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How the Space Stations sees Earth-Pictures.
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12 Feb 2010
Another moon may be home to life
Space scientists have found clues that a fresh place in the solar system may be home to life. They analysed ice volcanoes on a moon of Saturn called Enceladus and discovered powerful new evidence for liquid water beneath its surface. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew through the icy plumes and detected negatively charged water molecules – a clear sign that there is an underground sea.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=another-moon-may-be-home-to-life-2010-02&sc=CAT_SPC_20100211
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12 Feb 2010
Space Shuttle Blasts off.
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“What a beautiful launch we had this morning… the orbiter performed extremely well,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, during the STS-130 postlaunch news conference. “This is a great start to a very complicated mission.”

Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency director general, thanked NASA, the crew and the ground teams for “a very beautiful launch.” Dordain said, “It was an important event. Even more important for us because the shuttle was full of European hardware.”
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
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8 Feb 2010
Hubble zooms in on space crash-Images.
Hubble zeroes in crash.

Another shot crash.

Asteroid crash.

Astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to get a close-up view of a remarkable head-on crash between two asteroids. The giant space rocks created a spectacular trail of debris as they collided at 11,000mph – five times the speed of a rifle bullet – between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hubble-zooms-in-on-space-crash-2010-02&sc=CAT_SPC_20100205
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7 Feb 2010
Mysterious Space Object Rocks the Web
Something is hurtling toward the planet. And we say “something” because neither we, nor anybody in the scientific field, seems to know exactly what it is.

The buzz surrounding this mysterious object has inspired a slew of searches and no shortage of articles. A piece from MSNBC notes that, according to scientists, the object will “fly by Earth at a distance of just 80,000 miles.” That’s about a third of the distance to the Moon. In terms of outerspace, that’s not all that far.

Size-wise, the object (formally known as “2010 AL30”) is only about 33-50 feet wide. According to NASA, even if 2010 AL30 did hit Earth, it wouldn’t cause much damage. That’s comforting, but what is it? An asteroid? Man-made space junk? Mork in his eggish space ship?

We have no idea, but folks with telescopes who live out West might be able to catch a glimpse when it roars past Earth at around 7:47 a.m. EST on Wednesday. We’ll be sleeping, but please wave to it for us.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93309/;_ylt=AtGkF71i7Dyxm224GcU7YzdzfNdF
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13 Jan 2010