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Rosetta pictures Antarctica during Gravitational Slingshot by ExploreOurPla.net on Nov 16, 2009This image was acquired by the Rosetta Orbiter Imaging System OSIRIS from a distance of 350 000 km at 22:28 UTC 12th November. The resolution is 6.5 km/pixel. The mission is named after the famous ‘Rosetta Stone‘ and refers to an import...

More Arctic Melting by ExploreOurPla.net on Jul 26, 2009The 2009 Arctic melting gained momentum, it is now below 2008 and accelerates. A massive bloom of algae has set up Alaska’s coast guard and Innuits. Nobody remembers that kind of occurrence in Chukchi Sea at any time. Greenpeace expects the...

Arctic 2009: The Melting has Started by ExploreOurPla.net on May 10, 2009The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and...

ExploreOurPla.net goes 3D (still experimental) by ExploreOurPla.net on Sep 5, 2008The Google Earth Plugin turns browsers into full Earth browsers. Well, not supported is UNIX, Apple, but FireFox and Internet Explorer running on Windows 2000 or better. The API of the plugin is well supported and this site will have a progressing am...

Interactive Antarctica Simulation by ExploreOurPla.net on Sep 1, 2008Feeling the heat, missing snow, want to go skiing? Try out this interactive Antarctica simulation build with flash 3d. via: Ehrensenf

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North-East and North-West-Passage open by ExploreOurPla.net on Aug 26, 2008The Arctic sea ice conditions are now very similar to last year. The maritime shortcuts through the Artic Sea are almost open or already open. The total extent two days before - the NSDIC reported yesterday - was 5.47 million square kilometers. Buo...

New Map Layer : C02 Emissions per Country 2004 by ExploreOurPla.net on Aug 17, 2008I was quite excited while visiting this UN site: data.un.org. You’ll find a huge amount of figures provided by different UN agencies. The data is free to use, ready to download and presented by a slick WEB2.0 interface. Of cource data from the..