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Skatz Official Russian Ambassador
Join Date: Aug 2012
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BP eyes $4bn buyback with Russian cash
 British oil company BP may use the proceeds from the sale of its stake TNK-BP to purchase $4 billion worth of its own shares, after agreeing last week to pay record criminal fines for the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. Read Full Article at RT.com More... |
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11-19-2012, 03:21 PM
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Thee Nasa
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Whitewater Lake Rock
A rind that appears bluish in this false-color view covers portions of the surface of a rock called \"Whitewater Lake\" in the top half of the view from NASA\'s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This rind is similar in appearance to weathering rinds previously seen by Opportunity on rocks elsewhere within the Meridiani Planum region where the rover has worked since landing in 2004. Whitewater Lake is in the \"Matijevic Hill\" portion of the \"Cape York\" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater.
The three exposures through different filters that were composited into this image were taken by Opportunity\'s panoramic camera (Pancam) during the mission\'s 3,064th Martian day, or sol (Sept. 6, 2012). The view is presented in false color that enhances color differences among various geological materials in the scene. Whitewater Lake is the large flat rock in the top half of the image. From left to right it is about 30 inches (0.8 meter) across. The dark blue nubby rock to the lower left is \"Kirkwood,\" which bears non-hematite spherules shown in a close-up image at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16139 . The rocks to the lower right look like breccias -- a type of rock containing jumbled fragments cemented together. They resemble other rocks in the area classed as the Shoemaker formation, which is hypothesized to hold deposits of material ejected when an impact excavated Endeavour Crater billions of years ago. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. More... |
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11-19-2012, 03:21 PM
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Thee Nasa
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Seasonal Swirl
Titan\'s swirling south-polar vortex stands out brightly against the other clouds of the south pole (seen at the lower right of the image). The Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the development of the south polar vortex to help understand seasonal changes on Saturn\'s largest moon.
This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North on Titan is up and rotated 9 degrees to the left. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2012 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 750,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 74 degrees. Image scale is 4 miles (7 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA\'s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute More... |
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11-19-2012, 03:21 PM
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Possibly French
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Samuel Hamilton Walker
 Don't let his nice clothes and boyish face fool you, Samuel Hamilton Walker was a Texas Range and fierce fighter. As a Texas Ranger in the first half of the 1800's, Walker recognized the need for a sidearm with more firepower for fighting from horseback. He met with Samuel Colt and described his idea for a more pistol that packed a more powerful punch. Colt took his ideas, and created the famed Colt Walker, the most powerful sidearm of the day. Walker died in Battle in Huamantla, Mexico in 1847. Some reports say that he died with a Colt Walker in each hand.   More... |
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11-19-2012, 03:21 PM
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Possibly French
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Oryx, Namibia
This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images
Oryx captured in Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia just after sunset. They are heading through the dunes in search of food and water. (This photo and caption were submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest.) See all contest entries » Vote for your favorite » Submit your best shot »  More... |
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