A British Airways Pilot Took This Amazing Photo Of A Spacecraft Returning To...
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Olympic torch returned to Earth on Monday, and a British Airways pilot was in the perfect place to snap a shot of it shortly before it landed in Kazakhstan. Captain...
View ArticleNASA releases new photo of Saturn, Earth
NASA has given the people of Earth a rare treat: A color mosaic that captures not only Saturn, but also the tiny dots of Earth and other planets in the background. The panorama, released Tuesday, was...
View ArticleInnovation Earth: Reinventing The Wheel... Er, Tire
If there's one prediction I can make about our future world, it is this: There will be a lot of tires. The latest forecast puts 1.7 billion cars on the road by 2035; assuming that three-wheeled-cars...
View ArticleWaPo Lectures: Thanksgiving Kills Mother Earth
In what reads like something a satirist would compose to mock the hypocritical killjoys who infect the gaping wound that is the environmental movement, the Washington Post's Brian Palmer devotes...
View ArticleGerman Aerospace Center Deploys Scality RING To Power Mission-critical...
Scality RING provides Germany's Earth Observation Center with support for unlimited storage growth, high IOPS and access to both traditional file systems and cloud storage resources via CDMI. San...
View ArticleGoogle Earth maps forest change
Google-Earth-maps-forest.jpg Another high-determination worldwide gain of woods or forest misfortune and addition has been made with the assistance of Google Earth."This is the first guide of woods...
View ArticleSearching for Earth 2.0
One in every five sunlike stars in the Milky Way may have an Earth-sized planet circling it in the Goldilocks zone--the sweet spot where liquid water could exist. That's according to a new analysis of...
View ArticleGoogle Earth maps deforestation
Google-Earth-maps.jpg Another high-determination worldwide guide of backwoods misfortune and addition has been made with the assistance of Google Earth. The intelligent online device is freely...
View ArticleRadiation Hazards Of Deep Space Travel Quantified By Researchers
*April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Comprehensive findings on space-based radiation as measured by a detector aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have been published by...
View ArticleThe evolution of the Earth's atmosphere
Teaser An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of the Earth's atmosphere of the last 220 million years by analyzing modern and...
View ArticleNew Google Earth map shows forest cover changes
Google-Earth-Engine-Forest.png Specialists from the University of Maryland, with the assistance of Google Earth Engine, have made another high-determination intuitive guide indicating later changes in...
View ArticleWhite Earth members vote on blood quantum rule
ST. PAUL, Minn.—The White Earth Band of Ojibwe is voting on whether to scrap a rule that says tribal membership is based on blood. Reported by TwinCities.com 2 days ago.
View ArticleHow To Travel Through Middle Earth (IMAGES)
Fans of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films know the trilogy was filmed in New Zealand. Towns such as Matamata, just a two-hour drive Southeast of Auckland, have become permanent tourist...
View ArticleWatch New Middle-earth is Closer Than You Think Video from Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand landed a viral internet hit with their Hobbit themed commercial in 2012. Today Air New Zealand released another ad titled Middle-earth is Closer Than You Think. It is about Air......
View ArticleGalileo said the Earth was round, and this dock and app uses your iPhone to...
Creating 360-degree panoramas is a cinch on your iPhone if you have a Galileo robotic dock and a free app from Sphere. The dock automatically pans and tilts your iPhone to capture the view all around...
View ArticleCan Earth Handle Its Projected Population of 11 Billion People?
The human population is exploding. Earlier this year, the United Nations released a new report that said the global population was on pace to reach 11 billion people by the end of the century — a full...
View ArticleEarth Balance Launches 4th Annual Holiday Bake-Off
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Balance today announced its 4th Annual Holiday Bake-Off competition, to take place from November 18-December 22, 2013 at...
View ArticleForbes' Part In Closing Down A Rare Earth Investment Scam
Interesting news from London today in that the FCA has just closed down a boiler house operation that pushed a rare earth investment scam. And one of the things that's interesting about this particular...
View ArticleNOAA Solar Irradiance Instrument Reaches Earth's Orbit
On Tuesday, November 19, the US Air Force launched its Space Test Program Satellite-3 (STPSat-3) into low-Earth orbit. Takeoff occurred from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, on Wallops Island,...
View ArticleVideo: Astronaut Karen Nyberg discusses readjusting to life on Earth
Astronaut Karen Nyberg is back on Earth after living and working on the International Space Station since May. The experience, she says, was a dream-come-true, but it meant leaving her husband and...
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