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Pandas in Ocean Park, Hong Kong
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Pandas at San Diego Zoo
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature 10 month old Zhen Zhen seen June 13, 2008. Also seen are parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao. Zhen is the third cub born to this couple.
California Condors
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature Ventana Wildlife Society helps restore condor populations on the Central Coast.
Condors in Baja California and Beyond
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature Michael P. Wallace is a Reintroduction Specialist at the Zoological Society of San Diego. Learn about the challenges and successes of the condor release program. Series: "Across Cultures" [Science] [Humanities]
NASA Phoenix Lander - First Raw Images From Mars
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature NASA's "Phoenix" lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars on the evening of May 25, 2008. It touched down on the Red planet's Northern hemisphere near its North Pole in the first ever successful landing of a probe on Mars' North Pole. The landing -- dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" -- was a nerve-wracking experience for mission managers, who have witnessed the failure of similar missions. In mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, they celebrated the lander's much-anticipated entry. The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the "better, faster, cheaper" program, formulated by then-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin to beef up planetary exploration on a lean budget. But Polar malfunctioned during its descent into Mars' atmosphere in 1999 and crashed. An investigation concluded that as many as a dozen design flaws or malfunctions doomed the spacecraft. The failure of that mission, as well as another spacecraft called the Mars Climate Orbiter the same year, led to NASA to put future missions on hold and rethink the "better, faster, cheaper" approach. Mars Surveyor went to the warehouse. Phoenix marks the first time a probe has successfully landed on the surface of Mars since the Viking landers of 1976. The Phoenix's 90-day mission is to analyze the soils and permafrost of Mars' arctic tundra for signs of past or present life. The lander is equipped with a robotic arm capable of scooping up ice and dirt to look for organic evidence that life once existed there, or even exists now.
NASA Phoenix Spacecraft successfully lands in Plan
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed in the Red Planet's northern polar region on Sunday, where it will begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life. Less than two hours later, the Phoenix Mars Lander beamed back four dozen black-and-white images including one of its foot sitting on Martian soil amid tiny rocks. Others included the horizon of the arctic plain and ground with polygon patterns similar to what can be found in Earth's permafrost regions. "Absolutely beautiful," said Dan McCleese, a chief scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It looks like a good place to start digging." Cheers swept through mission control when the touchdown signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander was detected after a nailbiting descent. Engineers and scientists hugged and high-fived one another. "In my dreams it couldn't have gone as perfectly as it went," project manager Barry Goldstein said. "It went right down the middle." The initial pictures were primarily to give engineers information on the condition of the lander including its power supply and the health of its science instruments. An image showed the lander unfurled its solar panels as planned after the dust settled. Initial results show Phoenix landed almost level, tilted at a quarter of a degree. "The hardest part is over. There's still a lot of drama left," said Goldstein, who kept up a JPL tradition by passing out bowls of lucky peanuts during the landing. Phoenix plunged into the Martian atmosphere at more than 12,000 mph after a 10-month, 422 million-mile voyage through space. The lander kept in contact with Earth through the orbiting Mars Odyssey during the entire "seven minutes of terror." It performed a choreographed dance that included unfurling its parachute, shedding its heat shield and backshell, and firing thrusters to slow to a 5 mph touchdown. The radio signal confirming the landing came at 4:53 p.m. PDT. "Touchdown detected!! We're on the surface of Mars and there is celebration in Mission Control!!" JPL engineer Brent Shockley blogged from inside mission control. It's the first successful soft landing on Mars since the twin Viking landers touched down in 1976. NASA's twin rovers, which successfully landed on Mars four years ago, used a combination of parachutes and cushioned air bags to bounce to the surface. Mission chief scientist Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, had two words to describe the landing: "Picture perfect."
World Wildlife Fund Advert
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature A short advert for the World Wildlife Fund, completed for my MA.
World Wildlife Fund
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Chairman of the World Wildlife Fund,Bruce Babbitt
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Governor Bruce Babbitt, Environment versus Immigration. This is Aaron Harber. Please join me this week as one of the most successful and popular public servants to come out of the West is my guest on the program. None other than former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt is featured as we discuss the West and related aspects of national politics. Of course, Governor Babbitt also served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and now is Chairman of the World Wildlife Fund. So watch The Aaron Harber Show this week to hear Babitts take on issues from the environment to immigration.
WWF-animals [[5/6/08]]
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WWF - world wildlife fund - message
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature WWF - world wildlife fund - message... Please help us NOW and for future generations... go to: http://www.wwf.org/
Earth Hour Movie - Narrated by Jeremy Piven
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature On Saturday, March 29 at 8pm millions of people...
WWF: World Wildlife Fund
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Amazon Rainforest, Brazil - The Nature Conservancy
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature Perhaps the most mysterious and magical place on Earth, the Amazon contains the largest expanse of tropical forest in the world and harbors approximately one-third of its species. Tropical birds, pink and gray river dolphins, amazonian manatees, spider monkeys and jaguars all find their home in this vast wilderness as do ancient indigenous communities that have lived in these forests for hundreds of years. As the Amazon Rainforest faces rapid deforestation, The Nature Conservancy is working to protect this wondrous forest and the way of life it supports.
The Nature Conservancy: Sightings of Springbok and
pingnews PINGNews Science, Technology and Nature On Day 9 of his trek, Sanjayan, a lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy spots Springbok and zebra trying to cool down by catching a slight breeze. Sanjayan is spending two weeks tackling the 300-kilometer journey across the Namib desert despite the fact that there are no records of any human ever crossing Africas arid lands of the Namib on foot. All in the name of conservation.
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