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Cassini image confirms liquid on Saturn moon:

A flash of sunlight reflecting off a hydrocarbon lake on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan has been spotted by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, confirming the presence of liquid on a part of the surface of the hazy satellite with many lake-shaped basins.

The image taken by Cassini is the first that shows such a glint of light off liquid from another world.
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S.Korean Firms To Spend Over 4 Trillion Won In Clean Tech

The investments include spending on clean technology research and development and manufacturing facilities for solar cells, wind power and hydro-fuel cells, a government official said, adding that the data was gathered from a survey of Korean companies.
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Earth's upper atmosphere cooling dramatically

New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-reaching impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. As the density declines, orbiting satellites experience less drag.
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Data to expose 'ghost mountains' :

An international team spent two months in 2008/9 surveying the Gamburtsevs in Antarctica - a series of peaks totally buried under the ice cap. The group has told a major conference in the US that the hidden mountains are more jagged than previously thought. They are also more linear in shape than the sparse data collected in the past had suggested. This latter finding hints at a possible origin for the mountains whose existence has perplexed scientists for 50 years.

"If you have a linear structure it makes them more like the Alps or the Appalachians," explained Dr Michael Studinger from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University, New York.
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Cosmic Log: Koreans plan space tours

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: XCOR Aerospace and Yecheon Astro Space Center announce a deal that would eventually provide rides to the edge of outer space from South Korea, in a rocket plane made in the U.S.A.
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U.S., China make up, but still no climate deal

COPENHAGEN - China on Thursday welcomed a U.S. move aimed at reviving the flagging U.N. climate talks, but even as the two giants of greenhouse gases moved closer, other nations warned a global consensus still looked out of reach.
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