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westtxfun writes:
"Russian scientists claimed Wednesday they have discovered blood in the carcass of a woolly mammoth, adding that the rare find could boost their chances of cloning the prehistoric animal." As scientists unearthed the recent find, very dark blood flowed out from beneath the mammoth and the muscle tissue was red. This is the best-preserved specimen found so far and they are hopeful they can recover DNA and clone a mammoth.
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The Mars Express Orbiter captured a very cool movie of Phobos and Deimos on Nov 5. Besides the "wow factor", the images will be used to refine the moons' orbits. The orbiter has also captured high resolution images of Phobos back in July.
"The images were acquired with the Super Resolution Channel (SRC) of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The camera took 130 images of the moons on 5 November at 9:14 CET in a span of 1.5 minutes at intervals of 1s, speeding up to 0.5-s intervals toward the end. The image resolution is 110 m/pixel for Phobos and 240 m/pixel for Deimos — Deimos was more than twice as far from the camera. "
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The STEREO satellites http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ recently confirmed the existence of solar mega-tsunamis when they captured height data after a sunspot recently erupted. The scale of this tsunami literally dwarfs the Earth's diameter — It was 62,000 miles high and raced across the surface at 560,000 mph! STEREO A and B orbit 90 degrees apart http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml and luckily, one was overhead while the other saw the eruption on the limb. This gave NASA scientists enough data to confirm the tsunami wasn't a shadow, solving a modern solar mystery. The images are simply stunning, to boot.
