What is a solar storm?

The Solar storm is a temporary disruption of the Earth's magnetosphere. Associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a coronal hole or a solar flare is a shock wave incoming solar wind between 24 and 36 hours after the event. This only happens if the shock wave travels toward Earth. The solar wind pressure on the magnetosphere will increase or decrease depending on solar activity. The solar wind pressure changes the electrical currents in the ionosphere. Magnetic storms last 24 to 48 hours, but can last for several days.

Future space missions on the Moon for Oxygen Source

NASA studies the most propitious to send to future human and robotic missions to the moon with Ultraviolet Telescope. Hubble has found concentrations of a mineral that could be used as oxygen source for future space missions on the Moon.It is a mineral called Limousin, which is rich in titanium and iron oxide, and which could be extracted with relative ease to provide air oxygen, water and fuel to astronauts.

This concentration of minerals have been discovered in the crater Aristarchus, when exploring the satellite Hubble also photographed areas in the past landed the Apollo 15 and 17 moles on their visits.

SUPERTROPICAL FULL MOON

The Full Moon on June 1, 2007 was particularly brilliant, than the full moon was appeared very bright. The same thing happened the night of Saturday 30 of that month.The reason is that the full moon of that month flew over the southern regions that can be achieved, illuminating landscapes where seldom visited by this star. On 1 and 30 reached the Moon Lunar Tropic of Sagittarius, the southernmost latitude that can be achieved, equivalent to the Sun Tropic of Capricorn, at latitude 23.44 degrees south.

For Supertropical we mean that the full moon occurs when flies latitudes south of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Photograph of SUPERLUNA

Full moons occur when the phase near full moon coincides with the lunar perigee, when the Moon is closest to the 19 March 2011 was 356,577 miles away. The last time the moon was this close was in 1993 when 356,529 km perigee occurred 18 years ago.No wait that long for the next giant full moon, this will occur on November 14, 2016 at 11:24 UT the Moon is just 356,511 miles away.

Due to media attention the press gave the event, "this must be the most photographed Full Moon history. The size and brightness with which we see the full moon in the sky, at first, depends on: How far is the perigee. 

ON THE MOON THE GRAIL SHIPS ARRIVED

It is the mission GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), which aquaculture the crust and the core mole to discern its structure."Our team is not going to have a traditional New Year celebration, but I hope to see our two ships safely in lunar orbit, something that gives us all the excitement and the feeling of euphoria that any necesiatría in a work of this kind "said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

The distance from Earth to the Moon is about 402,336 km. At NASA's Apollo missions took them about three days to travel to the moon. Launched from Cape Canaveral on 10 September, the ships GRAIL (Grail in Castilian) have traveled more than 4 million miles to get there.

Tyco crater on the Moon

The Moon is still a goal for NASA; on June 10 last the satellite NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to take this dramatic image thanks to its steep orbital angle of 65 °. The image is the central peak of the crater Tyco in the southern hemisphere of the Moon.Tyco is a place known to fans as it is one of the most outstanding places on the Moon. It is located at latitude 43.37 ° S, 348.68 ° E, and has about 82 kilometers in diameter.

The height of its central peak in the image above rises 2 km above the crater floor and the distance between the bases and is 4.7 km Comber.

The complex central peak of Tyco crater is about 15 km long and is easily visible with a backyard telescope. 

An object hit the earth

The object had ten kilometers in diameter and scientists have not yet determined exactly whether it was a meteorite or comet, but agree that their average speed was 25 to 30 kilometers per second and left a footprint impact (crater) of approximately 200 kilometers in diameter. 

After impact the earth was plunged into total chaos. Caused large fires occurred due to a temperature of up to 20 thousand degrees Celsius were recorded throughout the Americas, there were earthquakes whose intensities ranged from 14 to 16 degrees Richter and other disturbances that resulted in numerous seismic and volcanic eruptions. In addition, heavy rains were present acidic and formed huge waves, which now are known as tsunami (Japanese word derived from), traveling horizontally at speeds of up to 750 mph and reach between 15 30 meters in height. In the case of the Chicxulub impact has been estimated that the tsunami could have reached heights of 100 to 200 meters, says the geologist José Manuel Gradates Nishimura, investigator assigned to the Program of naturally fractured reservoirs, the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP).