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The QuickBird satellite is taking photographs of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, trying to spot the remains of Noah’s Ark. Aircraft pictures taken in the late 1940s, as well as more recent secret spy satellite shots of the area, have revealed what could be nothing more than an unusual geological formation, but it could also be the remains of the ark. Porcher Taylor, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, has worked for years to get the CIA to declassify satellite images and other information related to the unidentified feature on Mt. Ararat in Turkey.
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When Andrew Whyley visited the underwater webcam at Lochness Live, he glimpsed the Loch Ness Monster and recorded images of it. “I was browsing the internet, and the site is always good for a five-minute look on the off-chance,” he says. “When the image came on the screen I thought ‘What the hell is THAT?’ and snapped away.”

He captured five good images during the time Nessie was in front of the camera. “It moved all over the screen and seemed to have a purpose in its movement,? he says. ?The web cam refreshes every three seconds and I was able to get five shots over a minute or so.?
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Scientists got jittery when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in July 1994, since they realized it could have hit us. Now that asteroid NT7 is scheduled to hit the Earth on February 1st, 2060, they’re telling us the odds against being hit are billions to one. This doesn’t reassure the teenager in the U.K. who had a meteorite land on her foot.

Siobhan Cowton, age 14, was getting into the family car outside when a stone she describes as “quite hot” fell from the sky and landed on her foot. “I saw it fall from above roof height,” she says. “It looked very unusual, with a bubbled surface and tiny indentations like volcanic lava. It was shiny on one side and looked rusty as if it contained iron.”
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