Seeking the Loneliest Whale

Scientists, have found out that there is a lonely whale in the North Pacific. Nobody has seen it but the
whale's 52- Hertz calls have revealed it's existance. This high pitch has been recorded by even the
U.S. Navy since 1989. It is believed the whale is a male since it's pitch is only heard during mating
season. Scientists know the whale isn't in a group because the whale goes through doesn't match
groups' paths. It appears to be healthy because it has swam as much as 11,000 kilometers in a season.



Bruce Mate, who is the director of the Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in
Newport will try to find the whale in an expedition next year. He thinks it's not the last member of an
endagered or extinct species. He thinks it might be a hybrid, a mix of two species. The expedition
will be documented by filmmakers. He said "We're trying to track these whales from the season we
know to the season that we don't. There hasn't been an experiment yet where we didn't have "an 'a-ha'
moment."




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Voyager 1

Voyager 1 made it out of the solar system more tan a year ago and is now 13 billion miles (21 billion km), which makes the distance farther tan from the earth to the sun.

Scientists believe Voyager 1 made it out of the solar system in August 2012. That summer, Voyager 1 sent back loads of information about galactic cosmic rays from outside the solar system.

Last year, scientists concluded that Voyager had reached interstellar space and was still recording measurements from magnetic fields that were similar to those of the sun.

A phycisist from University of Alabama in Huntsville called Gary Zank said
"The magnetic field is still something that puzzles us considerably."

"Scientists now believe the interstellar magnetic field is somehow draped around and twisted by the heliosphere, the bubble of space under the sun's influence."

Voyager 1 has a sister spacecraft called Voyager 2.



Klotz, Irene. Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 30 Dec. -0001. Web. 12 Sept. 2013. <http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-confirm-voyager-1-probe-interstellar-space-204809737.html>.

NASA Robotic Spacecraft Lifts Off to Probe Lunar Dust

NASA sent a small satellite to the moon on Friday at 11:27 pm EDT from the Virginia coast. The satellite was sent with an "unmanned" rocket.  LADEE or Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer is designed to look for dust coming from the lunar surface, which is a mystery reported decades ago by Apollo astronauts. This is the first time in 40 years that NASA has the opportunity to research this phenomenon.

LADEE will explore the moon's atmosphere from an orbit of 31 miles above the lunar surface. "The tenuous atmosphere, which contains argon, helium, sodium, potassium and other elements, may hold clues about how water came to be trapped inside craters on the moon's frozen poles." The moon's atmosphere however, is more delicate tan ours.

The mission will take 30 days and includes three passes around Earth timed perfectly so that in the final orbit LADEE will be able to capture the moon's gravity.

"The $280 million mission is expected to last about six months."

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Klotz, Irene. Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 06 Sept. 2013. Web. 08 Sept. 2013.   <http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-robotic-spacecraft-lifts-off-probe-lunar-dust-035827410--finance.html>.

Niels Bohr

Here is a prezi to inform about the atomic model, life and career, theories, and experiments of Niels Bohr.
By: Lucia Hasfura, Daniella Chicas (http://daniellachicaschemistryblog.blogspot.com/) and Adriana Guevara (http://adriguevarachemistry.blogspot.com/)
Here's the link: Niels Bohr Prezi