An Affair Called Honduras

What's going on in South America in these last couple of weeks that called the attention of the cause freedom in all its aspects? Honduras, Tegucigalpa, became well-known by its proximite of The Channel of Panama than any other aspects of its traditional life. Knowing also by its weather and by its people, which turned to be an amount of great and real latinism, Honduras has exponsored many culturalism concerning to what we so far became used to their routines as a people very Latin in theirs concepts, but preserving their heritage.

So far yet, by its social, cultural, techonogical, and sociological diversities that were exported world wide. Nothing else, but an excelence of peaceful country. Therefore, lately, Honduras was shocked by a sort of changings which turn it to be well-known by all in the world for its new bias in politics. Yes, politics that seemed to all as so precise that people lived there as having its routine unchanged for decades. Changed!

Today, however, Honduras became part of Latin America and so far, living, not geographically strategically position for its localization as a Central American country, but facing some certains characteristics in common to others Nations that superceeded situations where needed to turn its political situation bringing to its people a certain uncomfortelessness concerning to forming new dictatorships or in brief words, politicians changing what wanted to, just to remain their leadership at any coast. Thinking that it is very easy to sustain themselves, in most of the cases as leaders, they played hard to keep their positions as never was seen in present days in Latin America and/or in Central America.

But take an overview on the situation in Honduras, as much as how they could sustain themselves as false leaders, this could bring troubles to other plausible nations in political and social matters. But since we analyse the situation as if they're not an "island", and as such, they need to demand goods and supplies from other Latin America countries, this seems also so relevant that just one article couldn't summarize certain poltical changes as to set them well precise for the international public opinion.

Actually, Chile of Allende was a 'paradise' for Socialism in South America which has ended as a complete mass as the recent history showed how it left its people. Some other countries like Argentina as well as even in Brazil, where the political system had to change because the mess around also brought social intranquility for theirs people, theirs the political systems, and so, they had to be militarized in many. The results are now historically showed to all: social, economic and political underdevelopment, and lots of disturbs never seen before.

As Honduras has a strategic place due for being nearby to The Channel of Panama, it is passsing influences in its political regime. Constitutionaly seemed also wrong; politically, gives the impression that all seemed to be precise: "we just need to influence the people to set up us in the presidential commands and ruling the country passing over its laws, its normality, its economy and social patterns, and as such, being known as a new country that wanted to be institutionalized by just an only man ruling an entire Nation".

Congratulations for the efforts made by Honduras constitutional powers like the Army, the Legislatives, also by their efforts to control, bringing to the people the necessary support, to a Nation, a fast as possible its constitutional preservation bringing as such, its rules.

Forever was Never a Good-Bye

The fatality fearfully comes for all
Though in many of the cases it is necessary
Courages make us strong and forcefull to take it out

Fecund in hells that someday will be in heavens
Detain the hidden enemies from their pathways
In doing so, you're deviating it from us

Much more than adevotion, but a shame that as a debauchary
goes like an ocean in a dismal boat lost in itself.
Don't be a quitter because you're caught in your own desparation

Nothing can come to a person what brings turmoil as a quip smiling.
Gathered none could make better than it were made.
Our wonderment just came to stay and still remains.

None could change a stone that remains very there and farther
But by remaining it, we can get it's meaning.
Don't forget that we care for you as the same that'd do dimly.

I love you
I miss you. thank you.
But guess, I can live without you.

Meteorite Impacts Expose Ice on Mars

September 24, 2009: Meteorites recently striking Mars have exposed deposits of frozen water not far below the Martian surface. Pictures of the impact sites taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that frozen water may be available to explorers of the Red Planet at lower latitudes than previously thought.

"This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from perhaps just several thousand years ago," says Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Byrne is a member of the team operating the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, which captured the unprecedented images. Byrne and 17 co-authors report the findings in the Sept. 25 edition of the journal Science.



Above: A fresh, 6-meter-wide, 1.33-meter-deep crater on Mars photographed on Oct. 18, 2008, and again on Jan. 14, 2009, by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. The bright material is ice, which fades from Oct. to Jan. because of sublimation and obscuration by settling dust. [more]

"We now know we can use new impact sites as places to look for ice in the shallow subsurface," adds Megan Kennedy of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, a co-author of the paper and member of the team operating the orbiter's Context Camera.

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So far, the camera team has found bright ice exposed at five Martian sites with new craters that range in depth from approximately half a meter to 2.5 meters (1.5 feet to 8 feet). The craters did not exist in earlier images of the same sites. Bright patches darkened in the weeks following initial observations, as freshly exposed ice vaporized into the thin Martian atmosphere.

The finds indicate water-ice occurs beneath Mars' surface halfway between the north pole and the equator, a lower latitude than expected in the dry Martian climate.

During a typical week, the spacecraft's Context Camera returns more than 200 images of Mars that cover a total area greater than California. The camera team examines each image, sometimes finding dark spots that fresh, small craters make in terrain covered with dust. Checking earlier photos of the same areas can confirm a feature is new. In this way, the team has found more than 100 fresh impact sites.

An image from the camera on Aug. 10, 2008, showed apparent cratering that occurred after an image of the same ground was taken 67 days earlier. The opportunity to study such a fresh impact site prompted a look by the orbiter's higher resolution camera on Sept. 12, 2009, confirming a cluster of small craters.

Right: The patch of ice exposed at this late-2008 crater was large enough for the orbiter's spectrometers to take readings and confirm that it is H2O. [more]

"Something unusual jumped out," Byrne said. "We observed bright material at the bottoms of the craters with a very distinct color. It looked a lot like ice."

The bright material at that site did not cover enough area for a spectrometer instrument on the orbiter to determine its composition. "Was it really ice?" the team wondered. The answer came from another crater with a much larger area of bright material.

"We were excited [when we saw it], so we did a quick-turnaround observation," said co-author Kim Seelos of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "Everyone thought it was water-ice, but it was important to get the spectrum for confirmation."

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Zurek, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., said, "This mission is designed to facilitate coordination and quick response by the science teams. That makes it possible to detect and understand rapidly changing features."



Above: This map shows five locations where fresh impact cratering has excavated water ice from just beneath the surface of Mars (sites 1 through 5) and the Viking Lander 2 landing site (VL2), in the context of color coding to indicate estimated depth to ice. [more]

The ice exposed by fresh impacts suggests that NASA's Viking Lander 2, digging into mid-latitude Mars in 1976, might have struck ice if it had dug only 10 centimeters (4 inches) deeper. The Viking 2 mission, which consisted of an orbiter and a lander, launched in September 1975 and became one of the first two space probes to land successfully on the Martian surface. The Viking 1 and 2 landers characterized the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface. They also conducted on-the-spot biological tests for life on another planet.

To view images of the craters and learn more about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter visit http://www.nasa.gov/mro.

Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -- home page

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. The Context Camera was built and is operated by Malin Space Science Systems. The University of Arizona operates the HiRISE camera, which Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colo., built. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory led the effort to build the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer and operates it in coordination with an international team of researchers.

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