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The Mars Lander

By ShamsMay 24, 20084 commentsScienceMars mission, NASA, Phoenix

As the latest news from NASA released, Mars Phoenix Lander has 1.46 million miles still to travel to finally land on Mars. The total flight is 422 million miles. If everything goes well Phoenix will land on Mars tomorrow, May 25.

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The ‘Crazy Rasberry Ants’

By ShamsMay 15, 2008Environmentant killers, crazy rasberry ants, Houston, Johnson Space Center, ladybugs, NASA, pesticides

Well they have ‘engineering brain’ and they do follow a ‘sustainable strategy’ – when their fellows get killed by pesticides they simply use the ‘corpses’ as bridges to safely move over the surface treated with pesticides 🙂 . The complaints against them are piling up daily. Our subject is an ‘ant’. No not one, they are many – they are the ‘crazy rasberry ants’ of Texas.

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The Chaiten Volcano after 9,000 years

By ShamsMay 7, 2008EnvironmentChaiten volcano, Chile, greenhouse gases, NASA, radiocarbon dating

The Chaiten volcano in southern Chile sprung to life for the first time in thousands of years. The powerful eruption sent ash more than 20 km into the sky and caused a poor visibility in the area. After drifting across Argentina (the southern most country), the plume of ash dissipated over the Atlantic.

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Tag Archives: NASA

The Mars Lander

The ‘Crazy Rasberry Ants’

The Chaiten Volcano after 9,000 years