Month: November 2011

NASA presents the topographic map of higher resolution of the Moon

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Washington, 18 nov (EFE).-the scientific team that works with images sent by the probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has done the topographic map of higher resolution so far, that spread today the center space Goddard of the NASA.

Scientists from the University of Arizona State in Tempe, participating in this project, have made this map that puts the public view the shape and characteristics of the surface of almost all the moon on a scale of 100 meters per pixel.

The LRO orbiter was launched into space in June 2009 and since the beginning to send its first images has allowed better understanding of the Moon’s surface, design a complete map of its craters and until you see the footprints left by astronauts from missions Apollo.

The appliance has instruments such as the camera’s wide-angle (LROC, for its acronym in English) and a laser altimeter (LOLA) allowing scientists play with great precision the characteristics of the satellite in high resolution.

“Our new topographic Moon view provides the data set that the Lunar scientists had been awaited since the Apollo era,” said Mark Robinson, principal investigator of the camera LROC in the Arizona State University said in a statement released by NASA.

“We can now determine the slopes of all main areas of geological on the moon on a scale of 100 meters,” said the scientist, who explained that these findings will help them to understand how has deformed the crust, the mechanics of impact craters and investigate the nature of their characteristic volcanic

But also, and since that was the main objective with which the mission was launched, will help “better plan future human and robotic missions to the Moon”.

The NASA is studying new destinations to continue exploration beyond low Earth orbit and expected to return to the Moon, reaching an asteroid and step, for the first time in history, soil Martian in a period of about twenty years.

The Goddard Space Center is responsible for four main research branches within NASA: Earth Sciences, astrophysics, heliophysics and exploration of the Solar System. EFE

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The future of space travel focused an exhibition in New York

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New York, 19 nov (EFE).-the future of space travel stars in the new exhibition of the Museum of history Natural New York, which recreates through simulators, models and real objects what coming advances in human in this matter.

“What this exhibition shows is that space exploration is just beginning, that there are fabulous to do things,” he told Efe the person in charge of Astrophysics at the Museum and curator of the exhibition, Michael Shara.

The exhibition can be visited from today until August 12 under the title “beyond planet Earth: the future of space exploration”, runs through some of these fabulous developments, like the possibility to make space tourism or colonizing Mars, also called Planet red.

Until a few years ago, these space missions only were part of the film and science fiction literature, but nowadays are various project Center scientists.

Is the case with the plan to colonize Mars, which will be a little closer before the American Aerospace Agency (NASA) send in 2012 to that planet his robot Explorer “Curiosity”, an important step to ensure that the human can establish themselves there in the future.

The sample hosts a replica in real size of this robot, as well as several simulators interactive to give visitors an idea of what will be exploring the red planet and turn it into a place more livable.

“In the future we can go to Mars and begin to do so in a place closest to the Earth,” said Shara, who added that “a cold world, lifeless will become a place that can support crops, animals and human beings, which will be a support to us”.

Through a detailed demo, the New York Museum also deals with the project to build a base at the pole of the Moon, because there is a point in this place that offers almost constant daylight hours and enough to generate electricity.

Thus, the world that imagined filmmakers such as Georges Méliès (1861-1938), director of “journey to the Moon” (1902), is increasingly less science fiction.

Méliès showed an inhabited Moon that received the impact of a rocket with a few explorers aboard, while now the New York Museum discovers its visitors a prototype of housing that may one day serve as home to the astronauts on the moon.

In addition, the exhibition includes a reproduction of what would become a “lunar elevator”, a structure that would serve to facilitate the transportation of human beings and goods between the lunar base and the Earth.

Other sections of the exhibition dealt with the explorations of one of the moons of Jupiter, which according to scholars might host life, or which are out of the solar system and stars have planets themselves.

While these projects are increasingly as most likely, the head of the Museum recalled that they continue to rely on large investments, what added difficulties.

“If Russia, United States, Europe and Japan join instead of investing in projects separately, we could go to Mars in twenty years, but if they do not we take 50 or even 100 years,” estimated Shera.

