Monthly Archives: December 2009

Black Carbon and Himalayan Warming

A new modeling study from NASA confirms that when tiny air pollution particles we commonly call soot — also known as black carbon — travel along wind currents from densely populated south Asian cities and accumulate over a climate hotspot … Continue reading

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Stromatolite :The Original Producers of Oxygen and Oldest Fossils encoding the mysteries of Deep Time

Stromatolites are considered the most intriguing fossils that are our window  into deep time on earth, the emergence of life, and the eventual evolving of the beautiful life forms from Cambrian to modern time. In broad terms, stromatolites are fossil … Continue reading

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China gets first laser based mobile mapping system

3D Laser Mapping has delivered StreetMapper, the first laser based mobile mapping system to China. StreetMapper 360 is a joint development between 3D Laser Mapping and German guidance and navigation specialist IGI, has been specifically designed for the rapid 3D … Continue reading

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Icy Moons of Saturn and Jupiter May Have Conditions Needed for Life

Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system’s “habitable zone,” where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. But according to planetary scientist Francis Nimmo, … Continue reading

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