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Volcano Erupts in Chile, Spews Heavy Smoke and Lava, Thousands Flee

March 4, 2015 By Carol Harper

On Tuesday, Villarrica volcano released heavy lava and rocks high into the sky. The lava forced concerned authorities to pronounced red alert in Chile

As per the report of National Emergency Office, the volcano erupted at around 3 am of local time. More than 3,000 people were immediately evacuated from nearby town.

The first explosion only lasted for seven hours. Shortly after the volcano calmed down, the resident returned to their homes.

However, the eruption was not completely unpredicted. Two weeks ago, the volcano has shown considerable signs of explosion.

Media broadcast numerous images of volcano when the lava was on its peak. It spewed heavy smoke and lava on the slopes.

Additionally, POVI released a time-lapse video that shows transformation of eruption form minor lava to full one.

The volcano is considered as one of the most active volcanoes of Chile. It is nearly 2,847 meters high. It is situated approximately 400 miles above the small city of Pucon. Generally, a large number of tourists gathered there for different purposes such as hiking.

Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, immediately visited the affected region.

NASA Dawn Probe Gets Closer Look of Ceres, Sends Incredible Images

January 20, 2015 By Carol Harper

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft safely reached near Ceres. The spacecraft captured some incredible images of the dwarf planet.

Ceres is the largest object present in the asteroid belt of Mars and Jupiter. It is made up of fragments of rock and ice. It covers a third of the mass of asteroid belt with a diameter of 950 kilometers

Scientists describe Ceres as an “embryonic planet” as it is an extremely complex task for the researchers to categorize the dwarf planet. The object is not a moon, not a planet or an asteroid. Scientists discovered that the dwarf planet is the combination of all these three things. Hence, the government space agency thinks that Ceres will offer significant information related to the formation of solar system.

In 2004, the Hubble Space telescope snapped a few images of the dwarf planet. The images come with a resolution of 27 pixels from a long distance of nearly 383,000 kilometers. Thus, those images were pretty rough in terms of quality.

Recently, dawn captured a few images of Ceres that are around 80 percent of the resolution of the Hubble Telescope. The images reveal that Ceres is nearly three times better than shown in all the previous images. However, the images published on the website of the space agency are grainy.

Andreas Nathues, head investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research informs that these are first images which are merely captured to get help in navigation. They will be utilized for the direction guidance of the spacecraft. The images evidently display the surface structure of the planet.

NASA New Horizon Geared Up For Pluto Probe

January 16, 2015 By Denise Ehrlich

NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft woke up from its last hibernation in early December. On Thursday, the spacecraft started its Pluto Journey. It is all set to provide the first close up of Pluto on the 14th of July 2015.

Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Department talked about the Pluto mission. He said that it would be the first time in the history when a space agency would explore the dwarf planet.

The new Horizon spacecraft was launched in January 2006. The space craft travelled for a long time period of nine years. Thus far, it has covered approximately 4.8 billion km (3 billion miles) from the Earth.

Alan Stern, head investigator of New Horizon spacecraft said that the spacecraft accomplished one of the longest journeys in the history of space exploration.

The spacecraft and engineering team have planned to begin the remote observation of Pluto from 25^th of January. The space probe will make use of long-range photo imager for this purpose.

In the beginning, the smallest planet would merely appear like a dot in the images. However, it will help scientists in designing the future strategies for the Pluto mission. It will also provide significant information about the appropriate methods to cross the rest of the 220 million kilometers (135 million miles).

Comet Probe Provides Clues Regarding “The Origin of Life”

November 14, 2014 By Marlene R. Litten

Finally, the robotic Philae lander laid down on the surface of comet 67P67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The lander completes its long journey of nearly 10 years.

Earlier, numerous spacecraft had spent hours in the examination of comets from a high distance. However, not a single spacecraft positioned any research instrument onto a comet except the Philae lander. The scientists have not laid an eye on this time capsule before the Philae lander. Therefore, it was as if Philae fulfilled the dream of scientists to analyze a comet from such a short distance.

The Rosetta placed the instrument just 10 Km wary from the comet. The lander fascinates the scientists with the images and data of the comet. Every time it sends back a pack fully loaded with amazing photos and information about the comet. It certainly helped scientists in the examination of the rock beneath the foot of Rosetta.

In addition the robotic lander also gets a chance to study the gaseous matter that appears from the surface of the comet.

The entire data accumulated through the Philae lander shed light on the history of the solar system. Comets are generally considered as the most ancient blocks of the solar system. The information accumulated form Rosetta gave an insight about the part played by the comet in the formation of Earth.

Stanley Cowley, a planetary scientist informed that comets played a vital role in delivering Earth with the most basic element of life; water.

Moreover, the study revealed that the comet consists of simple organic molecules. These molecules provided Earth the material for the emergence of Life.

What’s A Snappen & Why You Should Be Alarmed

October 12, 2014 By Denise Ehrlich

Once again the underhanded doings of hackers is setting the web on fire. Now the fiendish felons are threatening to leak upwards of 200,000 images from the popular photo sharing website Snapchat.

The infamous leak website 4chan.org’s underbelly users announced that they had access to hundreds of thousands of photos, personal photos from Snapchat. The hackers threaten to release a tsunami of the photos on Sunday into a searchable database that is tied to Snapchat usernames. The fiends state that they have been stealing photos that were sent by third party Snapchat app for years. Called “Snappening” this hack arrives a few weeks after hundreds of celebrity people’s private naked photos were published on the 4chan.org site after a leak from iCloud.

One might think that Snapchat has countermeasures in place to prevent such leaks but they state that photos are deleted from their databases when a member opens them or if unopened the photos are deleted in 30 days. The phone app however is different and that’s where the problem lies. Snapchat instead hides the pictures on android devices so that the OS and apps ignore the photos. The photos, however, are still accessible by some third party apps that don’t necessarily follow Android rules. The images remain and are recoverable and thus do not disappear, forever.

It’s theorized that an app, Snapsave might well be the source of the leak. Using Snapchat while sending a picture, the person on the receiving end takes a screenshot of the picture, however, the app immediately informs the sender. Snapsave proclaims to have the ability to save photos and videos unbeknownst to the sender. The archived pictures can then be stored in the cloud. Snapsave’s developer Georgie Casey states emphatically that his app has nothing to do with this debacle. That being said, however, the SnapSaved.com website no longer exists.

Perhaps the warning post began in May 2014 when Snapchat themselves stated that it might sometimes be possible to retrieve photos after they’ve deleted them. They warned users to be cautious with what they post.

The photos in question are reportedly those of an explicit nature and anyone can take a guess at what their neighbors have been doing, naughty or nice.

No one should download the leaked pictures as some may be of underage teenagers and that would be a crime in most countries in the world. Parents should have instructed their children not to post such pictures in the first place, however, sometimes the kids can circumvent the protections and their parent’s warnings.

The hackers are doing this likely just to show that they can, for bragging rights and not realizing nor taking responsibility for what ramifications may occur. Some may last years. All users of Snapchat may be at risk and if you think you are you might want to look for your username on 4chan.org’s site and demand any photos be taken down immediately. Check with your authorities on handling this as it may be delicate.

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