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Soyuz Readied for Launch to ISS 12 AM Friday

The ISS Expedition 23 Soyuz TMA-18 Launch Coverage on NASA-TV will commece at 11:15 PM April 1, 2010 with the launch set for 12:04 a.m. EDT April 2 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan; launch replays follow) with a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the orbiting International Space Station.

Armed police with sniffer dogs walked ahead of the train and a helicopter circled overhead as the Soyuz booster rolled to the pad and was erected for the final launch campaign of the Soyuz TMA-18 amid heightened security following the Moscow subway bombings, which killed dozens of people [Russia Today].

The three Soyuz space flyers departing Friday will join three crew members currently aboard the space station — Russian commander Igor Kotov, NASA astronaut Timothy J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi of Japan. Within days of the Soyuz docking at the space station, a U.S. space shuttle with seven people on board will launch from the Kennedy Space Center (April 5, 2010) and it is due to arrive for a brief visit, ensuring a busy time for the Soyuz newcomers.

Munising Waterfalls

Friend Wendy Lynn and I went to Marquette the other day. She had never seen some of the waterfalls in the Munising area with winter ice build up. First we stopped by the Michigan Nature Association property in Munising to see Memorial Falls. As reported a month or so ago, this property actually has two waterfalls in side-by-side grottoes. The ice on the first falls has already fallen and broken.






To get to the second falls, you have to climb through the hole in the rock.




The ice on the second falls has detached at top, but it is still standing.




To get around the second waterfalls to get some photos, we crawled behind the curtin of ice. That was quite spiritual.




It was steep and slippery climbing out of the area.



Then we went across the street to Munising Falls.







The fourth water falls of the day was Scott Falls, located west of Munising.




On the way to Marquette we noticed how much ice is still hugging shore in the area. The shore ice in Grand Marais is pretty much gone. It must be because the stretch of beach between Munising and Marquette is more protected from the waves.



I am leaving in a little while to go to Kentucky agate hunting. Therefore, there won't be another blog update until I get back. I am going with friends Gerald and Jill. They have been in contact with a guy who is letting us camp on his property and hunt in his river. We are also going to do some fossil hunting in Ohio. The weather looks like it is going to be summer-like.

Huricane River

On Sunday I decided to see how far west we can drive. A week or so there was still a lot of snow on the road past Sable Lake. That is no longer true. The road commission must have punched the road through since there were snow banks in places along the road. I was able to drive all the way to the Hurricane River!

There is now open water along the edges of Sable Lake. The remaining ice is very thin. It won't be long before Sable Lake is ice free.



On the way driving out to the Hurricane, there is still some snow on the south side of the road. I like the patterns it makes when melting in the woods.



Here are the shots I took at the Hurricane River.

the summit of mauna kea: sixty symbols

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see some extra footage and interviews a the periodic videos blog.

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Miscellaneous Photos

I am going to Marquette in a few minutes so I don't have time to download the photos from my camera. Here are a few extra shots I've recently taken.

The first two show some of the first green vegetation. Actually, the first photo of the ferns show the green left over from last fall. This species of fern lays down in the fall and survives under the snow to give the plant a head start in the spring. The second photo is of some grass coming up along the side of Sable River.




Here is another beach shot showing the spring rocks. This photo was taken at the mouth of Sable River.



When we were bushwhacking along Sable River the other day, I took this shot of the foot bridge.

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ISS Cosmonaut Blogger Back from Space

Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, who was the first-ever Russian to blog online from orbit, described his everyday space life and shared his feelings and thoughts with Internet users. Suraev's 6-month experience on the ISS is reviewed in a Russia Today report. His Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan on March 18, 2010, wrapping up a 167 day stay aboard the International Space Station.

JAXA Spacecraft to Explore Venus in 2010

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in the final weeks of the launch campaign to explore the planet Venus with the Akatsuki spacecraft or previously known as the Planet-C spacecraft. Currently planned for launch on May 17, 2010, the $220 million mission will arrive at Venus in December 2010 for a mission of two years or more.

The JAXA Akatsuki spacecraft will join The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to explore the cloud shrouded planet five years ago. The ESA probe entered Venusian orbit on 11 April 2006 and has extended remote sensing operations into 2012. The European science at Venus will aid the JAXA probe to expand human knowledge of Earth's sister planet. Together the two spacreaft will contribute to science like those which proceeded them to Venus.

The JAXA space agency history and plans have been recently documented in the book Emerging Space Powers: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America by Brian Harvey, Henk H. F. Smid, and Theo Pirard. The book provides insights into the JAXA Hayabusa asteroid, Akatuski Venus, and other JAXA missions as well as five other national space programs of those yet to place humans in space nonetheless launching satellites to orbit of Earth and/or the Moon.

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Europa Ice: Thick or Thin?

Europa, one of the many moons of Jupiter, merits serious review by individuals who believe nations of the world should be spacefaring in the 21st Century and if you subscribe to the NASA mantra "to follow the water" -as on the planet Mars. Water and the thickness of the Europa ice is the key to determine if it is a dynamic water world to be explored.

Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon (2009), by Richard Greenberg, provides insight to the moon Europa and the debate about the thickness of the ice crust that covers the global surface. Therein is a significant part of the answer of whether or not it is a new life habitable zone within the solar system. Greenberg was recently interviewed on The Space Show.

Beyond the Moon and Mars, Europa is in the sights of human space exploration in the 21st Century. The planned unmanned joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission is now being designed to analyze and monitor the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa and begin to settle the debate of thick or thin ice that is detailed in the content of Greenberg's book.

Hopefully, many of the questions raised will be fully vetted in 2026/2027 as a new mission is designed to characterize water oceans beneath the ice shell. Meanhile, the Russians have discussed a Europa lander in the future.

Space Shuttle Manifest May Grow into 2013?

NASA has the equipment and supplies for four additional space flights on the shuttle, officials announce and reported by a WESH-TV video from Florida Friday. In a news conference NASA revealed that it can produce three additional fuel tanks in 2012-2013 and enable four additional space shuttle flights beyond the current manifest ending in September 2010.

The cost of continuing the space shuttle flights with the additional hardware is staggering and could place additional pressure on the $6-billion proposed to enable commercial space launch providers in the President's NASA FY 2011 budget submission to the Congress if adopted.

A rally is being planned in Florida to push the idea of continuing the space shuttle and continue with the Constellation program. Planners hope to draw 5,000 people to the 4 p.m. Sunday, April 11 at the Cocoa Expo near Interstate 95 and state Road 520 in Cocoa.

Sable River --Part 2

The photos today will feature those documenting beaver activity on and along Sable River. I must admit that evidence of beaver was everywhere. There were several dams that we saw along our walk.



Here are a couple of shots of domed beaver houses. We saw several -- all of which were built along the side of the river.




Blogspot turned this photo vertical, but you can still see where the beaver exit their home directly into the river.



Sometimes the beaver are a little to ambitious.





But most of the time they get their log.

cheeseburger in acid

good to know that concentrated hydrochloric acid does things to a mcdonalds cheeseburger. but still, yuck!



this video comes from the new branch of the periodic table of videos: molecular videos!

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Sable River -- Part 1

The other day friend Wendy Lynn and I decided to take an usual hike and circumnavigate the Sable River. We started at Sable Lake and walked on the west side of the river. We stayed as close to the river as we could, bushwhacking all the way to Lake Superior. There were a few spots that we were able to follow deer trails, but for the most part we pushed through brush or bent over and "played deer." The hike certainly gave us an appreciation for the river and for Sable Falls. There are a lot of photos so I will include them in two parts.











At places the brush was much thicker than what is shown in this photo.



From the top of the high dune on the west side of the river shown below, I took the picture of Sable Falls.




We hiked back to the car using the path on the east side of the river.