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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Five thousand people surrounded the local police station in Yudu County, Jiangxi Province on Sunday. The angry protestors toppled two police cars and blocked the road after a quarrel broke out between authorities and contractors over fines. Here's more on that story.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the Mars rover is collecting data while en route to the Red Planet. This will give important information of the effects of radiation from events such as solar storms on spacecraft and their contents.
Friday, January 27, 2012 The biggest storm on the sun in years erupted on January 22 with a huge solar flare, an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons that, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, caused the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2005. Also, Global Temperatures remain warm, a famous Star Trek actress visits a NASA center, The Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge 2011 Finals, a fitness program teaching kids to Train Like An Astronaut and more.
Friday, January 27, 2012 The skies over northern Europe have been illuminated with an intense display of the northern lights after a week of massive solar storms showered the Earth with radiation. Video shot last weekend in Norway showed the eye-catching effect of the Aurora Borealis in the skies above Birtavarre. The lights are a familiar sight for Scandinavians, but even experienced stargazers were stunned by the intensity of the aurora borealis that swept across their night's sky on Tuesday, after the biggest solar storm in more than six years. An aurora appears when a magnetic solar wind slams into the Earth's magnetic field, exciting electrons of oxygen and nitrogen. Even before particles from the solar storm reached the Earth on Tuesday, a different aurora on Monday night was dancing across the sky as far south as Ireland and England, where people rarely get a chance to catch the stunning light show.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 In the skies above Norway a spectacular light show can be seen after a week of solar storms showered the earth with radiation.
