I left my house at 3am this morning and drove to NASA Ames to join a couple hundred others to watch the LCROSS impact. We were bundled up against the cold, but there was excitement in the air. Around 4:30ish, all eyes were glued to the large screen and we saw… something? nothing? It was hard to tell.
As people were packing up—some had been there all night—Ty and Nick (part of the SiA team) called from Mount Diablo.They had camped out all night with a camera and a telescope to capture the action.
“Did you get it?” I asked.
“I think so.” They couldn’t tell either.
I sat in the media tent afterward and that seemed to be the feeling all around– what exactly happened? Where was the plume, the ejecta cloud we were promised?
Spectra shows that something happened. And images are trickling in… stay tuned. We’ll have more for you next week.
-Molly
http://www.vimeo.com/6987302
Gene therapy has proven to cure color blindness in squirrel monkeys— can the same process work for humans?
We’ve been tracking a lot of vision stories lately… What have you found?
Gene Therapy for Color Blindness:
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http://www.vimeo.com/6684496
The recent discovery of an ancient flax fiber in a cave in the Republic of Georgia has scientists rethinking when human ancestors started constructing clothing from textiles and not animal skins.
34,000 Year-Old Fiber:
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http://www.vimeo.com/6505138
What colors are dinosaurs? We may be closer to figuring this out. Last week, a team of researchers published the first evidence of color in a fossil bird feather. The scientists hope that eventually their study can give some color to feathered dinosaurs.
No one wants to pass up a good dinosaur story, including us. The press has been all over this story, but I think it’s only the beginning– I can’t wait to find out Velociraptor’s true color.
http://www.vimeo.com/6366004
Meet Swima Bombaviridis, a newly discovered species found at great depths of the Pacific Ocean. They drop green bioluminescent “bombs” to evade predators.
