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Aug
27
2010

Chilean government sought the help of NASA for its rescue operation

Four experts from the U.S. space agency, NASA will come to Chile to participate in the relief of the 33 miners trapped for 21 days at 700 m depth in the mine copper and gold San Jose (north), On Thursday the Chilean Minister of Health, Jaime Manalich informed.
“The experts will arrive in Chile Sunday [...]

Aug
8
2010

“Ice Island” broke free from Petermann Glacier !

A giant iceberg which has a size 4 times the area of Manhattan broke free from a glacier in northwest Greenland, said Professor Andreas Muenchow, a scientist at the University of Delaware (USA).

He recalled that the last time you fell off an iceberg of this size in the Arctic back to the year 1962.Scientists [...]

Jul
17
2010

Mona Lisa’s mysteries finally solved, well almost

It’s taken scientists more than 400 years to come up with technology to figure out the secret behind the works of the genius Leonardo de Vinci. How the great painter did use rudimentary pigments in the year 1503 to create such subtle shadows and light on the mysterious woman’s face in the Mona Lisa. Such [...]

Jul
16
2010

Mercury has magnetic storms and young volcanoes :Study reveals

The final flyby of MESSENGER (Mercury Surface Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) has revealed surprisingly intense electromagnetic storms in Mercury’s magnetic “tail,” part of the planets magnetic field.
The details of the findings of the probe were published as three papers on the journal Science on July 15th.
The planet experiences much intense storms and magnetic disturbances [...]

Jul
12
2010

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2010 JULY 11:NASA GUIDE FOR YOU !

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2010 JULY 11:On Chile’s Easter Island thousands of astronomy enthusiastic gathered and witnessed together the Total Blackout which was the solar system’s most awe-inspiring sights. A halo of light is seen from Easter Island as the sun is covered by the moon during the eclipse. The astronomy enthusiastic [...]

Jul
5
2010

Mental composition of Moon and Earth are similar: Scientists reveals

Researchers working with a second Japanese artificial lunar satellite, “Kaguya”, discovered the mineral olivine, which is most prevalent in the mantle, emerging to the surface in some parts of the lunar surface. These sites form a concentric shape, located on the edges of the larger lunar craters.
Scientists believe that they were formed during the collision [...]

Jun
29
2010

Google celebrates the 110th birth anniversary of Saint Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of the Little Prince, completed his 110 years today. Google is celebrating the event with Doodle having colors of famous philosophical tale.

Released in 1943, The Little Prince is the culmination of his career. Children’s philosophical tale appearances, the allegories allow him to criticize the behavior absurd “the great people and society [...]

Jun
26
2010

iPhone4 long lines and fear of insufficient supplies

After the great success of ipad now iphone 4 is booming since it sales which has been started from June 24th.The Iphone 4 has now reached to many countries. Thousands of people have lined up in front of shops to compete for the new model:.
Here we are in New York on Fifth Avenue, where the [...]

Jun
26
2010

Big Lunar Eclipse on June 26th: In-depth details

The year 2010 is very unique; NASA has already informed the astrology and astronomy enthusiastic and to all the people who want to see the “Big Lunar Eclipse”. This eclipse should be visible for the United States around 1:17am Indianapolis time Saturday morning.
NASA reports that “The eclipse begins at 3:17 am PDT (10:17 UT) [...]

Jun
10
2010

Major setback to South Korean space program

A South Korean rocket Naro-1 that was supposed to put a scientific satellite into orbit crashed after just over two minutes of flight, This is the second failure of this kind last year also it was happened in South Korea. South Korea had spent $400m on this high-risk mission and the objective behind this was [...]