Explore Our Planet

Not a picture from this planet, but impressive anyway. Hopefully Hubble telescope will take more pictures from our universum in future. This one has been composed and mosaiqued using 51 individual Hubble photos plus a few ground-based. Galaxy Messier 10 ...>>

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 22:19:08 (UTC) In a depth of 11km an earthquake with magnitude of 7.5 happened yesterday in Mozambique. 7.5 is quite strong and scared people run onto streets leaving their houses. Last similar earthquake occured in 1900 wit ...>>

Your comupter searches Aliens with SETI? Well, from now he can compute more useful data. BBC started a distributed computing experiment. The entry page of the project is easy to understand with a lot of information and everyone is invited to share his persona ...>>

As a result of collaboration with geonames.org we proudly unleash the first 2 new map extensions: Placenames and Earthquakes. Both extensions are part of the default geoLink (999) , you can toggle them (FireFox only) with Alt-p for placenames or Alt-q for e ...>>

"One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment demonstrates how our growing number of people and their consumption patterns are shrinking our natural resource base. The challenge is, how do we satisfy human needs without compromising the health of ...>>