Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6 Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6 May 2, 2012: The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. The scientific term for the phenomenon is "perigee moon." Such is the case on May 5th at 11:34 pm Eastern Daylight Time1 when the Moon reaches perigee. Okay, the Moon is 14% bigger than usual, but can you really tell the difference? The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. Folklore holds that all kinds of wacky things happen under the light of a full Moon. The majority of modern studies, however, show no correlation between the phase of the Moon and the incidence of crime, sickness, or human behavior. It's true that a perigee full Moon brings with it extra-high "perigean tides," but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this is nothing to worry about. Super perigee Moons are actually fairly common. Author:Dr.
What It's Like to Be an Astronaut: Amazing Videos of the View From Space | Wired Science If you're the sort of person who enjoys looking out of airplane windows, watching landscapes pass and Earth unfold, then see these videos from the International Space Station. Assembled from photographic sequences captured in April and May, the videos show Earth from an orbital perspective. Continents pass in minutes. Glories like the northern lights and a solar eclipse fit in their entirety within one person's sight. Each clip represents a few minutes of flight time, with photographs taken at a rate of roughly once per second. The videos are kept at NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth site, where high-resolution versions can also be found.
Symphony of Science Encuentran dos nuevas pirámides egipcias con ayuda de Google Earth Ver galería Esfinges de Egipto Un equipo de científicos estadounidenses ha descubierto dos emplazamientos en la rivera del Nilo, a unos 140 kilómtros de distancia de separación, donde podrían haberse erigido sendas pirámides, una de ellas de un tamaño tres veces mayor que la pirámide de Giza. El hallazgo, publicado por la investigadora Angela Micol en Arqueology News, se ha producido tras estudiar la zona durante más de una década con la ayuda de Google Earth. Concretamente, el primer descubrimiento se encuentra en el Alto Egipto, a unos 12 kilómetros de la ciudad de Abu Sidhum. En cuanto al segundo emplazamiento, situado 144 kilómetros más al norte, Nicol ha apuntado que contiene una figura de cuatro lados, aunque "cuando se observa desde arriba casi parece piramidal?.
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