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- Zoom In On An Asteroid Impact Crater
- Melting of Oregon’s Largest Glacier
- Views of the National Parks – Teaching Resource
- The Dinosaur that Terrorized Europe
- Video: Perseid Meteor Shower
- EPA WaterSense
- New Hump-Back Species of Dinosaur Discovered
- Detecting Volcanoes on Distant Planets
| Zoom In On An Asteroid Impact Crater Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT A Google Map that allows you to zoom in on fifty of Earth’s most obvious impact sites with satellite images and maps. We have selected the ones that are easiest for the inexperienced viewer to recognize. |
| Melting of Oregon’s Largest Glacier Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT “An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. ” Quoted from the Oregon State University press release. |
| Views of the National Parks – Teaching Resource Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:49 PM PDT “The National Park Service's Views program, targeted to middle and high school age children (and those who teach them). [...] .To reach the target audience, and provide the next best thing to the park experience itself, NPS decided it needed to go with a heavily multimedia, immersive approach—lots of 360 degree panoramas, soundscapes, 3D images, [...] |
| The Dinosaur that Terrorized Europe Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:34 PM PDT “Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely isolated from nearby continents. Balaur bondoc used extendable claws to attack and tear apart prey.” Quoted from the National Science Foundation press release. |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:29 PM PDT This video shows a compilation of events seen during the peak of the 2010 Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2010, over Huntsville, Alabama. The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Video: NASA/MSFC/D. Moser. View a composite image of a meteor shower by Erno Berkó [...] |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:00 PM PDT The Environmental Protection Agency has “WaterSense” – an educational area of the website to assist teachers of grades 3 through 5 in teaching about water. Their philosophy is… “The future of Earth's water resources depends on today's children understanding the importance of water conservation and efficiency.” |
| New Hump-Back Species of Dinosaur Discovered Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT A new species of dinosaur, named Concavenator corcovatus, has been discovered near Cuenca, Spain. This new species has two intriguing features: a large hump on its back, and small bumps on its forearms which resemble attachment points for feathers. |
| Detecting Volcanoes on Distant Planets Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:39 PM PDT “Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they’re asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the answer to the latter is a qualified ‘Yes.’” – Quoted from the Harvard-Smithsonian [...] |
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