Thursday, April 11, 2013

[Science] It's Fall on Titan: Icy Cloud Marks Saturn Moon's Season

It's Fall on Titan: Icy Cloud Marks Saturn Moon's Season
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2013/04/investigating-titan%E2%80%99s-complex-chemistry
Images and data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that an icy cloud is growing over the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hinting that a seven-year fall has taken hold on the celestial body's southern hemisphere.

Report: Global Warming Didn't Cause Big US Drought
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-global-warming-big-us-drought-18935451
Share. 0. Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds.

Global warming may not be happening on the surface, but the oceans are warm
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/global-warming-may-not-be-happening-on-the-surface-but-the-oceans-are-warm/
The debate over global warming and climate change has reached a fever pitch in recent years as both climate scientists and their skeptics have tried to prove one side right over the other, although scientific research heavily favors the former.

NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-132
Could This Be the Mars Soviet 3 Lander? This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 lander, seen in a pair of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars ...

CREDIT: This is a modified version of an original image, credited to NASA/JPL ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/22112541
It's raining on Saturn, and the giant planet's amazing rings are apparently the cause, scientists say. A new study unveiled today has found that erosion from particles making up the icy rings of Saturn are forming rain water that falls on certain parts of the planet.

The Dark Lightning Threat - AVweb
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/dark_lightning_threat_pilot_radiation_aircraft_208485-1.html
Florida Institute of Technology researchers say that a silent phenomenon called dark lightning can silently deliver to pilots and passengers high doses of ionizing radiation in one sudden burst.

Will the Great Lakes Rise Again?
http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-The-Green-Page-s-17659.114136-107480.114136-Will-the-Great-Lakes-Rise-Again.html
No single solution is going to fix our low lake level problem. We could build structures to slow water flowing from Lakes Michigan and Huron into Lake Erie, or dredge harbors again and again, but those would only bandage the gaping wound.



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