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Good Morning,
Using a balloon and a camera, Two MIT students took photo-
graphs of earth from space. They reached over 17 miles into
the atmosphere! Read all the details in the first article.
Until Tomorrow,
Erin
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MIT students photograph Earth from space
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Two students at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology say they were able to take photographs
of the Earth from space using a camera and a balloon. The
Boston Globe said Monday MIT students Oliver Yeh and Justin
Lee were able to use a digital camera to take photos from
17.5 miles up in the atmosphere by placing the device inside
a Styrofoam cooler attached to a helium-filled weather bal-
loon. After taking 4,000 photographs high above Sturbridge,
Mass., the camera safely parachuted to the ground using a
plastic parachute. Yeh, 20, said he and Lee, 23, conducted
the experiment at a cost of only $150 because of a shared
longing to better understand the world around them. "We
just like to explore and understand stuff,'' Yeh told the
Globe of his September experiment. Astronaut Daniel Tani
of NASA's Johnson Space Center applauded the men's ingenuity
in creating such a simple design for such a complex experi-
ment. "It's remarkable,'' Tani told the Globe. "What tickled
me is that for $150 they were able to go to 93,000 feet.''
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Study shows arctic sea ice still melting
BOULDER, Colo. - University of Colorado-Boulder scientists
say arctic sea ice coverage recovered slightly this year,
but still remains on a downward trend. Researchers at the
university's National Snow and Ice Data Center said the
arctic's 2009 minimum sea ice extent was the third lowest
since satellite record-keeping began in 1979. The past five
years have seen the five lowest arctic sea ice extents ever
recorded. "It's nice to see a little recovery over the past
couple of years, but there's no reason to think that we're
headed back to conditions seen in the 1970s," said Professor
Mark Serreze, director of the center. "We still expect to
see ice-free summers sometime in the next few decades." The
average ice extent during September, a standard measurement
for climate studies, was 2.07 million square miles. That's
409,000 square miles greater the record low for the month
recorded in 2007. The 2009 arctic sea ice extent was still
649,000 square miles below the 1979-2000 September average,
according to the report. Scientists said arctic sea ice in
September is now declining at a rate of 11.2 percent per
decade and, during winter months, by about 3 percent per
decade. More information is available at
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/.
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Yeast strain genome is sequenced
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University scientists say they have
sequenced the genome of a strain of yeast that turns sugar
cane into ethanol for use as a biofuel. "Understanding this
microbe may enable more efficient biofuel production, and
also will produce even more robust industrial organisms that
are versatile and capable of producing advanced biofuels from
non-food crops like switchgrass," said Lucas Argueso, lead
author of the research. Arguesco, a research scholar in
Duke's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
said he worked with scientists from Brazil and the University
of North Carolina on the study. The yeast strain Argueso and
colleagues studied is PE-2 -- yeast that grows naturally on
sugar cane and remains viable in industrial fermentation
vats. "We took an organism that is hugely important from an
industrial standpoint, but completely unknown in terms of
its genetic and molecular properties," Argueso said. "We
learned much more about how a complex genome is organized
and may contribute to a robust and well-adapted organism.
"Now we have sequenced the genome, so we have a road map that
will allow us to build upon its natural abilities," he said.
"This opens the door to crossing yeast strains to make even
more efficient yeasts for enhanced biofuel production." The
study appears in the journal Genome Research.
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