Monthly Archives: July 2010

Mars Rocks: Clues to Life 4 Billion Years Ago

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living … Continue reading →

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25 Years of Dot-Com. Predictions for the Future

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

March 15, 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the first “dot-com” registration on the Internet. With over 100 million domain registrations and counting, we’ve witnessed an explosion of communication, commerce, idea-sharing, and human connectivity unlike anything else in human history. … Continue reading →

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Asteroid Might Collide With the Earth in 2182

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

The potentially hazardous asteroid ‘(101955) 1999 RQ36′ has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth, and more than half of this probability indicates that this could happen in the year 2182, based on a global study in which Spanish researchers … Continue reading →

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Era of Interceptor Missiles Began in India

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

India today successfully conducted the test fire of an interceptor missile to establish a Ballistic Missile defence (BMD) shield as part of the network-centric warfare.The mission was conducted successfully when the surface to surface Prthivi missile, described as targetted enemy … Continue reading →

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Dark Energy and the Universe

Posted on July 25, 2010 by

Dark energy has the cosmoslogists scratching their heads. Observations taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and future space telescopes will be needed in order to determine the properties of dark energy, which makes up about 70 percent of the universe. … Continue reading →

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NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map

Posted on July 24, 2010 by

A camera aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.The map … Continue reading →

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Airglow(Nightglow)

Posted on July 24, 2010 by

Airglow (also called nightglow) is the very weak emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. In the case of Earth’s atmosphere, this phenomenon causes the night sky to never be completely dark (even after the effects of starlight and diffused … Continue reading →

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Some Facts About India

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Dear Readers Found this very useful post about India and thought of sharing it with you all. INDIA Continent :Asia Region Southern Asia Indian subcontinent Coordinates 21°N 78°E / 21°N 78°E / 21; 78 Area Ranked 7th 3,287,263 km2 (1,269,219.3 … Continue reading →

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