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[NASA]

This image shows a hill which has eroded into a structure of pits and troughs. One possible cause of this type of degradation could be loss of ice from the surface material.Similar textures are seen in several nearby craters as well as in other regions of the planet.Written by: HiRISE Science Team

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[NASA]

The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.This picture, captured on Feb. 25, 2011, was taken about 12 weeks after the storm began, and the clouds by this time had formed a tail that wrapped around the planet. Some of the clouds moved south and got caught up in a current that flows to the east (to the right) relative to the storm head. This tail, which appears as slightly blue clouds south and west (left) of the storm head, can be seen encountering the storm head in this view.This storm is the largest, most intense storm observed on Saturn by NASA’s Voyager or Cassini spacecraft. It is still active today. As scientists have tracked this storm over several months, they have found it covers 500 times the area of the largest of the southern hemisphere storms observed earlier in the Cassini mission. The shadow cast by Saturn's rings has a strong seasonal effect, and it is possible that the switch to powerful storms now being located in the northern hemisphere is related to the change of seasons after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Huge storms called Great White Spots have been observed in previous Saturnian years (each of which is about 30 Earth years), usually appearing in late northern summer. Saturn is now experiencing early northern spring, so this storm, if it is a Great White Spot, is happening earlier than usual. This storm is about as large as the largest of the Great White Spots, which also encircled the planet but had latitudinal sizes ranging up to 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles). The Voyager and Cassini spacecraft were not at Saturn for previous Great White Spot appearances.The storm is a prodigious source of radio noise, which comes from lightning deep in the planet's atmosphere. The lightning is produced in the water clouds, where falling rain and hail generate electricity. The mystery is why Saturn stores energy for decades and releases it all at once. This behavior is unlike that at Jupiter and Earth, which have numerous storms going on at all times.This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring plane.Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 80 miles (129 kilometers) per pixel.The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

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[PokerNews]

Day 39 is done. Nick Binger and Hassan Anter take down the final two preliminary events of the 2011 WSOP. Also, Ben Lamb leads Day 1b of the Main Event.

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[BluffMagazine]

Hellmuth kept his grand entrance as low key as Hellmuth can be this year It didn’t take a math major to realize that Day 1C is substantially larger than the other starting days of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event thus far, but for any doubters, the numbers are in. More than 2,000 [...]

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[CardPlayer]

Nick Binger won $397,073 and his first World Series of Poker when he took down the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better event, defeating 2009 $50k H.O.R.S.E. champion David Bach heads-up. Card Player TV caught up with him in this edition of 'Battle for the Bracelets.'

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[NASA]

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden congratulates Launch Director Michael Leinbach, facing camera, in Firing Room Four of the Launch Control Center shortly after the space shuttle Atlantis launched on Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis on the STS-135 mission is the final flight of the shuttle program. STS-135 is slated to be a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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[Kenan Thompson]

Statistics reveal that victimizations of African Americans from violent crime such as murder, rape, sexual assault, burglary and robbery are committed by African Americans. We live with these facts and to a certain extent accept them. But what if these...(read more)

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[Adolf Hitler]

Forum: Down Under Newslinks Posted By: LesPatterson Post Time: 07-09-2011 at 09:52 PM

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[Carl Culture]

A new comedy web series with a Trek style to it is debuting later this month online (on July 18th). Learn all about it HERE.



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