Earth Strikes a Pose Beneath Saturn's Rings
The Cassini spacecraft took a day off from exploring Saturn's rings and weather patterns to snap a photo of Earth. Like Voyager 1 revealed in 1990 when it took a photo of the planet from the edge of...
View ArticleCassini Spacecraft Snaps Photo of Earth from Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured some rare images of Earth and its moon as seen from Saturn, about 1.5 billion kilometers away. The photos were taken on July 19, with the Earth appearing as a...
View ArticleEarth: Saturn, Mercury Spacecraft and Probe Take Amazing Photos of Earth and...
The Earth has been shown from Saturn and Mercury in some amazing photos from the Cassini spacecraft and the Messenger probe respectively. Reported by Christian Post 21 hours ago.
View ArticleNASA's Cassini Spacecraft Snaps A Picture Of Earth From Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft managed to capture this stunning view of the Earth from behind Saturn's magnificent rings. Reported by Forbes.com 10 hours ago.
View ArticleEarth From Saturn, Mercury as Seen in Photos Is NASA Space PR
From Saturn, Earth looks like blue dot in distant space well beyond the huge planet's famous rings, but NASA is hoping that photo along with another shot from Mercury can boost interest in space....
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Travis Goodspeed's Blog: Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
External image: At Black Hat DC in 2008, I watched Adam Laurie present a tool for mapping Ku-band satellite downlinks, which he has since rewritten as Satmap. His technique involves using an DVB-S card...
View ArticleReport: Purple bacteria on Earth could survive alien light
Purple bacteria contain pigments that allow them to use sunlight as their source of energy, hence their color. Small as they are, these microbes can teach us a lot about life on Earth, because they...
View ArticleNASA Releases Images Of Earth Taken By Distant Spacecraft
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from...
View ArticleScientists show off Earth and moon, as seen from Saturn and Mercury
The imaging teams for NASA's missions to Saturn and Mercury are showing off new views of Earth and the moon, seen as mere points of light against the blackness of space. Reported by msnbc.com 3 days ago.
View Article11% After Earth
After Earth is dull, ploddingly paced exercise in sentimental sci-fi -- and the latest setback for director M. Night Shyamalan's once-promising career. Reported by Rotten Tomatoes 3 days ago.
View ArticleAP: US 'Could Be Sitting on a Gold Mine' of Rare Earth Elements
Valuable rare earth elements could be in plain sight in piles of rubble cast aside from old gold, silver and copper mines, according to The Associate Press. Reported by Newsmax 2 days ago.
View ArticleTom Engelhardt: The Dreamless Night of Planet Earth
*Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com* An essay by Ira Chernus on the rare subject of "political dreaming in the twenty-first century" reminds us that there's one historical reality worth considering in...
View ArticleRare Earth Metals (Lanthanum, Cerium, Neodymium, Europium, Yttrium, Scandium,...
DUBLIN, July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qbznms/rare_earth_metals) has announced the addition of the "Rare Earth Metals (Lanthanum, Cerium,...
View ArticleEarth: Saturn, Mercury Vantage Points Show Our Planet in NASA Photos
Images of the Earth from Saturn and Mercury have been released by NASA showing a small, glowing bluish dot orbited by a grey moon billions of miles away. Reported by Newsmax 3 days ago.
View ArticleNASA's Cassini photographs Earth with Saturn
On Friday as NASA's Cassini spacecraft beamed back magnificent images of Saturn overlooking a sparkling grain-sized Earth some thousands of Earthlings stood on their tiptoes and waved for the camera....
View ArticleNukeMap3D brings nuclear apocalypse to Google Earth
A nuclear fallout simulator for Google Earth offers a sobering reminder of the power of atomic bombs, both historical and modern. [Read more] Reported by CNET News.com 3 days ago.
View ArticleCassini Snaps Earth's Picture From Out Beyond Saturn
A rare photo op allowed the Cassini spacecraft to take a panorama of Earth and Moon alongside a backlit Saturn and its rings. Reported by PCMag.com 3 days ago.
View ArticleNASA Uses Photo Of Earth From Saturn To Boost Space Interest
On July 19, a spacecraft nearly 900 million miles from Earth took a color picture of our planet. NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped the picture from orbit around Saturn. Now scientists have finished...
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Photos: What Earth Looks Like from 900 Million Miles Away
Patch La Canada Flintridge, CA -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles Reported by Patch 3 days ago.
View ArticleNASA's Cassini Spacecraft Snaps A Picture Of Earth From Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft managed to capture this stunning view of the Earth from behind Saturn's magnificent rings. Reported by Forbes.com 3 days ago.
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