In this line, the sample emphasizes not only the appeal of the travel into space, but also the importance of collaboration in such projects, “something that allowed to be built for example the international space station”, said Shera.

Another aspect that explores the sample are space tourist travel, through vehicles such as aircraft from 2009 is developing the company Virgin Galactic, which plans to offer flights about 100 kilometers above the Earth at a price of $ 200,000 for passage.

The Museum also devotes a section of the exhibition space missions historical as the launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1958, the first voyage of man in space, which made the Russian Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) in 1961, or the launch in 1990 for the Hubble Space Telescope, which still operates.

Photo courtesy of the Museum of history Natural New York which is one of the objects which is part of the new exhibition “beyond of the planet Earth: the future of space exploration”. EFE/file

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Is it possible to restore the Everglades?

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Miami (USA.)(UU.), 19 nov (EFE).-the Everglades, the largest wetland in United States, face environmental restoration project more expensive in history with the challenge of avoiding two threats, human pressure and climate change, and save a natural sanctuary of which depends on water to drink 7 million people.

The society of environmental journalists (EYW) just celebrated in Miami its annual Congress focused on knowing the controversies of the recovery plan of this National Park, which extends from Lake Okeechobee to the South of the peninsula of Florida.

The Everglades represent the largest subtropical wetlands of the northern hemisphere, while urban development and other human activities has been limited to 20% of its original size.

Their flooded fields and forests of mangroves (red, black and white) are guarantors of Florida available fresh water, as well as the conservation of unique ecosystems, climatic combination Caribbean and North American, and vital for migratory birds and species at risk like the puma of Florida.

The growth of the population of Florida and infrastructure led to the American Congress to declare the Everglades National Park in 1947; to expand the protected area to the 6,000 square kilometers in 1989; and to approve the environmental restoration plan more expensive in the history in the year 2000: 20 billion dollars to 69 projects run in 30 years.

The “River of grass” has the higher titles of international safeguard: biosphere reserve, world heritage and international importance Ramsar.

They are the same statements that has a Spanish, wetland Doñana “of similar value and identical threats”, underlined Robert Johnson, director of resources natural of the South of Florida.

“As in Doñana, the only recourse of the Everglades is the water that stores rainwater;” “and the great problem, also coincidental, is to the only wetland arriving between 20 and 30 per cent of the water that should be” notes Johnson.

Where is that 70-80% that does not flow from Lake Okeechobee to the South is? A network of 2,500 kilometres of canals and levees, and 125 structures for the control of the water absorb her for human consumption and, above all, for the sugar plantations and 7 production plants energy from the environment.

“Sometimes the structures that control the flow of water remain closed and the water does not reach down to ecosystems;” “and in others, there are flooding them and polluting them with all kinds of nutrients from agriculture,” says Dawn Shirreffs, Manager of the program of restoration of the Everglades.

This fact makes the key to the regeneration of the Everglades in water, “and that means three things: store during the wet season;” “clean it and remove the barriers that prevent the water to flow from North to South,” summarizes Shirreffs.

These three functions in lathe that is articulated today tens of restoration projects being undertaken by the federal and State Governments, in collaboration with scientists and NGOs, “made them the wetland in own way, but the barriers and pollution prevent this natural process, notes Stephen Davis, spokesman of the Everglades Foundation.

These threats have joined the consequences of climate change, especially the rise in the level of the sea-25 centimetres in the last 50 years-, which has flooded salt water wetlands and aquifers of the Everglades.

The forecasts point to a rise in the level of the sea from 46 to 64 centimeters over the next hundred years, and scientists agree that the only solution “is to restore the flow of freshwater”.

Actions to achieve this include the purchase of land to sugar factories; agreements with farmers so that the water is clean in his own estates and her back refined; or the elevation of almost 18 kilometres of the highway that crosses the wetland: Tamiami (joins the cities of Tampa and Miami).

