Space OR Planetary Science - Google News for Monday 29 December 2014

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Book Excerpt: "The Science of 'Interstellar'" - Space.com

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 11:21 AM PST
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Book Excerpt: "The Science of Interstellar"
Space.com
Because of the extreme warping of space inside the black hole, this is not
the holes true radius. Not the true distance from the horizon to the holes
center, as measured in our universe. But it is the event horizons radius
(half its diameter) as ...

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Watch Tragic Christmas Tornadoes From Space - Nature World News

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 01:30 PM PST
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Nature World News
Watch Tragic Christmas Tornadoes From Space
Nature World News
When you think of severe weather disrupting your winter holiday
celebrations, you probably are thinking of icy rain, hail, or a Christmas
just a little too white. However, satellites run by NASA and the NOAA
spotted some very unusual severe weather ...
NASA Captures Severe Christmas Eve Weather Conditions from SpaceTech Times
Public Release: 24-Dec-2014 NASA looks at some severe holiday weather
from ...EurekAlert (press release)
Tornadoes for Christmas: Severe holiday weather from spaceScience Codex
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'Interstellar' Science: Kip Thorne Writes the Book - Space.com

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 11:21 AM PST
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Interstellar Science: Kip Thorne Writes the Book
Space.com
In "The Science of Interstellar" (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014), Caltech
physicist Kip Thorne takes readers on a short swim through the very deep
physics that underlies some of the amazing sights from the movie: black
holes, higher dimensions and 4 ...



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NASA Envisions Floating City High Above in Venus Skies - Science Times

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 02:50 PM PST
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Science Times
NASA Envisions Floating City High Above in Venus Skies
Science Times
Ideally, a small space pod, containing no more than two astronauts, would
enter Venus upper atmosphere at a blazing 7200m per-second, deploying the
solar-heat-inflatable before reaching what NASA is calling the "Atmosphere
Operation," where the ...

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Mystery of 'Metallic Frost' in Venusian Mountains Deepens - Sci-News.com

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 12:27 PM PST
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Mystery of Metallic Frost in Venusian Mountains Deepens
Sci-News.com
The idea that the Venusian highlands are covered in a metallic frost dates
back to 1995, when Dr Raymond Arvidson of the Washington Universitys
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and his colleagues were analyzing
the rich archives of data taken ...