Category: Video of the Day
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RED SKIES OVER THE U.K.
A strange event set off social media yesterday with news about the eerie red sky over the UK. The BBC reported the red sun and eerie sky that was seen all over the United Kingdom on October 16, 2017. According to weather forecasters, this phenomenon was cause by remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air…
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Surprise! Hidden Antarctic Ice Canyons
According to the ESA on October 11, 2017, its : and Sentinel-1 missions have discovered huge canyons cutting through the underside of ice shelves in Antarctica. The ice shelves act as conveyor belts, by which snow that falls in Antarctica ultimately makes its way back to the sea. Portions of the ESA Statement:Â The ice sheet…
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CUPIC: Diary of an Investigator: Revisiting Season One With Episode One
Episode 1 S1 An Introduction Johanna Leoni an investigator for CUPIC introduces the various people who help shape the organization. Update: Production is back on for the completion of the final season, Season 3, after a long delay and hiatus. Yes, we’ve said this three months ago, but other projects had to be completed…
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Asteroid FlyBy October 11th and 12th, 2017
The Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and astronomers and observatories around the globe are watching a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4. Asteroid 2012 TC4 will be used as a test of Earth’s global asteroid defense system. Check out the article at Earth-Sky: http://earthsky.org/space/near-earth-asteroid-2012-tc4-close-pass-october-2017 Watch2012 TC4 here: https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/
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Hillside Junction Division Fall Update
Latest update to my 4’X8′ HO Scale DC layout that is based on scenes around Southern California
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A STRANGE BINARY ASTEROID
Binary asteroid – two asteroids orbiting each other – with comet-like features.
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CASSINI PLUNGES, iPhone X, and Equifax Debacle: Weekend WrapUp Archives 2017
CASSINI’S FINAL PLUNGE NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its final bow before taking a plunge into Saturn on Friday, September 15, 2017, ending a thrilling 13 years of exploration and the tour of the ringed planet. Telemetry received during the plunge indicates that, as expected, Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere with its thrusters firing to maintain stability,…
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Irma’s Effect on the Caribbean
The following is from a report from the NASA Earth Observatory. Hurricane Irma churned across the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017, battering several Caribbean islands before moving on to the Florida Keys and the U.S. mainland. As the clouds cleared over places like the Virgin Islands, the destruction became obvious even from space. These natural-color…
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Openings in Antarctic Sea Ice
According to a new analysis of climate models by an international team of researchers, heat escaping from the ocean through polynyas or openings in sea ice – influences sea and atmospheric temperatures and wind patterns around the globe – even rainfall around the tropics. Check out this Article from Earksy.org: http://earthsky.org/earth/openings-in-antarctic-sea-ice-influence-global-climate?mc_cid=21722f1550&mc_eid=36fb49e54a
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HOTTER JULY
July 2017 was statistically tied with July 2016 as the warmest July in the 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Last month was about 0.83 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean July temperature of the 1951-1980…