Environmentalists reported, however, that “East the restoration effort is contradicted by sugar industry subsidies;” the free transfer of water to the electric companies; “or the little effort to United States to stop climate change”.

Point then is an investment in the restoration? The Everglades have so many people and institutions working against him in his favour; and latter certainly them save this wetland “is a test” not just for United States but for the humanity.

Photograph taken in November 2007 which saw a gap in the Everglades National Park, in Florida (es.)(UU.). EFE/file

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Chevron says error of pressure resulted in spill in Brazil: daily

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – an error of calculation of the pressure of the Sea project Frade Chevron inside caused a spill of oil off the coast of Brazil last week, he published Saturday a local newspaper, quoting the President of Chevron Brazil.

The spill occurred because there was an error in the injection of mud heavy in the tank to prevent the return of oil through the pipeline, said the newspaper O State of S.Paulo.

“Underestimate the pressure of the tank.” “The weight of the mud was planned for another pressure,” he told State George Buck, President of the subsidiary Chevron’s Brazil.

The field Frade is located in the Campos Basin, which produces most of the oil of Brazil, in places where the sea reaches depths of 1.2 kilometers.

Chevron had previously said that the spill came from a natural filtration of the seafloor and had no relationship with the production from Frade. The company is now investigating why was badly calculated pressure and why was the spill, said Buck.

The newspaper also said that the federal police of Brazil is investigating if Chevron was trying to achieve in an irregular manner an area deep below the sea bed known as the subsal, a region the size of the State of New York is believed to contain about 50 billion barrels of oil reserves.

The ability of the team of drilling that is using the company in the project reaches up to 7,600 m, while oil reserves of the area lie about half of that distance, according to experts of the national agency of petroleum, Natural Gas and biofuels (ANP), said State.

“One of the hypotheses with which we work is that the accident could have occurred because the company drilled deeper than the limits,” said Fabio Scliar, head of the Division of environment and historical heritage of the police federal, according to the newspaper.

The company has permission to drill distances, provided that communicate their plans to reserve in advance, said the newspaper.

Scliar had told Reuters this week that the earliest evidence showed that the drilling of Chevron was 500 metres beyond what is permitted.

The police are also investigating if Chevron has expatriate working illegally in the country.

Brazil Chevron officials were not available immediately for comment.

Brazil is located on huge reserves of oil in deep waters, which were discovered during the past decade. The Government is eager to exploit these deposits as a new source of income for Governments federal, State and municipal.

(Inae Riveras report.) (Edited in Spanish by Patrick Abusleme)

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The President of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador operated, with success, of the heart

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Quito, 19 nov (EFE).-the President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference (CEE) and Archbishop of Guayaquil, Mgr. Antonio Arregui, came out with success of an operation open-heart, reported the Church of Ecuador.

Intervention “open heart and beating”, carried out in the Hospital Clinic Kennedy of Guayaquil, began today at 10.30 and lasted until 16: 00 local time (1530 to the 2100 GMT) and concluded successfully, so state Arregui “is critical but in recovery”, explained a statement of the EEC.

On the morning of November 17, Arregui was admitted to the hospital by “a massive stroke in the anterior face of the heart”, but was achieved to stabilize through catheterization, “which is why his painting improved dramatically, despite presenting significant obstructions” and was rescheduled for later surgery.

This morning, however, worsened the clinical picture “because of the critical state of the lesions, producing a”shock”heart, complicated by respiratory deficiencies”, he noted the communiqué, which led doctors to perform an immediate intervention “to rescue the greatest possible number of heart muscle”.

“He introduced four”bypass”coronary, resulting in a slow improvement, but progressive”, stated in a press conference Dr. Edgar Lama Valverde, responsible for the operation. Surgeon

Lama pointed out that the condition of Arregui is now critical, but stable and have to “wait 72 hours to see that all goes well”.

Photograph taken in July 2008 that saw the President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference (EEC), Monsignor Antonio Arregui, said today, July 28, 2008, in Quito (Ecuador), who came out with success of an operation open heart. EFE/file

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips