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Vienna 2007 (EGU in the press, radio, tv) |
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
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| Jonathan Amos, BBC News, UK |
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UK tests Moon lander technology 20/04/2007
British engineers are designing a Moon landing mission that would also test key technologies to take to Mars.
The MoonTwins concept would put two probes on the lunar surface - one
at each pole - to do science experiments.The work is being undertaken
by the aerospace company Astrium UK at the request of the European
Space Agency.Esa's future missions have been a topic of discussion here
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Tiny fossils reveal ice history 19/04/2007
Tiny they may be, but fossil diatoms discovered deep under the ocean
floor are revealing new details about Antarctica's warmer past.
The single-celled algae were pulled up by the Antarctic Geological
Drilling (Andrill) Program, which has been operating from the Ross Ice
Shelf.
Scientists say the diatoms will help them understand future climate changes.
He was reporting Andrill's progress here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly meeting.
Dr Naish said this season's drilling had successfully retrieved a
1,285m-long core of rock - the longest core drilled anywhere on the
Antarctic margin, and a record of past climate conditions that probably
spans some 10 million years into the past.
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Drillers target earthquake zone 18/04/2007
It promises to be one of the grand scientific challenges of this decade.
Researchers are about to drill down into an earthquake zone at the Nankai Trough off the coast of Japan.
The project, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the
next 10 years, is being coordinated by the Integrated Ocean Drilling
Programme.
It seeks to understand the causes of deadly quakes and tsunami by
pulling up cores for study and by putting down sensors to monitor
changes in the rock.
"The place we are going to has a history of disastrous earthquakes and tsunami every 100 or 200 years; and these have resulted in the deaths of many people," explained Chief Project Scientist Masataka Kinoshita, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec).
"There is a strong need in the Japanese community to know what is going on under the sea floor," he told BBC News.
He was speaking here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly meeting.
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Kilimanjaro's ice set to linger 17/04/2007
A fresh assessment suggests the famous ice fields on Africa's tallest mountain will be around for decades yet.
Recent concerns that climate warming would rob Mount Kilimanjaro of all
its glaciers within 20 years are overly pessimistic, say Austrian
scientists.Their weather station data and modelling work indicate the
tropical ice should last well beyond 2040.The group's assessment was
presented here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
meeting.It acts as a counterpoint to the most doom-laden projections
for the 5,895m-high (19,340ft) peak, which draws thousands of tourists
intrigued by the idea of seeing ice just three degrees south of the
equator.
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