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Cluster Examines Earth-Escaping Ions (SpaceDaily) by Staff Writers Paris, France (ESA) Aug 29, 2008 Oxygen ions are constantly escaping from the Earth's upper atmosphere through the magnetic polar caps. This has long been observed but the underlying mechanism has eluded scientists - until now. Rumor: New iTunes Visualizer will be the Stunning Magnetosphere [ITunes] (Gizmodo) According to rumors, the new iTunes 8 presumably coming next week at the Apple "Let Us Rock" event will come with some beautiful new visualizations. Now, new rumors say that the new visualizations... Paul Doyle on Kevin Keegan's departure from Newcastle (Guardian Unlimited) The real culprit for the latest fiasco to engulf St James's Park is not Kevin Keegan, but club owner Mike Ashley, says Paul Doyle NSF Taps Tiny CubeSats for Big Space Science (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News) GOLDEN, Colo. ? The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a program to use tiny CubeSats for science missions dedicated to space weather and atmospheric research. Another year, another iPod - and maybe a surprise (TG Daily) You know something is up when Apple?s PR team urges journalists to attend tomorrow's iPod event, pitching it as the "big deal." If we believe the blogosphere, then there aren?t many surprises left. We are expecting more storage space for iPods and price cuts. There will be the obligatory redesigns for the Nano and the Touch and perhaps a couple new features for some models. iTunes 8 will debut ... ASTID Funds 15 New Projects (SpaceRef) Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) Program this summer approved 15 proposals for funding, including mission concept studies and concept studies for small payloads and satellites. IBM finalises petascale HPC system contract (The Inquirer) IBM HAS NAILED DOWN the US contract for a 200,000 CPU-core supercomputer named Blue Waters to be built for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois, which will run at a sustained one petaflops. Earth's Atmosphere is Leaking into Space (Universe Today) Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth?s atmosphere and into space. Measurements taken by satellites during the 1980s and 1990s showed the escaping ions were traveling faster the higher they were observed. This implied that some sort of acceleration mechanism was involved. Now, new work on data collected by a group [...] Still Mythbusting (Universe Today) It seems fitting that today's NASA's "Image of the Day" is this wonderful image of the lunar lander from the Apollo 11 mission, the Eagle, on its way to land on the moon. Really, truthfully, can anyone really believe that a spectacular image like this can be fake? After last night's "Mythbusters" show [...] Saturn Moons Sport Rings, Too (Discovery Channel) Two of Saturn's smallest moons are circled by faint rings of their own. |
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