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WEB SITE NEWS AND COMMENTARY

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Pinnipedia Gallery

Seals, sea lions, and walruses all belong to the same taxonomic family called Pinnipedia or the 'fin-footed.' Pinnipeds spend the majority of their lives swimming and eating in water and are lucky enough to have bodies that are built to move easily through their habitat. Yet they come in an assortment of shapes and sizes. View this gallery for some wet and wild images of pinnipeds. --> Jump To Gallery

*Text and Image Credit For this gallery: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce

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SCIENCE NEWS AND LINKS

NASA Galleries

Check out these three NASA image galleries for some out of this world imagery.

Space Station Gallery	Visible Earth Gallery	Image of the Day Gallery

Image courtesy NASA

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Iraq

The focus of the world is again on Iraq. This area of the world is deep with history. The mouth of the fabled Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empties through a delta into the Persian Gulf in southeastern Iraq. Those rivers meet into a single channel, the al Arab, in the swamplands in the upper left of the image. Crops along the river include wheat, millet, sorghum, cotton, rice, and dates. The Rivers Karun (top center) and Jarrahi (right center) are both in western Iran. The lower left corner is a barren desert, with sand dunes, which includes part of Kuwait. Much of the Arabian Peninsula - actually a huge, wide land mass bounded by the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and thus not strictly a peninsula in geographic terms - is covered by barren desert and vast sand seas.

Image and portions of Text Courtesy NASA GSFC/Remote Sensing Website

The NOAA website contains information on current weather and storm conditions in Iraq, including satellite images. NOAA

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SARS Alert

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, has quickly raised the alert levels of health practitioners worldwide. This mysterious illness first appeared in China and has rapidly spread through Asia and North America through infected individuals' air travel. The Department of Health and Human Services has put up a page about SARS. [JUMP]

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Iceberg C-21 Breaks Off Shackleton Ice Shelf

The National Ice Center in Suitland, Md., confirms an iceberg broke off from the Shackleton Ice Shelf, a large sheet of glacial ice and snow extending from the Antarctic mainland into the western Wilkesland Sea. Iceberg names are derived from the Antarctic quadrant in which they were originally sighted.

The new iceberg, named Iceberg C-21, is currently located near 65.0S, 95.7E and measures 24 nautical miles long (27.6 miles) by 12 nautical miles wide (13.8 miles). The NIC confirmed the "calving," or breaking off, of C-21 using the satellite image from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer infrared sensor.
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Quote of the Month
"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
Roger Bacon, 13th Century English scientist.

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