Witchy weather musings

Sun Tsunamis!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:36:00 GMT

From NASA Monster Waves on the Sun are Real 11.24.2009November 24, 2009: Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami."Years ago, when solar physicists first witnessed a towering wave of hot plasma racing along the sun's surface, they doubted their senses. The scale of the thing was staggering....
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Snow??

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:14:00 GMT

So who's got some? Want to share? :)
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FIREBALL!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:23:00 GMT

Did anyone here see this?Space Weather News for Nov. 18, 2009http://spaceweather.comFIREBALLS AND METEORS: As forecasters predicted, the Leonid meteor shower peaked during the late hours of Nov. 17th, favoring sky watchers in Asia with an outburst of 100+ meteors per hour. Just as the outburst was dying down, an even bigger event took place over the western USA. Something hit Earth's atmosphere and exploded with an energy equivalent of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT. Wi...
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Water on the Moon?? YES!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:32:00 GMT

From:NASANovember 13, 2009: The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water.At a press conference today, researchers revealed preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the Moon."We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator...
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Poor Stuck Spirit -- Hang on, Little Buddy, we'll save you!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:05:00 GMT

RELEASE: 09-263NASA TO BEGIN ATTEMPTS TO FREE SAND-TRAPPED MARS ROVERPASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.Spirit has been lodged at a site scientists call "Troy" since April 23. Researchers expect the extraction process to be long and the outcome uncertain based on tests here on Earth this spring that simulated conditio...
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