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BP reattaches cap, but oil closes Florida beachesNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 24, 2010 BP resumed full siphoning operations from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday, but Florida was forced to close down popular tourist beaches at the height of the summer season as more crude washed ashore. The vast slick has already soiled the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but could spell disaster for Florida, one of the world's top tourist destinations with more than 80 million visitors a year. The state's 1,260 miles (2,000 kilometers) of western coastline is home ... read more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2010When it comes to where extraterrestrial life might dwell in our own solar system, Jupiter's moon Europa often grabs the spotlight. However, its extraordinarily volcanic sibling Io might be a possible habitat as well. A bit larger than Earth's moon, Io is the innermost of Jupiter's large satellites and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of matter rising up to ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 11, 2010In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn't be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of the moon, with the sun just beneath the horizon right before orbital "sunrise," Eugene Cernan prepared to make observations of sunlight scattered by the sun's thin outer atmosphere and interplanetary dust from comets and collis ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 11, 2010Yesterday in Paris, ESA's Herschel and Planck science missions were honoured by the French Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics. The association's Grand Prix 2010 award for "outstanding space endeavours" was bestowed upon these groundbreaking missions. Every year, the French Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAAF) dedicates awards to those who have demonstrated true suc ... more |
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Man-Made Aurora To Help Predict Space WeatherPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2010 For more than 25 years, our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions about how nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, reacts when it collides with electrons produced by energetic ultraviolet sunlight and "solar wind." New research published today, Tuesday 8 June, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics describes how scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute ... read more |
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