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nasa has the deets (via space weather).

Some of you humans may recall various stories and snippets that ran recently about former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, who has been saying for years that aliens in fact do exist. The Discovery Channel had a good chat with him on their blogs recently. Or perhaps you’ve seen [...]

The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) is a 1400-lb., double-wide refrigerator-sized hunk o junk that was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007. At the time, the castaway was in a high orbit and barely visible from Earth’s surface.
Not anymore: Twelve months later, with its orbit decaying, the EAS has become easy [...]

animation spans satellite images from june 23 through the 27th. includes the fires in northern california, meltwater along the nw coast (and possibly a phytoplankton bloom?), the puget sound and vancouver, bc.
Images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC

NPR might think they can corner the market on science with their paltry, particle-deficient Science Friday’s, so it’s time to heat up the particle-accelerator and collide their sham…with a new one! We’re taking it to the next level: the very next day. Introducing Science Saturdays. Get your subatomic particles off on that, NPR! I’m also [...]

from the phoenix mission