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Image: Aurora Australis Observed from the International Space Station

(PhysOrg.com) -- Among the views of Earth afforded astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), surely one of the most spectacular is of the aurora. These ever-shifting displays of colored ribbons, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dome away from home

After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was deconstructed this austral summer.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Earth from Space: Icebreaker event

(PhysOrg.com) -- This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

(PhysOrg.com) -- This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

NASA Lunar Satellite Begins Detailed Mapping of Moon's South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Doctor in 1999 South Pole rescue dies in Mass.

(AP) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June

A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)

What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 8

Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues

(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Disabled Spanish athletes reach South Pole: report

Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4


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