Checkout this NASA video on You tube about how you can see Mercuryonce the sky clears after winter blizzard Nimo.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=117lEleTeiY&feature=em-uploademail&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D117lEleTeiY%26feature%3Dem-uploademail And this is just the start!
Hubble telescope finding: http://huff.to/Xw0BWa New primate: http://bit.ly/UUOHCU Stem cells from urine: http://bit.ly/TTSjsl Gene manipulation: http://bit.ly/12iz8wc Geminid meteor shower: http://bbc.in/Y9HtlK Imagine you're a bird rooting around for food on the floor of the rainforest, when suddenly you come face to face with one of these beady pairs of eyes. If it were a snake, you'd be dinner. In these circumstances, most birds fly off in flight which is rather fortunate for the true owner of the eyes - the rear ends of various kinds of rainforest caterpillars. This isn't unique to the caterpillars either - many animals have false eye spots, either to frighten away predators or to distract attention from their true eyes, which are usually a vulnerable point. NASA has released a free e-book titled "Earth As Art". It's full of stunning photographs and fascinating information, download the pdf here: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/703154main_earth_art-ebook.pdf Megalodon has long been a favourite of horror movie writers - but how big was it really? Well, its size has certainly been exaggerated but this thing was still pretty darn big. They lived between 28 and 1.5 million years ago, and are widely regarded as one of the most powerful predators in vertebrate history. This graphic should give you a good idea of both conservative and maximum estimated sizes of Megalodon compared to a humans and modern shark species - as you can see, even if the conservative estimate were correct one of these things could quite happily have swallowed you whole. The green shark in this image, Carcharodon carcharias is better known as the great white shark. Rhincodon typus is whale shark, a slow moving filter feeder. A 14-year-old New York student was named "America's Top Young Scientist" for inventing a solar-powered water jug that changes dirty water into purified drinking water. Images from the European Space Agency's Proba-2 satellite captured the moon sweeping across the sun during a solar eclipse on Nov. 13. Proba-2's ultraviolet camera was trained right on the sun during the eclipse, resulting in awesome footage of solar storms, sunspots and other solar weather as the moon glided across. Although parts of the southern hemisphere witnessed a total solar eclipse -- in which the moon entirely blocked out the sun -- the satellite's vantage point captured the event as three partial eclipses. This isn't the first eclipse to occur in 2012. In May, an annular solar eclipse was visible in East Asia and across the western United States. The eclipse blocked about 94 percent of the sun, producing a brilliant "ring of fire" effect. Tuesday's eclipse was a rarer event, and more than 50,000 people gathered in northern Australia to watch. Read MORE @: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/solar-eclipse-from-space-2012-video_n_2131498.html |
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