VerveEarth is a unique map based navigation system where in bloggers can pin their blog content to a country, city or neighborhood on the map. The founders, Clayton and Brad have recently launched VerveEarth beta bundled with some cool features with the mission to bring bloggers from around the world and organize them by geography, so that they are just a single click away of each other. 
Just zoom in to your favorite destination on the map, and you can find many blogs pinned by bloggers. You can explore their blogs, share content with them, write on their wall, add the blog to your favorites and be their fan. All these can be done without having to leave VerveEarth or open a new tab because the newly introduced minibrowser feature allows you to view the blog in it original form and do all other stuff under the same VerveEarth landing page. 
You can stay connected with your favorite blogs with the VerveEarth Widget that can show the bloggers you chose as your favorite and it can also be added to your blog just by embedding a small piece of code. The widget can also be customized to offers you quick access to some of the top blogs on any chosen topic.There is also VerveEarth Blogger Chat option that is made available partnering with meebo where you can chat with fellow blogger that have joined VerveEarth chatroom.
See you soon on VerveEarth and also don't forget to add me to your favorites. Here is the direct link to my blog location on VerveEarth
http://www.verveearth.com/dest/user/20062
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Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 that is visible from Bhopal is the only Total Solar Eclipse that can be seen from this place for this entire century.
Here is the list of solar eclipses that are visible from Bhopal, India in this century.
A time followed by "(r)" means the event is already in progress at sunrise,
while a time followed by "(s)" means the event is still in progress at sunset. In
such cases, the times and circumstances given are for sunrise or sunset,
respectively.
As you can see in the table, only on 22 July 2009 the Eclipse type is Total rest being partial.
So, Watching this amazing event can be considered as once in a life time opportunity for all. And this being the most powerful of all the solar eclipses that occur in this century, strict safety precautions should be taken before viewing it.
Stay on the safer side and enjoy the amazing spectacle!
Continue Reading...
Here is the list of solar eclipses that are visible from Bhopal, India in this century.
A time followed by "(r)" means the event is already in progress at sunrise,
while a time followed by "(s)" means the event is still in progress at sunset. In
such cases, the times and circumstances given are for sunrise or sunset,
respectively.
As you can see in the table, only on 22 July 2009 the Eclipse type is Total rest being partial.
So, Watching this amazing event can be considered as once in a life time opportunity for all. And this being the most powerful of all the solar eclipses that occur in this century, strict safety precautions should be taken before viewing it.
Stay on the safer side and enjoy the amazing spectacle!
Continue Reading...
Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. Phoenix has spotted the sublimation of probable water ice in a trench excavated by its robotic arm by comparing two photos taken on the 21st and 25th days of the mission, aka Sols 20 and 24 (15 and 19 June). The mission has the right instruments for analyzing soil and ice to determine whether the local environment just below the surface of far-northern Mars has ever been favorable for microbial life. Key factors are whether the water ever becomes available as a liquid and whether organic compounds are present that could provide chemical building blocks and energy for life. Phoenix landed on May 25 for a Mars surface mission planned to last for three months.
These color images were acquired by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s Surface Stereo Imager on the 21st and 25th days of the mission, or Sols 20 and 24 (June 15 and 19, 2008).These images show sublimation of ice in the trench informally called “Dodo-Goldilocks” over the course of four days.
In the lower left corner of the left image, a group of lumps is visible. In the right image, the lumps have disappeared, similar to the process of evaporation.
The key new evidence is that chunks of bright material exposed by digging on June 15 and still present on June 16 had vaporized by June 19. “This tells us we’ve got water ice within reach of the arm, which means we can continue this investigation with the tools we brought with us,” said Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station, lead scientist for Phoenix’s Surface Stereo Imager camera. He said the disappearing chunks could not have been carbon-dioxide ice at the local temperatures because that material would not have been stable for even one day as a solid.
The disappearing chunks were in a trench to the northwest of the lander. A hard material, possibly more ice, but darker than the bright material in the first trench, has been detected in a second trench, to the northeast of the lander. Scientists plan next to have Phoenix collect and analyze surface soil from a third trench near the second one, and later to mechanically probe and sample the hard layer.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
Phoenix scientists are now assured they have a complete soil-layer profile in Wonderland's "Snow White" extended trench.
By rasping to icy soil, the robotic arm on Phoenix proved it could flatten the layer where soil meets ice, exposing the icy flat surface below the soil. Scientists can now proceed with plans to scoop and scrape samples into Phoenix's various analytical instruments. Scientists will test samples to determine if some ice in the soil may have been liquid in the past during warmer climate cycles.
Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations. Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth.
Download Worldwide Telescope your copy for free (Windows only).
