New mayan tomb found

Tiny camera reveals the inside of a Mayan tomb that has been sealed for 1,500 years

 

A tiny, remote-controlled camera has been lowered into an early Mayan tomb that has been sealed for 1,500 years.
Extraordinary footage of the tomb at the Palenque archaeological site in southern Mexico revealed an apparently intact funeral chamber with red frescoes, pottery and pieces of a funerary shroud made of jade and mother of pearl.
It also showed a series of nine figures depicted in black on a vivid, blood-red background.
Archaeologists say the images from one of the earliest ruler's tombs found at Palenque will shed new light on the early years of the once-great city state.

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Canadian Strongman Lifts 22 Gals

Women on Top: Canadian Strongman Lifts 22 Gals

 

How did you spend the weekend?

If you lifted 22 women at once weighing more than 2,000 pounds combined, congratulations -- you must be a Canadian strongman.
Ripley's Believe It or Not says Kevin Fast, one of the strongest of all the strongmen the company has ever documented, carried out the feat over the weekend at a performance in Ontario.
"I'll keep piling people on until it can't fit anymore, or I can't lift anymore!" Ripley's quoted Fast as saying in a news release before the event.
And he didn't stop there: Fast was also joined by his son, Jacob -- and together, the duo pulled two fire trucks weighing a combined 153,000 pounds 100 feet in 38 seconds using only a rope.
The Fasts showed off their feats as part of a promotion for Ripley's latest book, "Strikingly True," which goes on sale in September.

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Asteroid narrowly miss Earth!!

INCOMING! 

Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday

 

This may sound like late notice, but astronomers have just spotted a rather chunky asteroid heading our way, set to narrowly miss us on Monday.

In fact, it will be such a narrow miss that astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to spot the flyby with fairly modest telescopes.
Coincidentally, I was watching yet another re-run of Armageddon the other night when the heroic Bruce Willis and his motley crew of oil drillers-turned-astronauts saved Earth from certain asteroid doom. On arrival at the asteroid, and having sacrificed many of the team, Willis et al. succeeded in dropping a typical Hollywood-style uber-bomb into the depths of the incoming asteroid and blew it to bits, giving everyone on Earth a glitzy meteor shower.
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I'm not so sure it will be really that easy to destroy an incoming asteroid (see my previous Discovery News article "How do we dodge the next incoming asteroid?") particularly given the 12 days notice they had in the film.
Yet we are forced to consider our delicate position when the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project discovered an asteroid called 2011 MD. It's heading our way, and we've only been given four days notice.

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Working from their base in New Mexico, the LINEAR team uses automated one-meter ground based telescopes to probe the skies for so-called near-Earth object (NEO) threats. The discovery of 2011 MD on Wednesday goes to show that we need to get better at identifying potential asteroid threats, investing more money and time into projects like LINEAR. The more time we have, the greater chance there is of us being able to do something about it.
Surprisingly, NEOs are more common than you think with around 8,000 known. This newly discovered interplanetary interloper is thought to measure no more than 20 meters wide, making it no real threat -- but it's a warning all the same.
Wide Angle: Asteroids!
If 2011 MD did hit us, then it would more than likely break up in the atmosphere and give us an amazing display of fireballs and meteors. As it turns out, it will sail harmlessly by at a butt-clenchingly close distance of only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles), 32 times closer than the moon, and closer than some geosynchronous satellites.
It will get so close to the Earth that the asteroid's trajectory will be altered by our planet's gravitational field.
"We are certain that it will miss us, but if it did enter the atmosphere, an asteroid this size would mostly burn up in a brilliant fireball, possibly scattering a few meteorites," UK asteroid expert Emily Baldwin, told Skymania News on Thursday.
The moment of closest approach will occur on Monday, June 27 at 13:30 UTC somewhere over the South Atlantic Ocean. Its visibility will be severely limited, but amateur astronomers in Australia and New Zealand should be able to track 2011 MD in the night sky just before closest approach

Learn more: http://news.discovery.com

ufo captured on military cam

UFO Flyby Captured On Military Jet Cam! *HD* 

 

This footage was originally filmed in 2009. Leaked cockpit footage of a fighter jet engaging a UFO. Is this smoking gun footage or smoke and mirrors. Make your own decisions...

Dancing gorilla

 Dancing gorilla at the Calgary Zoo

The video shows Zola having pure fun with an enrichment opportunity during Spotlight on Gorillas and is not a trained behavior; the music was added afterward.

