News Briefs 20-07-2009
Posted by Kat at 12:43, 20 Jul 2009What an irresistible headline... More than one, come to think of it.
- Did great balls of fire form the planets?
- Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins urge manned Mars mission.
- Click on the moon map to view archive video of each of the six Apollo Moon landings.
- For 40 years, the rocks hauled back from the moon have been changing the history of the Earth as we knew it.
- Ancient Earth may have 'greened' much earlier than previously thought.
- Clingy Martian dust guilty as charged.
- Never-before-seen photo shows Neil Armstrong's face as he first walks across the moon.
- Does Jupiter's black eye mean it's been hit by a massive space rock in recent days?
- Newsweek debunks Moon hoax 'lunatics'.
- NASA orbiter returns first shots of Apollo moon sites, showing the missions' lunar module descent stages, accented by their shadows from a low sun angle.
- Reaching for the stars through a cloud of debris.
- Duncan Jones discusses his new cult film, Moon, in this two-part video interview.
- Forget Apollo and Sputnik: How a Briton launched the space race to the moon in the 1640s.
- Chinese researchers are poised to find out for sure whether gravity fluctuates during a total eclipse – a discovery that would challenge our ideas about how gravity works.
- How Poles cracked the Nazi Enigma secret.
- How do scientists decide which animal genome to sequence next?
- Jellyfish the size of dustbin lids wash up on Scottish beaches, following a rise in sea temperature.
- Investigation of blindspot shows brain rewiring in an instant.
- In search of lucid dreaming: Can you teach yourself to control your dreams?
- George Knapp reports on America's secret psychic warriors. (text and video)
- Bob Geldof joins other rock stars in supporting 'UFO hacker' Gary McKinnon.
- Barack Obama is to receive a personal plea from peers, MPs and mental health experts to halt the extradition of Gary McKinnon. Enough, already! Just pardon him, and be done with it.
- Pentagon reassures us that their steam-powered, biomass-eating military robot is vegetarian. Sure, 'til it tastes us...
- Children traumatised by hoaxed alien abduction of teacher.
- Sometimes you're just sitting there, admiring the view, and God sticks his finger in the way.
- The Genesis enigma: How did the Bible describe the evolution of life 3,000 years before Darwin?
- Richard Dawkins explains that humans did not descend from chimpanzees. If you don't find his 'blue lines' convincing, try this...
- Cool video of the fossil record, from Australopithecus to Homo Sapiens, at 500 generations per second.
A big thanks to Greg for contributing most of today's news.
Quote of the Day:
God squanders infinite time and patience on the growth of a perfect thing.
Cash Bateman
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3 August 2005
2 years 11 weeks
The photo is a fake. All EVAs, lunar or orbital, were done with the gold colored sun visor pulled down. To work witjout one's visor down risks what happened to Apollo 12'd color TV camera to happen to one's eyes. For you youngsters, they happened to point it towards the sun while moving it. It just scanned by the sun. In that brief time, the sun's light fried it. The human retina is far more sensitive to sunlight than is a camera's sensor.
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12 April 2007
7 hours 6 min
Another telling element is the shadow of the astronaut projected on the lunar soil. All of the shadow appears solid, but, if the astronaut had gotten his visor up, I would imagine you would see the shadow also showing a much more transparent portion matching that part of the helmet; I think you would even see the astronaut's profile in the shadow, the way the light of the sun is positioned.
...Unless this is all part of the Moon-landing hoax XD
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1 May 2004
2 weeks 1 day
The photo is from Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences by Andrew Chaikin (Amazon US & UK).
Andrew Chaikin is the author of the acclaimed A Man on the Moon and several other books about space. He is a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition.
In this YouTube video, Andrew Chaikin talks about Neil Armstrong and Voices from the Moon. He also answers the question, "How did you find a new image of Neil Armstrong?" In fact, it's the first question put to him. (The answer can also be found in the article linked in today's News Briefs.)
More images from Voices from the Moon are posted in this Air&Space article at Smithsonian.
Andrew Chaikin talks about the technological benefits we gained from NASA missions.
12 April 2007
7 hours 6 min
I found this page. It's pretty cool and shows a close-up of one of Aldrin's more iconic pics where you can in fact see his face; probably due to the intensity of the light and the angle of the photo.
And there's also the picture we're discussing. Seems Armstrong raised the gold visor for a very brief moment to check the color of the lunar surface. A calculated risk I presume.
Well, I was wrong. The photo looks genuine. I'm still confused by the shadow, though.
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