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The Drop Cam Project – An Exploration Science Initiative (DAY 1 ) The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, in collaboration with the National Geographic Society, has created a new “Exploration Science™” Program. The Drop Cam Project is among the first…
George Melville: A Survivor, A Rescuer, A National Geographic Founder
Posted by Cathy Hunter on December 28, 2012 
In 1879, National Geographic founder George Melville boarded a ship called the Jeannette for what would become one of the epic stories in early American Arctic exploration. The men on the expedition hoped to find a warm current that might take them to the North Pole; instead the ship was caught in the polar ice pack and drifted nearly two years before it was crushed.
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Forces that have been bridling against environmental regulations and science-based activism may use the India’s Great Power Outage as a cudgel to demolish future restraints on dam construction, coal mining, and other projects.
Posted by Since posting last week about volunteers for a one-way trip to Mars, several of you have written in asking where to sign up. Planetary scientist Pascal Lee at Haughton Crater, Devon Island, wearing the upper torso of an advanced space-exploration concept suit (color-enhanced image). —Photograph courtesy NASA Haughton-Mars Project/Pascal Lee Hearing your comments and suggested…
Today folks using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter announced the discovery of a mineral called magnesium carbonate on Mars. —Image courtesy NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/Brown University At first blush this seems like a pretty dry finding [pardon the pun]. What is a carbonate, and why should I care, you might ask. When I tell you that it’s a mineral…
