Category Archives: Earth

Natural Disaster Watch

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin

We offer links to disaster information and have a large archive of astronomy articles for our readers. There is a quick over view of a disaster map in the video listed below: Watch this quick video for more information: //

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ESA’s Envisat Is Watching Eyjafjallajoekull Erupt

Posted on April 30, 2010 by admin

Over the last several days, the world has been given a small glimpse of the power of nature on a planetary scale.  The Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano in Iceland, which had not erupted since 1821, has suddenly awakened from its sleep and … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Hubble: 20 Years of Great Astronomy

Posted on April 21, 2010 by admin

In a few days, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will be 20 years old. Birthdays are a good time for looking back, and this is no exception. The Hubble telescope has provided us with so much good science and so many … Continue reading →

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ESA Launches Cryosat-2 on a Mission to Study Earth’s Ice

Posted on April 16, 2010 by admin

The European Space Agency launched its CryoSat-2 satellite today (April 8, 2010), thus completing the third phase of its Earth Explorer Series.  The satellite will give us our best picture yet of the effects of global warming on Earth’s ice, … Continue reading →

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Exploration of Mercury Will Continue With the Bepicolombo Probe

Posted on February 24, 2010 by admin

This is our second article about the exploration of Mercury.  In the first, we looked at NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which will go into orbit around Mercury in 2011, and is already returning useful data.  In this one, we will look … Continue reading →

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