the Air Vent (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... receives the most indirect rays from the sun which makes it cooler. For long periods in the winter it receives no sunlight at all. The interior has a very high altitude which adds to the very cold temperatures. Because the interior of Antarctica is a land mass and far away from the ocean, it gets no warming effect from the water.The interior is characterized by extreme cold and light snowfall....
Tom's Astronomy Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Dunes within a crater on Mars are visible in this HiRISE image. This crater is located in the southern hemisphere where it was winter at the time this image was taken. This observation documents new seasonal processes occurring on dunes at this latitude, as well as other interesting phenomena. The bright tones are interpreted as carbon dioxide or water frost. This is generally...
Space Spin (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: Winter View of Dunes Dunes within a crater on Mars are visible in this HiRISE image. This crater is located in the southern hemisphere where it was winter at the time this image was taken. Martian Dichotomy Boundary This...
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... Team features elite riders representing New Zealand snowboarding heading into the 2009-10 Northern Hemisphere winter season. Returning members to the team include: Juliane Bray (Wanaka), Nick Brown (Queenstown), Mitch Brown (Mt. Maunganui), Shelly Gotlieb (Ohakune), James Hamilton (Auckland), Nick Hyne (Mt. Maunganui), Will Jackways (Wanaka), Jacob Koia (Arrowtown), Abby Lockhart...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... world converged on Sydney, Australia, for World Youth Day, attended by the new pope, , during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter. There was a major flu outbreak, and a -resistant strain of seasonal flu established itself and then spread to the Northern Hemisphere, including to the United States, last winter.The Saudis reacted because this new strain is the first...
Steve Warne's TGOR Nation Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... flu. In any normal year, influenza causes between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths worldwide. In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter flu season is now over. In spite of dire predictions, only 185 people died from swine flu in Australia – considerably fewer than the roughly 3,000 who succumb to seasonal influenza in that country each year. And no, it wasn't because the population...
