Tomorrow was a prophetic movie as well as good as no such thing has hapened so good see.
19. Commodore Kor'Tar - Nov 13, 2009Looks similar to which chandeler was written by monkeys!
Wait, thats an insult to monkeys , so you contend it was written by Romulans as good as peddled by Ferengi !
20. fansince66 - Nov 13, 2009Yeah.The universe wont finish in 2012,but a WAY a organized(ie. monetarism,free marketeering,globalization,etc)may come to an end,at about which time.
21. CarlG - Nov 13, 2009@5: Ah, ok. Thanks. :)
@14: Please, flattering please, discuss it me youre joking, right? Right?
22. Bill Peters - Nov 13, 2009Love it #19 you Thought it looked a small similar to a D7 though which competence be a insult to a D7!
23. Bill Peters - Nov 13, 2009I think they dont send up Color Cameras behind in a day because they were as well Expensive as good as who wants to lose a $1000 Color Camera to Deep Space because you know Klingons have been starting to have make have use of of of a aged Satellites for canon shooting Practice!!
24. MrRegular - Nov 13, 2009Apocalyptic scenarios as good as date creation have been starting upon for centuries, in most cases to prove a legitimacy of a outlook of those who have such claims.
In a 1950s a noted preacher preached which a fight with Communism was a sure sign of a finish times.
Didnt happen.
In a 1980s a organisation of psychics foresee 2000 would embody a stick change as good as a Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as highlights of which year.
Didnt happen.
The enterprise of a finish times is partial of a religious subconscious of man, as good as should be deliberate accordingly.
As most as you similar to each step in to space you cant see a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new feat in a ARES space station as good as spacecraft. The space station is made of aged Shuttle space station record as good as is right divided declared safer than ever. But what caused a Challenger explosion??? The plain space station booster.
Plus: They tag an blown-up Apollo plug upon tip transfer 30 years of convey knowledge down a toilet. Granted a Shuttle had most problems though because not sense from it to build a newer as good as better booster similar to a now-stopped Venture Star.
Honestly: NASA has prolonged lost a corner over a competitors. With a plug based booster theyre en par with Russia, Europe a ATV only needs a small seats in it as good as will afterwards be called CTV, China.
On a 2012 scare: Even if there will be a earthwide catastrophe someday similar to a comet blast or outbreak of a super-vulcano Earth will not go boom. Earth will still be there you human competition would be wiped out though Earth will still be there.
26. Lord Ravenwood - Nov 14, 2009Gadget of a Week: USS Enterprise ChandelierKinda Sucks!
THIS IS A DISASTER!
Same thing you all pronounced when you saw JJ Abrams Enterprise for a initial time, huh?
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