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Latest Gravity Map

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Best Gravity Map Yet Shows a Lumpy, Bumpy Earth

Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor
Date: 02 June 2011 Time: 07:00 AM ET
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ESA’s GOCE mission has delivered the most accurate model of the ‘geoid’ ever produced. Red corresponds to points with higher gravity, and blue to points with lower gravity.
CREDIT: ESA/HPF/DLR

Take a clay model of Earth and squish it with your fingers, and the result may look similar to the geoid — the latest and best-ever map of our planet’s gravitational field.

to read more go to:    http://www.space.com/11849-earth-gravity-map-geoid.html

Joplin Supercell fr/Space

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Joplin, Missouri Tornado Seen From Space

by NANCY ATKINSON on MAY 24, 2011

This video from NOAA’s GOES geostationary satellite shows the development of the supercell storm that produced the devastating tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri. Here you can see the storm develop over Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas state lines on May 22, 2011 between 12:44pm to 7:15pm CDT. This was part of the great wave of severe storms that swept across the central United States, with tornado warnings from Minneapolis to Dallas. The most damaging storm struck Joplin at 5:30 pm local time (2230 UTC), killing at least 116 people.

To read more and see more images go to: http://www.universetoday.com/85919/joplin-missouri-tornado-seen-from-space/

 

More Ash from Icelandic Volcano

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Flights cancelled as ash cloud heads towards UK

 

 

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Philip Hammond: “We know much more about the composition, direction and size of the plume than we did last year”

Flights in Scotland have been cancelled by a regional airline as volcanic ash continues to head towards the UK.

Loganair, based at Glasgow airport, has cancelled 36 flights on Tuesday as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) warns that disruption cannot be ruled out.

Analysts expect the ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano to reach Scotland and Northern Ireland by Monday evening.

The event comes a year after ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano spread across Europe, causing huge disruption.

to read more go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13498477