For years we have been told to get off the computers and get outside into the fresh air. Sitting in front of a computer screen and surfing the net all day was thought to make us duller people with straining eye problems. New research may prove this wrong and show the many benefits of surfing the net.
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Researchers believe that the Northwest Passage will once again be free of any ice. This will be the second year that this has occurred and it worries scientists that the amount of ice in the Arctic has decreased dramatically in such a short time. Last September is when they first began to worry due to the fact that Arctic ice pack had been smaller then it has been in close to 30 years.
This year the ice has already claimed the title of second smallest ice pack with three weeks of its melting season left to go. Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Data Center in Boulder, Colorado stated that usually around this time is when the melting would start to slow down.
NASA has been getting pressure from Congress to embark on a mission that is dangerous – but could offer up some much needed information. They will be sending a spacecraft closer to the sun that any has ever been able to go.
NASA has already begun work on a Solar Probe mission – which is costing them close to $750 million if not more. They have ordered the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to begin the work as of last month.