Ideas & Trends: When a Mountaintop Might as Well Have Been the Moon
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space-age generations.
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Scientists tap everything from gas-sniffing devices to GPS systems to better forecast when a mountain will stir. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space age generations.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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The Moon offers a unique preserved laboratory free from the weathering that ages the record of how life arose on Earth. Studying radiation and polar craters may be targets for the next human or robotic missions.
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An azure lake glimmered while ancient pines loomed nearby. My parents and I admired nature's simple beauty, but does everybody look up from their technological wonders to view the natural ones?  Nature gives us everything from oxygen to the material items we enjoy.
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By Jerome Burdi, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 4--OCEAN RIDGE -- Fascination with watching the Earth's shadow cross the face of a full moon dates back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. And the awe of watching such cosmic synchronism hasn't faded much since then.
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For a climber, the first time you lay eyes on Everest, it's hard not to think about Edmund Hillary Â and try to imagine what it was like when he and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953.
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It was a staple of 1960s science fiction that the future would involve flying cars and holidays on the moon. While the mass-production flying car hasn&#39;t yet hit the showrooms, the prospects for space tourism have taken a few steps closer.
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Pie charts compare energy sources now to goals for 2030. It had better not be pie in the sky, or the sky may be falling.
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An expert frets about the accelerating retreat of glaciers from mountain peaks. With rates up to 60 meters per year, is it time to redefine the term "glacial"?
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This Thursday evening, May 31st, the moon over North America will become full for the second time in the month of May. According to folklore, that makes it a blue moon.
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By Scott, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Feb. 11--When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the space program. One of my earliest memories was watching Apollo 11 land on the moon.
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Albuquerque Journal -- "What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move My heart so potently?"     "Endymion," John Keats The first landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492, is commemorated on the second Monday of October...
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Go outside on Wednesday evening and take a look at the moon. It will look mighty strange. The Earth&#39;s dark shadow will march across the face of the moon and by 9:30 pm the moon will take on an eerie red color.
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It has been 35 years since anybody was on the Moon, or more than 300 miles from Earth, for that matter. What happened to the so-called space age?
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