Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Extreme Hibernation Skills: Unfreezing Turtle.
A baby western painted turtle can freeze solid, and as long as nothing cracks it in half or tampers with it too much, the turtle will be just fine when the temperature warms up and its body thaws out. An adult western painted turtle can go without oxygen for up to 30 hours at room temperature, and if the temperature drops to 37 degrees, it can hold its breath for up to four months at a stretch
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/10/science/la-sci-sn-painted-turtle-genome-20130409
Christmas Pluto
Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green. This image was produced by the New Horizons composition team, using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained at approximately 9:40 AM on July 14, from a mean range of 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers).
The resolution is about 7 kilometers per LEISA pixel. Three infrared wavelength ranges (2.28-2.23, 1.25-1.30 and 1.64-1.73 microns) were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, respectively) to create this false color Christmas portrait.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/christmas-pluto
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