Although the heat source isn't a new or increasing threat to the West Antarctic ice sheet, it may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlier era of rapid climate change, and why it is so unstable today.
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- Toy manufacturer Lego Group has announced it will be creating a set of Legos based around the women of NASA, Community Specialist Hasan Jensen wrote in a blog post for the company on Tuesday.
- The idea for the project was originally pitched by Maia Weinstock, who submitted it to Lego through the company’s Lego Ideas program.
- The set will include five women who contributed to NASA’s mission, including computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, mathematician Katherine Johnson, astronaut Sally Ride, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to enter space in 1992. Read more (2/28/17 5:53 PM)
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...and we’re only 5 days in.
Write/call your Congress person and the White House! This is unacceptable.
On a personal note, my job is funded by the National Science Foundation. If NSF ends up on the chopping block, not only will it freeze the amazing research being done across the country (and world), it will lead to unemployment for many.
Source: Washington Post
grant deadlines, poster-making for conferences, and 15-page project summaries got me like...
Russian Deep-Sea Fisherman, Roman Fedortsov, Shares His Horrifying Discoveries on Twitter. He fishes in the port city of Murmansk, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia.
aka what nightmares are made of.
On Friday, NASA released an astonishing new image taken by researchers flying above the ice shelf. The image of the breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Nov. 10 shows the crack is getting longer, deeper and wider. Scientists think it will eventually cause a large section of the shelf to break off and produce an iceberg the size of Delaware.
The scientists associated with a NASA field campaign known as Operation IceBridge measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep.
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R E T U R N T O T H E D E P T H S
Just the ocean being terrifying, as per usual.
Respect & Protect our public lands
Videos made for the BLM about protecting fossil resources, and being a good outdoor trail user/decent human being.
Happy National Fossil Day!
Top: articulated phytosaur skull found in Petrified Forest National Park this summer.
Bottom: Charles Camp’s phytosaur described in 1930.
From NSF’s News Page--
TIME-LAPSE: one balloon and the world's southernmost sunrise Image: Christian Krueger, NSF / IceCube Neutrino Observatory In this time-lapse photo, taken at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a balloon rises to take atmospheric data. Measurements have been taken at the Pole of the gasses and other components of the atmosphere for decades. An officer with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launches a balloon each week. This launch occurred roughly a week ago--also about a week before the sun was due to rise above the horizon at the Pole for the first time in six months.
Pinksourcing with Kristen Bell
“Is your company looking to maximize their output while cutting back on costs? Why outsource all your production to faraway countries like India, China, and Narnia when we have the best and cheapest workforce right here in the good old U.S. of A?
Women.”
Utah’s Mysterious Moqui Marbles--mystery solved?
The Navajo Sandstone was once the biggest expanse of dunes on Earth. Its color comes from flakes of iron-rich minerals blown in and buried with the quartz sand. After the dunes were blanketed and buried by younger geologic layers, the iron enrobed the sand grains, giving the Navajo Sandstone its amazing colors and patterns.
Eons later, the moqui marbles were born. The concretions owe their existence to massive tectonic shifts in the Southwest, researchers think. Some 20 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau started to bob up like a cork. The entire plateau has lifted about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers).
The lightning storm killed 323 reindeer on the Hardangervidda plateau in central Norway. The government estimates that about 2,000 reindeer live in the area.
Havard Kjontvedt/Norwegian Nature Inspectorate
Climate Inaction Figures.
Definitely one of the best things I’ve seen on the internet in a while.
Turtle shells first evolved for digging, then protection.
“...big claws for breaking up soil, and thickened bones for withstanding compressive forces.
The turtle’s shell, then, is a wonderful example of exaptation—the evolutionary process where a trait evolves for one function and is then co-opted to serve another. They began as digging platforms and then became suits of armor. Feathers are another example. They now help birds to fly, but they probably originated as ways of keeping warm or signaling to mates and rivals.”