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NASA Reveals Saturn's View of Earth

Posted by Dan Vergano in StarStruck on November 13, 2013

A July 19, 2013 view of Saturn, its rings and moons, as well as Earth, Venus and Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI.

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NASA has unveiled a gorgeous Cassini spacecraft look at the Earth, Mars and Venus, as seen from behind Saturn.
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In orbit around the ringed planet since 2004, Cassini set up the image when it passed into Saturn’s shadow on July 19, 2013. That allowed the spacecraft to capture the arrangement of rings, moons and worlds seen in the image.
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It is a mosaic of 141 natural-color photos stitched together, spanning some 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) of Saturn and its rings.
The view captures a complete look at Saturn’s rings and seven of its moons, as well as all of the planets in the inner solar system, except for tiny Mercury, according to NASA.
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“This mosaic provides a remarkable amount of high-quality data on Saturn’s diffuse rings, revealing all sorts of intriguing structures we are currently trying to understand,” said Cassini scientist Matt Hedman of the University of Idaho in Moscow, in a statement. 
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The view shows the solar system as it looks from Saturn, just as it would be seen by the human eye.
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The mosaic resulted from NASA’s “Wave at Saturn” campaign on July 19, where the space agency asked the public to wave back at the ringed planet as Cassini was taking their picture from across the solar system.

US Marines on ground in Philippines ...[ 3174 ]

US Marines on ground in Philippines after typhoon

Published on Nov 11, 2013
Published on Nov 11, 2013US aid and military personnel arrived in the Philippines on Monday, after the country was hit by one of the most powerful typhoons ever to make landfal.

Greek riot police end occupation of state TV building...[ 3173 ]

Greek police end five-month occupation of former national TV building

euronews  /  07/11 16:17 CET

Overnight the Greek government moved against some 50 former ERT journalists who had been holed up in their headquarters since June, broadcasting against the administration’s austerity policies. ERT stands for Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi), Greece’s former state broadcaster.
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Riot police moved in to evict the journalists and close down the channel for good. Since June they had been effectively unemployed, squatting in government property. Four journalists were briefly detained, then released. No one was hurt.
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President of the ERT worker’s union Panagiotis Kalfagiannis said: “Today they had to muddy the waters because the troika members are in Athens and the government is to take new measures. They had to find a way to do this, and are now acting like fascists. They want to shut everyone’s mouth, and they have partially achieved this by using fear and a variety of different methods. We are the only ones left standing.”
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[The ‘troika’ means the tripartite committee led by the European Commission with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, that organises loans to the Greek government and to other governments.]
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Journalist Nikos Ioannidis said: “We, the employees of ERT, are outside the premises and as we speak we are planning to start broadcasting from here; this is our immediate goal.”
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While some employees at the bloated broadcaster were certainly ‘dead weight’ and ‘enjoying easy street’, others were not, and they have considerable sympathy, from public and unions alike.
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Thanasis Pafilis with the Greek Communist party said: “There has to be an answer to that. This is our message. All workers must be accountable, not only for what happened today, but because there are a lot of things happening and going wrong.”
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Syriza opposition MP Zoe Konstantopoulou said: “What is taking place at this moment will be a black page in the country’s history. The government should be ashamed and will have to apologise forever.”
The government has set up a new public broadcaster but it has failed to gain much of an audience and Greeks know it is no substitute for the original.
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Fay Doulgkeri with the euronews bureau in Athens said: “Last June 11, Greece’s national television stopped broadcasting. Almost five months later, police forces accompanied by a public prosecutor invaded the building in order to empty it. ERT employees have said that they will not give up the fight and are looking for new ways to keep on broadcasting.”

 2013 euronews

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Three killed' in Norway...[ 3172 ]..

Three killed' in Norway bus hijack

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BBC //4 November 2013 Last updated at 21:40 GMT

 

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 The attack was originally reported as a traffic accident

A man wielding a knife hijacked a bus in western Norway and killed three people on board, police say.

The suspect, in his 50s and of foreign origin, has been arrested, police told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
The victims - one woman and two men - included the bus driver. There were no immediate details of other casualties.
The man was overpowered by firefighters who rushed to the scene of what was initially reported as a traffic accident, police said.

The attack took place around 17:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on a remote mountain road near Ardal, about 220km (135 miles) north-west of Oslo.
"For now, I have no information to indicate there was anyone else than the three victims" on the bus, police officer Joern Lasse Foerde Refsnes told TV2 news channel.
A witness, who gave his name as Leif, told TV2: "The bus was on the side of the road, so we stopped our car and ran over."
"It was impossible to open the doors. Then we saw a dark-skinned person inside the bus. At first, we thought he was trying to get out but then saw he was moving around with a knife, and we realised that the situation was quite different," he said.
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, but police said there was nothing to suggest the victims were known to the attacker.
The suspect is being treated in hospital for knife wounds, police said.
Plans to deploy an anti-terror unit to the scene aboard army helicopters was called off after the suspect was arrested.