Zola, nine-years old, is one of eight Western lowland gorillas currently living at the Calgary Zoo as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Gorilla Species Survival Plan. He loves to play in water and keepers regularly give him the opportunity to do so as part of the enrichment activities they plan and vary on a daily basis.

star water

  STAR THAT SHOOTS COLOSSAL JETS OF WATER...

  

Astronomers have found a nascent star 750 light years from earth that shoots colossal jets of water -- a cosmic fire hose -- out its poles in bullet-like pulses.

And it could go on for a thousand years in each star. Astronomers think all baby stars go through this process as they form, and that our sun did it too once.

The protostar was found in the Perseus constellation in an object called L1448-MM, seen from the earth to the right of the Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters cluster of stars, in the constellation of Taurus. It is called a low-mass protostar, meaning it is just beginning to grow into a star.

While jets like that have been seen in other baby stars, astronomers, using the European Space Agency’'s Herschel infrared orbiting telescope were able to measure the flow of the jets using water molecules as the tracer.

Lars E. Kristensen, a postdoctoral student at the Leiden University in the Netherlands, an author of the paper, said that all stars are formed by the accretion of dust and other particles in interstellar space and are eventually surrounded by a disk of material that falls into the star as it builds.

The disks are something like the rings of Saturn but far less well-defined, he said, "more puffy."

Material that is not used by the forming star is blasted back out into space from the poles, perpendicular to the angle of the disks.

"We don’'t know the launching point or the exact launching mechanism," Kristensen said. "There is no self-consistent theory that can explain what we are seeing."


More Info : http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-baby-star-blasts-jets-space.html

A black hole scuttles a STAR!!

A BLACK HOLE SCUTTLES A STAR..

A black hole 3.8 billion light-years from Earth is shown in this artist's representation tearing apart a star that drifted within its gravitational pull. This scenario is part of a new explanation for one of the brightest events ever recorded by astronomers. After consuming the star the black hole released a high-energy beam of gamma rays and x-rays, according to Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, and his associates. The research, based on data collected by NASA's orbiting Swift Gamma-Ray Burst observatory, is published in the June 16 issue of Science. In the same issue, Andrew Levan of the University of Warwick and his colleagues pinpoint the beam's source as a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.
 


The signal that the Swift satellite received lasted longer than any previously detected gamma ray burst. Rather than declining in intensity after a few minutes as is typical, the brightness of the gamma rays continued to fluctuate and spike over the course of two days. Meanwhile, the x-ray flare's afterglow remained bright for more than two weeks.

The beam's longevity and intensity suggest that a massive black hole, more than a million times heavier than the sun, released two concentrated jets of energy after pulling a star apart. One of the beams pointed directly toward Earth whereas the other traveled off in the opposite direction. The beam's intensity fluctuated as the black hole sucked in leftover pieces of the doomed star.

—Sophie Bushwick

More info: http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=9A1A4E79-C6CE-14F2-A959C153FF0FA7C3&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_BS_20110617 

Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites

Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites

BRACEVILLE, Ill. - Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.









Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard -- sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

More info: http://www.grahamhancock.com/news/index.php?node=22473

Monster Chinese Telescope

Monster Chinese Telescope the Next ET Hunter?

 

 

 

 

In radio astronomy, the bigger the telescope, the better. And in 2016, the Chinese are expected to blow the international radio telescope competition out of the water with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST).
Construction has begun in the Guizhou Province in southern China where the world's largest single dish radio telescope will take up residency in a natural depression in the landscape, not dissimilar to the world-famous Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. However, FAST will be bigger, faster and more sensitive than Arecibo.
Featuring a 500 meter diameter "dish," FAST will contain 4,400 triangular aluminum panels, suspended inside the dish, each of which can be adjusted to deform the dish's overall shape. This ability means FAST, although rooted into the Guizhou countryside, will have some generous maneuverability.

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One huge factor in choosing the Guizhou Province is that it is a remote location, generally free of interfering radio transmissions from populated areas. As my Discovery News colleague and radio astronomer Nicole Gugliucci(radio) silence is golden. always reminds us,
Arecibo's fixed-dish design means it can only use 221 meters of its 305-meter dish at any one time. FAST will have the collecting power of the entire 305 meter Arecibo dish, and will be able to scan more of the sky in doing so -- it will be able to "tilt" its viewing angle 40 degrees from the vertical in all directions, a luxury Arecibo never had.
The FAST concept began life as the Chinese contribution to the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA), but the SKA project will eventually find a home in either South Africa or Australia, using an array of smaller radio antennae, mimicking a single large telescope. In 2006, China decided to go it alone with FAST and devoted funds to its construction.
Not only will the adaptive shape of FAST enable astronomers to direct this powerful radio antenna with ease, its sensitivity will be second to none. It will be able to "see" three times deeper into space than Arecibo and generate the sharpest ever radio observations of interstellar gas, pulsars, supernovae, black hole emissions and join the effort to hunt for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.
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In 1995, the SETI Institute launched Project Phoenix, an attempt to survey 1,000 nearby sun-like stars, listening out for any artificial radio "beep." With the inclusion of FAST, the scope of this project could be increased, allowing SETI to survey 5,000 of the nearest sun-like stars. FAST could theoretically detect ET "phoning home" up to 1,000 light-years away.
Could FAST be the radio eye we need to spot our transmitting intelligent extraterrestrial neighbors? We'll have to wait another five years to find out.

