Advanced satellite technology has saved more than 18,000 lives over the past 25 years in search and rescue operations worldwide.After nearly 25 years in service, SARSAT, or Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking, is still saving lives-over 1,000 every year worldwide. SARSAT was developed by Canada, France, the U.S., and Russia in 1979. It is the [...]

Life requires a few basis ingredients: raw materials, a solvent (water), and energy to drive it all. It is believed that within our solar system, there are at least eight possible places where life can exist.
The first and most obvious place for life within our solar system is Earth. Earth is powered by the nuclear [...]

There is much history in naming of tropical storms.  Until late in the 1940s, hurricanes were not officially named as hurricane forecasting was still in its infancy.  Only the most severe of hurricanes were given names, and they were often named for the place they did the most damage.  United States meteorologists working in the [...]

Many people buy a telescope for stargazing without realizing how very frustrating star gazing with a telescope can actually be.  It’s for this reason that many who search for a good telescope for home use end up not with a telescope, but with binoculars instead.  When we see hi-tech pictures from outer space, they come [...]

Satellites help farmers determine when to fertilize, generating cost savings and protecting our environment.Farmers like to call it “precision farming”-using satellites and other remotely sensed data to evaluate crops and soil moisture. These advanced farming techniques are saving money and preventing unnecessary chemicals from entering our fragile ecosystem. A new Saskatchewan project is also using [...]

When Canadian astronaut Dr. Dave Williams takes flight for his next space mission (STS-118), scheduled for launch in June 2007, the Canadian Space Agency will provide Canadians from 15 to 17 years old with a once in a lifetime opportunity to have their own experiment performed on-orbit. The International Space Station (ISS), unique floating laboratory [...]

This weekend my husband and I took our six year old daughter to her first planetarium show, and she was in pure awe during the entire show.  She was excited when I recently took her to “Night at the Museum” and other recent movies for kids that we’ve seen, but never was she on the [...]

Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. Originally, it was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus as the morning star and Hesperus as the evening star, later scientists proclaimed that was inaccurate.
Venus is usually visible with the unaided [...]

Evidence suggests that life exists on other planets. In fact, many earth-like features have been seen on Mars.
Some of the materials that have been seen on mars include the possible presence of water, sand, and various minerals. In addition, some of the same particles that exist in the earth’s atmosphere also exist on Mars. This [...]

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Gale Forces in Galveston – A Brief Glimpse into the Big Storm of 1900
Galveston is a midsized city located in the state of Texas. It has a quite colorful history. Sometime before the 1700s, the area was claimed for the French crown by Robert Cavelier La Salle, but [...]