London, Oct 16 : NASA scientists have found the key to keep harmful moon dust at bay— a little sunshine.
Astronauts landing on the moon have to tackle with lunar dust, which is easily disturbed and highly abrasive, reports New Scientist.
The dust cannot only damage equipment, but could also prove dangerous to astronauts'' lungs, if it gets into inhabited areas.
Thus, study leader Paul Hintze of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has found that a 1-metre-wide lens that focuses sunlight can melt and fuse the dust.
The finding could protect a future moon base from the fine powder on the lunar surface.
London, October 16 : The Queen’s image has featured on the homepage logo of Internet search engine ‘Google’ to mark her visit to the organisation’s London office.
The ‘Google doodle’ has added the feature to its existing collection of logos, which are changed periodically to mark national holidays or anniversaries of major events.
The exclusive logo fits in a profile of Her Majesty and a crown, reports the Independent.
London, Oct 16 : A rare tombstone that shows a Roman soldier with the severed head of a barbarian, has gone on permanent display at a museum in Lancaster, UK.
According to a report by BBC News, the tombstone, dating to around 100AD, was discovered in 2005.
It was found during an excavation in Aldcliffe Road by the Greater Manchester Archaeology Unit, which is based at the University of Manchester.
London, Oct. 16 : A huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, including terror-related ones.
Senior sources have told The Times that as more and more phone calls are routed over the web – using software such as Skype – police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where and for how long.
The key difficulty facing police is that, unlike mobile phone companies, which retain call data for billing purposes, Internet call companies have no reason to keep the material.
London, Oct 16 : It has been found that the body parts of the dwarf planet Haumea keep turning up in new places throughout the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.
Haumea, previously known as 2003 EL61, was discovered in 2005. The oblong object is nearly as long as Pluto and is covered by almost pure water ice.
According to a report in New Scientist, Haumea seems to have led a very violent life, with its two moons likely forming in an ancient collision.
The dwarf planet boasts two small moons thought to have been created after a collision with another denizen of the Kuiper belt billions of years ago.
London, Oct 16 : NASA scientists have found the key to keep harmful moon dust at bay— a little sunshine.
London, October 16 : The Queen’s image has featured on the homepage logo of Internet search engine ‘Google’ to mark her visit to the organisation’s London office.
London, Oct 16 : A rare tombstone that shows a Roman soldier with the severed head of a barbarian, has gone on permanent display at a museum in Lancaster, UK.
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