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• 65-Foot Deep Sinkhole in Germany
• Biological Recovery at Mount St. Helens
• Mars Rover: First NASA Mission on Cloud Computing
• Silica Evidence of Formerly-Habitable Zone on Mars?
• Facebook Members Recommend
• A Competitive Supply Chain for Rare Earths

65-Foot Deep Sinkhole in Germany Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:30 PM PDT The Associated Press has footage of a 65-foot deep, 130-foot wide sinkhole in Schmalkalden, Germany.

Biological Recovery at Mount St. Helens Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:26 PM PDT A video and article on the National Science Foundation website explore the recovery of plants, insects and animals in the Mount St. Helens blast zone, nearly 30 years after the 1980 eruption.

Mars Rover: First NASA Mission on Cloud Computing Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:13 PM PDT The Mars Rover team is the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. “Cloud computing is a way to gain fast flexibility in computing ability by ordering capacity on demand — as if from the clouds — and paying only for what is used.” Quoted from the NASA press release.

Silica Evidence of Formerly-Habitable Zone on Mars? Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:03 PM PDT “Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars.” – Quoted from the NASA news release.

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A Competitive Supply Chain for Rare Earths Posted: 02 Nov 2010 07:23 PM PDT Some people believe that the United States is in a compromised position because China controls over 95% of the rare earth element production – and those elements are essential for defense, electronics and a number of energy applications.

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