Read more about FAST: "The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project," Nan et al., 2011. arXiv:1105.3794v2 [astro-ph.IM]

More info:  http://news.discovery.com/space/monster-chinese-telescope-the-next-et-hunter-110621.html

APPLE'S 'SPACESHIP' CAMPUS

Is Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Too Far Out?

 

On June 7, Apple founder Steve Jobs paid a rare visit to the City Council in Cupertino, Calif., to present his vision for a new corporate campus.

Although the Apple campus won’t require formal approval until fall 2012, Jobs took the opportunity to highlight its distinctive features.

The prospective four-story building, which Jobs told council members “looks a little bit like a spaceship,” abounds with potential benefits -- in theory, at least.

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Jobs said the campus will ideally run off alternative energy sources and increase surrounding green space by 60 percent.

In addition, the donut-shaped complex will be flooded with natural lighting, thanks to expansive windows that will stretch around the entire structure.

But is this mega-building something realistic or an architectural fantasy from outer space?

“There’s a lot of research and simulation studies that are needed to verify that what’s planned actually delivers some of its intended goals,” said Ihab Elzeyadi, associate professor of architecture and director of the High Performance Environments Lab at University of Oregon.

Specifically, the impressive size of the sprawling Apple spaceship could pose a problem.

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“To me this is a design of good intentions, but it’s hugely over-proportioned, over-scaled to the point that it defies the very essence that might make it great,” Elzeyadi.

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Consider the expansive central courtyard, the hole in the middle of the giant structural donut, meant to provide a pleasant outdoor space for Apple employees.

“Once the courtyard becomes so large and over-proportioned, you lose the bio-climatic benefits of a courtyard-centered building in creating a microclimate that is different from the un-protected space,” Elzeyai said. “But if your courtyard is that wide in diameter, it’s no longer functional.”

More info:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/is-apples-spaceship-campus-too-far-out-110621.html

RIOT POLICE TASE STRIKER IN RUSSIA

STRIKER TASER-STUNG BY POLICE : FOOTBALL RUSSIA

Football spectators are often seen clashing with security officers, but in the Russian town of Nizhny Novgorod, policing turned on a player instead. A striker for St. Petersburg's Zenit squad was given a jolt of volts by an officer. He was hit when he approached his team's fans to celebrate their victory. Police say the spectators became unruly, but deny using a Taser gun on the player. However, a medical checkup confirmed the striker had suffered burns caused by electric shock.

 

More Info:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/9/Qq_ruL_aPnw

PLANE CRASH IN RUSSIA June 20

 Plane crash in north-west Russia kills 44

Forty-four people have been killed in a plane crash in north-western Russia, officials say.

The aircraft attempted to land on a motorway about 1km (0.6 miles) from Petrozavodsk airport in the republic of Karelia, but crashed and caught fire.

The Tupolev Tu-134 operated by RusAir was carrying 43 passengers and nine crew. Some of the survivors are said to be in critical condition in hospital.
The plane came down while flying from the capital, Moscow, to Petrozavodsk.
It just missed houses built close to the motorway. One source told the Interfax news agency that bodies were strewn along the road.
The emergency ministry's Karelia office said radio contact with the pilot was lost at 2340 local time (1940GMT). There was no immediate explanation for the crash.
RusAir is a privately-owned, Moscow-based airline that operates services in western Russia and eastern Europe.

More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk

A ROBOT THAT CAN DRAW

 AIKON-II

We may not be up to the levels of android intelligence as depicted in the Will Smith hit movie I, Robot, but Goldsmiths, University of London is showing off a robotic arm that can DRAW!

Supported in part by a Leverhulme Trust grant held at the Computing Department of the capital's University, artist Patrick Tresset has trained a robot to take portraits of humans, based on his abilities.

It has 'eyes' linked to an artificial mind which imperfectly simulates a small part of Tresset's abilities.

The device has watched his master at work, sketching portraits, and then puts into practice what it has learnt.
A bit less ferocious than Terminator yes, and possibly a bit less exhilarating for the watcher, but impressive none the less.
Tresset is working with Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie, and their project, called AIKON-II has received in the past year notable media attention including from the BBC, Wired, Blueprint, New Scientist, El-Mundo.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2005257/AIKON-II-Move-Leonardo-da-Vinci-heres-robot-DRAW.html#ixzz1PrXmzHe5

NEW ROCKETPLAN>> FLIES FROM PARIS_TOKYO IN 2.5 HRs

New Rocketplane Could Fly Paris-Tokyo in 2.5 Hours

 

June 20, 2011 -- European aerospace giant EADS on Sunday unveiled its "Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation" (Zehst) rocket plane it hopes will be able to fly from Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours by around 2050.

"I imagine the plane of the future to look like Zehst," EADS' chief technical officer Jean Botti said as the project was announced at Le Bourget airport the day before the start of the Paris International Air Show.

 

The low-pollution plane to carry between 50 and 100 passengers will take off using normal engines powered by biofuel made from seaweed before switching on its rocket engines at altitude.

The rocket engines, powered by hydrogen and oxygen whose only exhaust is water vapor, propel the plane to a cruising altitude of 32 kilometers (20 miles), compared to today's passenger jets that fly at around 10,000 meters (6 miles).

"You don't pollute, you're in the stratosphere," Botti said.

To land, the pilot cuts the engines and glides down to Earth before reigniting the regular engines used for landing.

EADS hopes to have a prototype built by 2020 and for the plane to eventually enter service around 2050. The project is being developed in collaboration with Japan and uses technology that is already available. A four-meter (13 feet) model of the plane, which looks similar to the now defunct Concorde supersonic jet, will be on show at Bourget for the biannual aerospace showcase, which begins on Monday and opens to the general public on Friday. 

More info: http://news.discovery.com

Birthplace of Abraham

Birthplace of Abraham Gets a New Lease on Life

 

  

Like the great pyramids of Egypt, it looms above a parched, flat and desolate landscape and easily dominates the skyline of this ancient, now long abandoned city. The Great Ziggurat is what most people think about when one mentions the city of Ur. Much more than a single monumental structure, however, Ur was a royal city that contained the public buildings, religious centers, and tombs of a people who, over 4,000 years ago, set the standards for civilizations that followed. It was one of the first great centers of Mesopotamia. Here Abraham, according to the Biblical account, was born and raised. And here, over the many centuries, elements and events, both natural and human, have combined to lay it to waste. It crumbles before our eyes. That is now changing.

Through joint efforts of the U.S.-based Global Heritage Fund, the Iraq Ministry of Culture, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, and the Dhiqar Antiquities Office, what remains of Ur will be systematically restored and stabilized and a plan established to breath new life into tourism and the local community. It will also build a foundation for future archaeologists to again resume serious research and investigation of this seminal site.

The plan includes surveying and documenting the site and its remains, producing new maps through the use of techniques such as satellite imagery and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), defining the site boundaries, creating a photographic database of the site's current state, installing a boundary fence, developing a conservation Master Plan, and then implementing conservation activities to restore and stabilize some of the site's most endangered structures, which include the Great Ziggurat and the nearby Royal Cemetery. Efforts will also include a more developed, comprehensive plan for site interpretation and presentation. The price tag involves a $850,000 investment by GHF and $1,000,000 from the Government of Iraq.

 

Aside from the goal of conserving a valuable heritage of global interest, it is hoped that the efforts will produce returns for a country that has enormous tourism potential. Says Jeff Morgan, Executive Director of GHF, "Everybody has been to Egypt in the past 30 or 40 years. But who has visited Iraq?" American soldiers, for one -- but project administrators and the Iraqi authorities hope to change that in a major way.

http://popular-archaeology.com

WILD ELEPHANTS ON A RAMPAGE

 Rampage video: Wild elephants charge people, kill man in Mysore, India

Two wild elephants went on a rampage in southern India, trampling one person to death and injuring 3. They entered the town from a nearby forest, and charged at people, livestock and vehicles. They were eventually shot with tranquilisers and captured. Officials blame human encroachment on the elephants habitat, forcing them into urban areas in search of food.

Red Moon Rising: Rare lunar eclipse seen around the world

RARE LUNAR ECLIPSE SEEN AROUND THE WORLD    

On June 15, the full moon will turn a deep red for most of the planet - when the longest lunar eclipse in a decade will take place.

Salt men of Iran

Salt men of Iran

 

 In the winter of 1993, miners came across a body with long red hair and a beard, and associated artefacts, in the Chehrabad salt mines located to the west of the city of Zanjan, Iran. They found the remains of a body, a lower leg still inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a pair of woollen trousers, a silver needle, sling, parts of a leather rope, a grindstone, and even a walnut. The body had been buried in a tunnel approximately 45 metres in length. 

As the years went by a further five corpses, including a teenager and a woman, were discovered in the salt mine.

 

http://www.grahamhancock.com/news/index.php?node=22251

Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers

 

Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.
Shown to the world last month, when the first report of a robot exploration of the Great Pyramid was published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l'Egypte (ASAE), the images revealed features that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the monument.
Researchers were particularly intrigued by three red ochre figures painted on the floor of a hidden chamber at the end of a tunnel deep inside the pyramid.

"There are many unanswered questions that these images raise," Rob Richardson, the engineer who designed the robot at the University of Leeds, told Discovery News. "Why is there writing in this space? What does the writing say? There appears to be a masonry cutting mark next to the figures: why was it not cut along this line?" Richardson wondered.

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Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who specializes on ancient Egyptian mathematics, believes he has some answers.
"The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits," Miatello told Discovery News.
The royal cubit, the ancient Egyptian unit of measurement used in the construction of the pyramid, was between 52.3 and 52.5 cm (20.6 to 20.64 inches) in length, and was subdivided into seven palms of four digits (four fingers) each, making it a 28-part measure.
According to Miatello, who has written about the pyramid's numerical patterns in the journal Ankh, and also more recently in PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, multiples of 7, 9 and 11 cubits occur frequently in the design of the Great Pyramid.
Built for the pharaoh Cheops, also known as Khufu, the Great Pyramid is the largest of a family of three pyramids on the Giza plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo and has long been rumored to have hidden passageways leading to secret chambers.Archaeologists have long puzzled over the purpose of four narrow shafts deep inside the pyramid since they were first discovered in 1872.

http://news.discovery.com

 

Amazing UFO video Kazakhstan june 2011

Amazing UFO video Kazakhstan June 2011 , local news has coverage on the story ..  enjoy

BEYOND 2012

Geoff Stray, author of 'Beyond 2012'

http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/

King Tut tomb to get makeover

KING TUT TOMB GET MAKEOVER

Mysterious brown spots in the Tomb of Tutankhamun will be fully investigated during a five-year project to restore the burial of the boy King, Egypt's antiquities department announced today.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has partnered with the California-based Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to work on the conservation and management of the more than 3,000-year-old tomb.
"I am happy that Getty will look at the tomb and preserve its beautiful scenes," Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said in a statement.
Located in the Valley of the Kings, the tomb of Tutankhamen is among the most heavily visited sites in the Theban necropolis. The five-year conservation project follows concern that the large number of people visiting the pharaoh's resting place may be contributing to its physical deterioration.
Discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter with almost all of its contents intact, Tutankhamen's is the smallest of the 26 royal tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings.
Of the tomb's four rooms, only the walls of the burial chamber are decorated.
However, the wall paintings in this chamber, as well as some of the tomb's other surfaces, are marred by disfiguring brown spots, which were first noted by Howard Carter when he discovered the treasure-packed burial.
The nature and origin of the spots have never been fully ascertained, and they are among the technical conservation challenges presented by the tomb.
"I always see the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain. I have worried about these, and have asked experts to examine the scenes," Dr. Zahi Hawass said.

The conservation plan will involve a two-year research period to determine the causes of deterioration, followed by a three-year implementation plan.
"The SCA-GCI project will include scientific analysis of the problems afflicting the wall paintings," said Tim Whalen, director of the GCI. "But that is only one aspect of the project. The ultimate goal of our work with our Egyptian colleagues is to develop a long-term conservation and maintenance plan for this tomb that can serve as a model for preservation of similar sites."

 http://news.discovery.com/history/king-tut-tomb-to-get-makeover.html

Ice may cover parts of Mercury

ICE COVERS PARTS OF MERCURY

The planet closest to the sun appears to have more ice at its poles than does Earth's moon, say scientists analyzing data from the Messenger spacecraft.

 

Despite their proximity to the sun, portions of the surface of Mercury appear to be covered in ice, scientists said Thursday after analyzing about 20,000 new images of the solar system's smallest planet.

The pictures beamed to Earth by the Messenger spacecraft strongly suggest that frozen water — and perhaps other frozen substances — coat portions of impact craters near the planet's north and south poles. Permanently enshrouded in shadow, these surfaces are typically 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. 

http://www.grahamhancock.com/news/index.php?node=22431