Tag: earth
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The Lore and Lure of Ley Lines
from livescience.com: Many people believe that a grid of earth energies circles the globe, connecting important and sacred sites such as Stonehenge, the Egyptian Pyramids, and the Great Wall of China. If you plot these and other sites on a map, a curious thing becomes apparent: Many of them can be connected by straight lines.…
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Sun Sets, Mars Rises In Cosmic Alignment
from guardianlv.com: Night sky gawkers are preparing for an uncommon occurrence coming this Tuesday evening on April 8. That is when three entities within the solar system will be in a near perfect queue. The Sun, Earth and Mars will all be lined up in a stunning cosmic alignment, and Mars will also be visible…
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The Black Marble: Earth At Night
Two months of night-time imagery gathered by the Suomi NPP satellite have resulted in a stunning new look at Earth at night, appropriately nicknamed the Black Marble.
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impressive auroras as aurora max 2012 nears
Take a brief and beautiful tour of auroras (or aurorae) from around the world, then depart for more pix from other points in the solar system, Saturn (red) and Jupiter (blue). Auroras are building and will reach an aurora max in 2012. First stop, Northern Lights in Iceland are pictured on The Telegraph UK website.…
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earth’s magnetic fields cause of bird & fish die off
The Earth’s magnetic fields are surfacing in the press as an explanation for several recent mass bird and fish die-offs! Donna Pravel writes in, “Earth’s Magnetic Fields May Be Causing Bird and Fish Die-Off”, about massive breaches detected in the magnetosphere by five NASA Themis spacecraft. Breaches allow highly charged particles to enter and can…
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why the moon appears grey from earth
Cary Martynuik, a moon researcher with a part in movie, “Moon Rising”, asks good questions about the Moon’s appearance as seen from Earth. Martynuik contends our atmosphere and its light diffusion and scattering properties, only makes the moon appear colorless. Our eyes simply do not receive the color information before it’s deflected? Is there color…
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nasa says solar flare will strike earth nov 14 or 15
Sunspot 1123 hurled a C-4 class solar flare in the Earth’s direction just south of the Sun-Earth line, sometime, in the early hours of Nov. 12, 2010. The coronal mass ejection (CME) could glance off the Earth’s magnetic field on either Nov. 14th or Nov. 15th to create auroras. Full article is at Before It’s…