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Discovery - Rarely Seen Shuttle Activities (Slideshow)

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days (01/2/2012 - 07/2/2012)

Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World - Last 7 days

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This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). Magnitudes 4.5 and above are in bold font. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the maps.)
The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's "DATE" to get a detailed report.
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Update time = Tue Feb 7 19:45:56 UTC 2012

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.1	2012/02/07 16:29:30	35.419	-96.558	5.0	OKLAHOMA
MAP	4.5	2012/02/07 16:16:42	14.781	-87.561	24.0	HONDURAS
MAP	4.5	2012/02/07 15:37:42	-6.997	126.512	415.6	BANDA SEA
MAP	4.6	2012/02/07 14:20:51	10.015	123.113	10.0	NEGROS - CEBU REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP	4.8	2012/02/07 13:37:56	35.694	140.047	75.7	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	5.0	2012/02/07 13:30:05	45.560	142.212	315.5	HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP	4.9	2012/02/07 13:08:05	10.173	123.344	10.2	NEGROS - CEBU REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP	4.9	2012/02/07 12:02:11	-37.964	-75.175	16.2	OFF THE COAST OF BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	2.8	2012/02/07 11:52:54	63.400	-149.330	94.4	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/02/07 11:08:42	18.972	-64.998	8.1	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.0	2012/02/07 09:06:42	18.574	-66.803	22.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.9	2012/02/07 08:31:22	12.674	48.691	10.0	GULF OF ADEN
MAP	2.8	2012/02/07 07:45:57	59.918	-153.093	118.1	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/02/07 06:13:39	37.200	-90.316	0.1	SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
MAP	4.9	2012/02/07 04:05:38	10.297	123.190	10.0	NEGROS - CEBU REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP	4.3	2012/02/07 02:45:49	14.901	-93.230	72.9	OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP	2.6	2012/02/07 02:34:20	33.363	-116.386	12.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.8	2012/02/07 02:18:27	-3.641	-77.352	54.1	PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
MAP	4.6	2012/02/07 00:33:40	-3.493	123.297	30.0	SULAWESI, INDONESIA

50 Fabulous Deep-Space Nebula Photos

Cause of Strange Cosmic Shapes Pinned Down
Credit: nullThe Butterfly Nebula exhibits the classic hourglass shape of many planetary nebulas…

Intricate Crab Nebula Poses for Hubble Close-Up
Credit: NASA/ESA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University).The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula in one of the largest images ever assembed by the space-based observatory.

Glowing Nebula Looks Like Giant Human Face in New Photo

The Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory has imaged a region of star formation called NGC 3324. The intense radiation from several of NGC 3324's massive, blue-white stars has carved out a cavity in the surrounding gas and dust.
CREDIT: ESO
The wispy clouds of a distant nebula bursting with newborn stars take on an eerie face-like shape sculpted by stellar winds in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile.

Best Space Photos of the Week - Feb. 4, 2012

 Marbled Earth, Rolling Dunes on Mars and a Nebula With a Mouth
Credit: NASA/NOAAFrom a stunning image of our marbled earth to city lights from space, it's been a remarkable week for space photography.

 City Lights at Night: Astronaut's Amazing View from Space
Credit: NASAA remarkable nighttime panorama taken from the International Space Station captured a dazzling cobweb of city lights as the orbiting complex flew roughly 240 miles (386 kilometers) overhead.

International Space Station (Slideshow)

The International Space Station and the Docked Space Shuttle Endeavour

Mars Curiosity Rover - 12 Images

Year in Space 2011

2011 was a year of farewells in space: an end to the space shuttle program ... NASA's official abandonment of the Spirit rover on Mars ... and the leavetaking of NASA's next Mars rover. This unprecedented image shows a different kind of leavetaking. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli snapped the picture of Endeavour docked to the International Space Station on May 23 as he was leaving in a Soyuz spacecraft. This was the only opportunity to photograph the space station and shuttle together from an orbital vantage point.

NASA Mars Science Laboratory + Curiosity Rover First Look

By Xeni Jardin


[photo, above: MSL's descent stage, which files the rover down to Mars' surface using eight rockets, and lowers it on a tether for landing. The orange spheres are propellant tanks.]

This week, Boing Boing was invited to visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the first and only opportunity for media to enter the Pasadena, CA clean room where NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, and other components of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft have been built for launch in late 2011 from Florida.
Shipment from the clean room to Florida will begin next month. Curiosity rover recently completed tests under simulated space and Mars-surface environmental conditions in another building and is back in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for other tests. Spacecraft assembly and testing specialists showed Boing Boing the rover and the other spacecraft components, including the descent stage "sky crane."
Photographer Joseph Linaschke visited on behalf of Boing Boing (he donned a bunny suit for the occasion) and shot this series of photos. More below.
Captions for Boing Boing by Ashwin Vasavada, a scientist with the NASA JPL MSL program.

What is a Weather satellite ?

 The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. These meteorological satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems.