| Slooh.com to Broadcast Live Coverage of NASA's Jupiter Flyby
Slooh.com, the live online observatory, will cover NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Jupiter from mission control this week. New Horizons is the fastest and most advanced spacecraft it has ever launched. The slingshot around Jupiter will accelerate the craft to a whopping speed of 52,000 mph in order to reach Pluto by 2015. The close encounter will also allow scientists to take detailed new pictures the Solar System's largest planet. Slooh will broadcast live celestial views of Jupiter and Pluto from our astronomical observatories at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands. Our coverage will include interviews with NASA mission scientists and real-time reporting of the Jupiter encounter on Tuesday and Wednesday. About Slooh Slooh.com is the web destination for live astronomy.
Gratum goes Canarias
(openPR) - Madrid, Spain – Gratum Inc. announced that it has planned for April 2007 to capture all of the canary islands, currently a recognized leader in property search engines for Tenerife, to offer estate agents to publish properties in all of the Canary Islands. The property sector in Tenerife has changed and developed radically in recent years and this trend is sure to continue across the other Islands. The number of Estate Agency offices has grown dramatically at the same time as buyers have become more demanding in their use of the internet for research into property options. Gratum DesktopTM is comprehensive property management system designed to meet the needs of small to medium Estate Agencies. The application is easy to use and automates a large number of tasks that allow estate agencies to manage the information and pictures relating to properties in their portfolio, while increasing profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Earth's crust missing in undersea spots off Spain
British scientists have embarked on a mission to study huge spots on the Atlantic seabed where the earth's crust is missing - an enigma that defies geophysical theory and provides an unprecedented peek at the planet's green interior. The 12-member expedition left the Canary Islands Monday with a new high-tech vessel and a robotic device named Toby that will dig up rock samples at the site and film what it sees. The main spot - there is at least one other in roughly the same area and a third is suspected - is about 3,500 meters under the surface of the Atlantic and located about 2,000 nautical miles southwest of the Spanish archipelago off Africa's coast. It is part of a globe-spanning ridge of undersea volcanos, the kind of structure that forms when Atlantic tectonic plates separate and lava surges upward to fill the gap in the earth's crust.
Majorca protest over expansion
Thousands of people on the Spanish island of Majorca are expected to protest today against the building of holiday homes, golf courses and other developments that they believe are destroying the environment. About 130 ecological groups, unions and other organisations are to attend the demonstration in the island's capital, Palma, under the slogan Let's Save Majorca. Organisers describe development on the island as "out of proportion and unsustainable", pointing to the planned construction of 14 golf courses, seven roads, a theme park and recreational ports. .
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