Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time. Antimatter Belt Discovered Around Earth for the First Time. Described in the astrophysical journal Letters, the find confirms the theory that antimatter could be trapped in Earth’s magnetic field.
The small amount of antiprotons were discovered lying between the Van Allen belts of boring old regular trapped matter, spotted by the Pamela satellite, which was launched back in 2006 to study high-energy particles from the Sun and from areas beyond our Solar System. One of Pamela’s goals was to specifically search for these antimatter particles, so job well done. Daylight Hours Explorer - Aurora. Shows the hours of daylight received during the year for an observer at a given latitude.
This is an important factor contributing to the seasons. Running this animation on your computer... right-click to download daylighthoursexplorer.swf and daylighthoursexplorer.html to the same directory open the html file in a browser to run the animation.