SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. … Read the rest “SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)”
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:
… Read the rest “The mushrooms that make the weather.”The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds.
MIT’s Technology Review takes an interesting look at some atmospheric findings – hot flashes in the air, basically – that could help predict earthquakes:
… Read the rest “Earthquake warnings from above.”Dimitar
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles:
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station.
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Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest:
… Read the rest “Desert feeds jungle.”Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing from a vast
Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an… Read the rest “Science Art: Von Karman Vortices”
June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. Soon, I imagine, a couple… Read the rest “Science Art: S125-E-007900 (Canary Islands Vortices), STS-125 Shuttle Mission Imagery”
PhysOrg.com has a new piece of the climate change puzzle, a discovery some call the “holy grail” of climate science:
… Read the rest “Clouds of germs (and germs of clouds).”The effects of tiny airborne particles called aerosols
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
SONG:Now the Snow. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008, as cited in … Read the rest “SONG: Now the Snow”
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars:
… Read the rest “It falls everywhere.”iTwire reports:
Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is the
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
New Scientist adds insult to injury by telling us that not only does it really rain more often on our days off, but that our work week is to blame:
… Read the rest “Rainy weekends are all our fault.”Evidence has been mounting over the years that
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