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POPSPoor Little Pluto Pluto is mostly brown. This picture captures the true colors of Pluto as well as the highest surface resolution so far recovered. No spacecraft has yet visited this most distant dwarf planet in our Solar System. The above map was created by tracking brightness changes from Earth of Pluto during times when it was being partially eclipsed by its moon Charon. The map therefore shows the hemisphere of Pluto that faces Charon. Pluto's brown color is thought dominated by frozen methane deposits metamorphosed by faint but energetic sunlight. The dark band below Pluto's equator is seen to have rather complex coloring, however, indicating that some unknown mechanisms may have affected Pluto's surface.
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POPSSolar System Dented, Not Round The "bottom" of the egg is flattened by a permanent clash of particles, as the outbound solar wind smashes into atomic debris hurtling in from interstellar space, the scientists theorize. Voyager 2 also crossed the "termination shock" several times within the space of a single day, showing that the boundary is in perpetual flux, like the ebb-and-flow of a tide.
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POPSArthur C. Clarke's Alien Monolith I do not claim the veracity of this story... I always repeat my Mantra: "I am a Collector of Curiosities..." Well, this struck me as few things could as definitively Curious. If anyone has seen hard evidence (like NASA site photos) then let me know right now I will say it is interesting..
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POPSsolar system I feel like I'm out in the solar system right now...floating without a safety harness
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POPSSmall Portable Solar and Wind Power Generators The home of this gadget is a windmill like casing that will attract wind as you walk or bike your way around town. A small battery pack is included and it can take in and house 1200mAh of electricity and power. This new energy will be recharged by the wind or solar power as you move.
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POPSSuperb Earth Size Cool pics depicting the comparison of Earth's size and other planets' and stars' sizes.
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POPSMartian Life!! We are so CLOSE now to finding life on other planets. I am really looking forward to the devastating effect this will have on organized religions!!
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POPSPlan to build telescopes from Moon dust I can't imagine them doing it any other way. After what we've seen with Hubble, The view from the dark side during a full moon, the improvement is likely to be the same magnitude. seems like the deeper we look into the stars, the bigger the Universe seems to get. Maybe we could get clearer readings that would show us where a few more 'earth-like' planets are.
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POPSSpore - A Computer Game to Teach our Children Long Term Thinking This game is about evolution and exploring our universe at all scales from the microscopic to the galactic. It is about the 'Big Picture' of life, and how to think about it in a multilevel multiscale fashion. It will give a real grasp of the complexity and interconnectedness of life, and will educate the players holistic long term thinking and planning. Watch the fascinating presentation of Will Wright in TED. Toys may change the world by changing us. I am all for it, and can't wait playing :-)
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POPSReturning Home Entrance into the unknown is the entrance into eternal life full of different dimensions, energies, times, personalities, spirits and choices, where the levels of experiences are beyond our imagination. Here planets symbolizing souls return back to their designer for new assignments, new adventures, new relationships and new challenges.
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POPS"Super-Earths" Founded The announcement of HD 40307's planets came out of an international workshop called Extra Solar Super-Earths in Nantes, France. Rapid Discovery The study of exoplanets really didn't get under way until 1995, Queloz said. That's about the time Queloz and his colleague Michel Mayor, also from Observatoire de Genève, discovered a planet around the star 51 Pegasi. Since then more than 270 exoplanets have been found, most of them around sun-like stars. Many are giants like Jupiter or Saturn, and current statistics show that about 1 out of 14 stars harbors that kind of planet.
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POPSDozens of 'Super Earths' Found The recent batch of exoplanets were all spotted with the High-Accuracy Radial-Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a 3.6-meter telescope and spectograph perched atop La Scilla mountain at the southern edge of Chile's Atacama Desert.
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