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• perpetual ocean visualization on Vimeo vimeo.com Shared once with swirling currents reminiscent of van gogh's 'the starry night', the visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world from june 2005 through december 2007, using NASA's ECCO2 high-resolution computational model. video © NASA scientific…

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• NASA Counts 4,700 Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroids tibidy.com Shared once coondoggie writes "NASA continues to get a better handle on the asteroids buzzing around in space saying today that there are roughly 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids, or as NASA calls them PHAs. NASA says these PHAs are a subset of a larger group of near-Earth asteroids but have the closest orbits to Earth's – passing within five million miles (or about eight million kilometers) and are big enough to survive passing through Earth's atmosphere and cause damage on a regional, or greater, scale." | Tibidy

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• The greatest photo ever taken of Earth? www.hlntv.com Shared 2 times The picture you're staring at right now is believed to be the highest resolution image ever taken of our planet. The ultra-crisp, 121 megapixel photo of earth was snapped from a Russian satellite floating 22,369 miles above the Indian Ocean. There are two major differences between this photo and the ones we typically see from NASA. The first is that's a single snapshot.

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• NASA report: 4,700 asteroids pose impact hazard to Earth — RT rt.com Shared 3 times About 4,700 asteroids of 100 meters diameter and larger represent significant threat to Earth in case of orbit intersection, a recent NASA report suggests. And only 30 per cent of them have been located so far, while the rest remain under the radar.

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• 4,700 potentially dangerous asteroids lurk near Earth, NASA says www.foxnews.com Shared 2 times A new NASA survey has pinned down the number of asteroids that could pose a collision threat to Earth in what scientists say is the best estimate yet of the potentially dangerous space rocks.

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• Canada axes green advisory body

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• Tories shut down ‘groundbreaking’ freshwater research station - The Globe and Mail

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• Vermont first state to ban fracking - CNN.com

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