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Time lapse video from the International Space Station

November 14, 2011November 16, 2011 Doug Groves NASA, NHK, SS-HDTV, time lapse, video1 Comment

The video above is comprised of a series of time lapse images taken from the International Space Station over the late summer of this year, then edited and set to music. The camera, known as the “Super Sensitive High Definition TV” or SS-HDTV, works in extremely low light situations, and has managed to capture some detailed visuals of the planet. Whether it’s natural phenomena such auroras and lightning storms, or the vast electrical grid that we as humans have covered the planet with, the footage is nothing less than stunning.

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Saturday Morning Science 001

February 5, 2011February 10, 2011 Pete Chapman Cassini, Heinlein, manned space flight, NASA, Obama, Saturday Morning Science, solar sail, space shuttle4 Comments

Welcome to the first installment of a new rgbFilter feature: Saturday Morning Science. Its title comes from a piece of short hand that our editor, Doug Groves would use to describe some of our previous science articles: as in, “This one is a kind of read-it-over-Saturday-morning-coffee kind of piece.” The idea of a weekly science review was our response to the general “Twitterization” of science reporting that a regular website/blog can easily fall into. How many times can a new Earth be discovered, a silly thing be done to some…

Toxic microbe expands definition of life according to NASA

December 2, 2010December 8, 2010 Doug Groves announcement, arsenic, astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, GFAJ-1, microbe, Mono Lake, NASA1 Comment

A couple of days ago, NASA said that they would be holding a press conference that would “discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” Any announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life is going to be greeted with a lot of speculation, but the answer turns out to be a little closer to home. To the disappointment of some, NASA didn’t spill the beans on the alien captured at Roswell. Instead, the finding were a little closer to home, but not insignificant in their…

NASA captures solar flares, confirms human insignificance, all in glorious HD

April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 Danny X NASA, solar flare, video5 Comments

What you’re looking at above is awe-inspiring for two reasons; one, it’s a Gizmodo story that has nothing to do with a leaked iPhone, and two, it’s some of the first imagery and data sent back from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In it, NASA was able to capture a full solar flare (or “prominence eruption”) in action, as well as several views of the Sun’s temperature variances and magnetic fields through several different wavebands. The purpose goes far beyond snapping pictures of the impossible, too: SDO is designed to…