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Ozone Depletion Crisis Not Yet Over (Environment News Service) - 114 weeks ago

NEW DELHI, India , October 27, 2006 (ENS) - The Montreal Protocol, signed almost 20 years ago to curb ozone depleting chemicals, has been successful but that does not mean the Earth's ozone layer is safe yet, according to the organizers of an international conference beginning in New Delhi next week.

U.S. space probes launched to capture 3-D sun image (Reuters) - 114 weeks ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday carrying a pair of solar probes to track potentially disruptive solar storms.

Successful Liftoff for NASA’s STEREO Spacecraft (Universe Today) - 114 weeks ago

Delta II rocket with STEREO spacecraft. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge NASA's solar-observing STEREO spacecraft were carried into space Wednesday evening, atop a Boeing Delta II rocket. STEREO, aka the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, are two nearly identical observatories that will help construct 3-dimensional views of the Sun and its stormy environment. Over the next few

A Growing Intelligence around Earth (AstroInfo) - 114 weeks ago

Quelle: Science @ NASA

Two eyes to keep watch on sun 'burps' (The Age) - 114 weeks ago

NASA has launched twin solar observatories in a two-year mission to study the sun's eruptions and their impact on Earth. -

NASA launches STEREO mission to study sun in 3-D (AFP via Yahoo! News) - 114 weeks ago

NASA launched twin solar observatories in a two-year STEREO mission to study the sun's eruptions and their impact on Earth, the US space agency's television channel showed.

It Took More than an Asteroid to Kill the Dinosaurs (Universe Today) - 114 weeks ago

Satellite view of the Chicxulub impact site. Image credit: NASA/JPL Click to enlarge How did the dinosaurs die? It's a question scientists have been trying to figure out since their fossils were first discovered. Most believe that it was a giant asteroid that stuck the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, and ended the dinosaurs' reign on Earth. But evidence is mounting that the

One earth, three planets' worth of damage (The Scotsman) - 115 weeks ago

BRITAIN is living a "three-planet lifestyle", consuming resources at triple the rate the Earth can renew them, according to wildlife campaigners.

The first photo from space (USA Today) - 115 weeks ago

Sixty years ago today, a camera aboard a V-2 missile took the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. The November issue of Smithsonian Air Space magazine has a feature about the photo, which was captured by a 35-millimeter...

Google Earth Gets Political (Addict 3D) - 115 weeks ago

Google today announced a Google Earth 2006 Elections Special layer for their popular satellite mapping product. Google Earth product manager Chikai Ohazama told internetnews.com the new KML (Keyhole Markup Language) layer will draw lines for each different Congressional district.