According to NASA, water from a burst pipe has destroyed thousand of historic space images stored at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The basement archives included original photos, negatives and transparencies from the beginning of the space age in the 1950s up through the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA sells the images to the public for a small fee and uses them for documentation and educational brochures.
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An unexplained force is pulling on distant spacecraft. It could be an unnoticed effect in the spacecraft themselves, but scientists feel it may be the first hint that we don?t fully understand the force of gravity.
?It is almost as if the probes are not behaving according to the known law of gravity,? says Dr. John Anderson of NASA. ?We?ve been working on this problem for several years, and we have accounted for everything we could think of.?
The unexplained force is tugging at 4 deep-space probes scattered around the solar system. For example, Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972 and is now well beyond Jupiter, is slowing down more quickly than it should.
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Live bacteria have been found inside a meteorite and the scientists who cultured it say that the bacteria is not from the earth. If true, this would help prove the theory that life was brought to earth via meteorites.
Bruno D’Argenio, a geologist working for the Italian National Research Council, and Giuseppe Geraci, of Naples University, brought back to life microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 million year old meteorites kept at Naples’ mineralogical museum. The bacteria remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme conditions, an indication, according to the researchers, that ?life can exist everywhere in the solar system, though in a quiescent state.
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A lost city may have been found beneath 2,300 feet of water off the coast of Cuba, in an area just recently opened to exploration by the Cuban government.
Several foreign companies have joined together with the Cuban government to begin a systematic search of the area. ?It?s a new frontier,? says Paulina Zelitsky, of the Canadian company Advanced Digital Communications. ?We are discovering the influence of currents on global climate, volcanoes, the history of formation of Caribbean islands, numerous historic wrecks and even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan.?
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