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Planetary scientist, John Lewis, estimated that if all of the total platinum wealth in the asteroid belt were divided amongst every person on Earth, each-- individual's-- share would come out to be over $30 billion. Furthermore, he estimated that if the total value of resources of the asteroids: i...
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On August 25, 2003, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope launched in to space and history by providing the world with the deepest infrared observations ever taken.
Four days after its launch the telescope opened its infrared eyes for the first time and immediately performed beyond all expectation...
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Mount Sakurajima, in southern Japan, has erupted at 08:30 GMT, (5:30 pm local time), on Wednesday. According to the Japanese Weather Agency, ash was blown 1,000 metres into the air. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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Sprite
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Giant Natural Particle Accelerator Above Thunderclouds A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 km above the surface of the Earth. On Wednesday 14th April Dr. Martin Fullekrug will present his ne...
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Palmer Land
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Antarctic Peninsula ice more stable than previously thought An international team of researchers, led by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds, is the first to map the change in ice speed. The team collated measurements recorded by five different satellites...
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Kick‘em Jenny
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This week, researchers will begin direct monitoring of the rumblings of a submarine volcano in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea. On May 6, a team of scientists led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) installed a new underwater earthquake monitoring system on top of Kickem Jenny, a v...
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Urumqi's No.1 Glacier
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World's closest glacier to a city continues to shrink The world's closest glacier to a city shrank quickly in the past year and may completely vanish in half a century, according to a Chinese scientist Saturday. In the last 12 months, the east and west stretches of Glacier No. 1 in the Tianshan Mountai...
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Iceland Deep Drilling Project
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Iceland Geothermal Project Completes Deep Drilling In Volcano Earlier this year the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) at the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland completed drilling at a depth of 4.659 kilometers where it recorded temperatures of 427 degrees Celsius The drilling, which began in Au...
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Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms
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New atlas provides highest-resolution imagery of the Polar Regions seafloor The most comprehensive and high-resolution atlas of the seafloor of both Polar Regions is presented this week (Tuesday 25 April) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) in Vienna. Over 250 marine geol...
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Planet Hunters project
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Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org. Planet Hu...
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck under the sea off New Zealand's North Island on Wednesday.
The quake occurred at 00:46 GMT at a depth of 320 km. Officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami.
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New insights into what might trigger the eruption of Mount St Helens and other potentially explosive volcanoes are reported today in Nature by scientists working at the University of Bristol, UK.
Professor Jon Blundy and colleagues show that as magmas crystallise they heat up rather than coo...
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The tomb robbers have led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid.
The mud-brick and limestone tombs date back more than 4,000 years to the 5th Dynasty were meant to house a chief dentist, Iy...
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Mount Yasur
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Scientists are warning airlines and tourists of the danger of ash and volcanic rocks erupting from Mt Yasur on Vanuatu's Tanna island. Wellingtons Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre has reported an ash cloud covering 100 nautical square miles and more than 1.8 kilometres high within the volcano's vici...
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ESTEC
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Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander yesterday officially opened the new laboratory building at ESA's space research and technology centre, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The Prince and other guests were impressed with the state-of-the-art facilities, including the Propulsion Lab an...
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