EO Newsroom: New Images - Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania

Deep in the Sahara Desert lies a crater. Nearly a perfect circle, it is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide, and sports a rim 100 meters (330 feet) high. The crater sits in a vast plain of rocks so ancient they were deposited hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth. Modern geologists long debated what caused this crater, some of them favoring a volcano. But closer examination of the structure revealed that the crater’s hardened “lava” was actually rock that had melted from a meteorite impact.

NASA - Beauty in the Night

As space shuttle Endeavour raced into space to begin the STS-123 mission, an amateur photographer captured this view from the waterfront in Titusville, Florida

Mars is 'covered in table salt'

LD: Mars Department of Tourism notes that visits from hypertensives and pepper lovers have sunk to zero.

Mobile calls on Emirates flights

NEWS FLASH Cell phones used on a flight. Plane doesn't crash!

LD: Its nice to see airlines moving away from banning cell phones, a decision probably based in large part on trying to tap new revenue streams from Air Phones. 'Tis about time. Hospitals should be next!

P-51 Crazy Horse approach and landing

Approach and landing of a P-51 Mustang Crazy Horse, complete with CFI walking you through the landing procedure.

Astrophysicist Addresses Airline Boarding

Boarding an aircraft could be seven times more efficient, saving airlines and passengers time and so potentially improving the income potential and quality of life for both, according to astrophysicist Jason Steffen of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois.

LD: Bet the average biped couldn't figure it out though.

Canada losing ground in space

As Canada's space agency celebrates the installation of Dextre the robot on the International Space Station, the country's space program is in serious trouble: funding is lagging, leadership is unstable and the astronaut corps is shrinking.

LD: Yet another example of how Canada is losing vision, purpose, and status in the international community. Looking at US Media about Dextre is very interesting in that almost all references to Canada are missing. We should have taken a lesson from Microsoft marketing and called it Canadarm for Space Station Workgroups v3!

A380 to make UK commercial debut

The Airbus A380 "super-jumbo" is due to make its European commercial debut when a flight from Singapore lands at London's Heathrow airport.

Chicago at night, from 36,000 feet on Flickr

Memories of IML.

...to boldly go where no iPod has gone before...

An overhead view of the exterior of Space Shuttle Endeavour's crew cabin, part of its payload bay doors and docking system was provided by Expedition 16 crewmembers on the International Space Station (ISS). Before docking with the station, astronaut Dominic Gorie, STS-123 commander, flew the shuttle through a roll pitch maneuver or basically a backflip to allow the space station crew a good view of Endeavour's heat shield. Using digital still cameras equipped with both 400 and 800 millimeter lenses, the ISS crewmembers took a number of photos of the shuttle's thermal protection system and sent them down to teams on the ground for analysis. A 400 millimeter lens was used for this image.

APOD: 2008 March 16 - Endeavour to Orbit

The exhaust column pictured is from the Space Shuttle Endeavour after last week's night launch to visit the International Space Station.