Solar Impulse’s Chief Executive Officer and pilot Andre Borschberg flies in the solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane after its first night flight attempt near Payerne airport, Switzerland, as the sun rises, Thursday, July 8, 2010. An experimental solar-powered plane has landed safely after completing its first 24-hour test flight. The record feat brings it one step closer to the makers’ ultimate aim of circling the globe using only energy from the sun. (AP Photo/Keystone/Fabrice Coffrini/Pool) Read more →

Solar Impulse’s Chief Executive Officer and pilot Andre Borschberg flies in the solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane after its first night flight attempt near Payerne airport, Switzerland, as the sun rises, Thursday, July 8, 2010. An experimental solar-powered plane has landed safely after completing its first 24-hour test flight. The record feat brings it one step closer to the makers’ ultimate aim of circling the globe using only energy from the sun. (AP Photo/Keystone/Fabrice Coffrini/Pool)

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This artists’ rendering provided by the journal Nature shows a raptorial sperm whale, Leviathan melvillei, attacking a medium-size baleen whale off the coast of the area now occupied by Peru. Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago, and they’ve named it after the author of “Moby Dick.” (AP Photo/Nature, C. Letenneur) Read more →

This artists’ rendering provided by the journal Nature shows a raptorial sperm whale, Leviathan melvillei, attacking a medium-size baleen whale off the coast of the area now occupied by Peru. Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago, and they’ve named it after the author of “Moby Dick.” (AP Photo/Nature, C. Letenneur)

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In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a sampler capsule, left, detached from JAXA’s Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a seven-year, 4-billion mile (6-billion kilometer) round-trip journey to an asteroid, lies on the ground with a parachute in a desert in the Woomera Prohibited Area, southern Australia Monday, June 14, 2010, after it reentered to the Earth’s atmosphere late Sunday night. The Hayabusa explorer returned to Earth, burning apart on re-entry after jettisoning the capsule, which is expected to contain the first-ever asteroid samples that could provide clues into the evolution of the solar system. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Read more →

In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a sampler capsule, left, detached from JAXA’s Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a seven-year, 4-billion mile (6-billion kilometer) round-trip journey to an asteroid, lies on the ground with a parachute in a desert in the Woomera Prohibited Area, southern Australia Monday, June 14, 2010, after it reentered to the Earth’s atmosphere late Sunday night. The Hayabusa explorer returned to Earth, burning apart on re-entry after jettisoning the capsule, which is expected to contain the first-ever asteroid samples that could provide clues into the evolution of the solar system. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

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In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Hayabusa space probe, the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid, and its capsule streak across the sky in southern Australia as they reenter the Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Read more →

In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Hayabusa space probe, the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid, and its capsule streak across the sky in southern Australia as they reenter the Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

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In this photo provided by NASA, the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is raised into vertical position at the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock, and Russian Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 3:35 a.m. Kazakhstan time. (AP Photo/NASA, Carla Cioffi) Read more →

In this photo provided by NASA, the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is raised into vertical position at the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock, and Russian Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 3:35 a.m. Kazakhstan time. (AP Photo/NASA, Carla Cioffi)

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A man looks at two fingers of Italian 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei on display at the newly reopened Galileo Museum of science, in Florence, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. The museum director announced that the thumb and middle finger from Galileo’s right hand had turned up at an auction and were recognized as being the fingers of the scientist, who died in 1642. The Museum of the History of Science shut down for two years for renovations and reopened on Tuesday, calling itself The Galileo Museum. (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi) Read more →

A man looks at two fingers of Italian 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei on display at the newly reopened Galileo Museum of science, in Florence, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. The museum director announced that the thumb and middle finger from Galileo’s right hand had turned up at an auction and were recognized as being the fingers of the scientist, who died in 1642. The Museum of the History of Science shut down for two years for renovations and reopened on Tuesday, calling itself The Galileo Museum. (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi)

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A halo forms around the top of the Space X Falcon 9 test rocket as it goes through a cloud after lifting off from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Friday, June 4, 2010. The rocket is carrying a mock-up of the company’s spacecraft, named Dragon. The goal is to put the capsule into orbit. NASA hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon combo for hauling cargo and possibly astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttles stop flying. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, was founded eight years ago by Elon Musk, a South African-born entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal. (AP Photo/John Raoux) Read more →

A halo forms around the top of the Space X Falcon 9 test rocket as it goes through a cloud after lifting off from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Friday, June 4, 2010. The rocket is carrying a mock-up of the company’s spacecraft, named Dragon. The goal is to put the capsule into orbit. NASA hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon combo for hauling cargo and possibly astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttles stop flying. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, was founded eight years ago by Elon Musk, a South African-born entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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This image, provided by Anthony Wesley, shows his view of Jupiter on Thursday, June 3, 2010. The amateur astronomer said he witnessed a bright flash, upper left, from an object hitting the Jovian surface. The discovery was confirmed by another amateur skygazer in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Anthony Wesley) Read more →

This image, provided by Anthony Wesley, shows his view of Jupiter on Thursday, June 3, 2010. The amateur astronomer said he witnessed a bright flash, upper left, from an object hitting the Jovian surface. The discovery was confirmed by another amateur skygazer in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Anthony Wesley)

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In this May 24, 2010 photo made available Wednesday, June 2, 2010, researchers test spacesuits on a simulated Mars surface during a training session at Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. An international crew will launch a 520-day mission to simulate a flight to Mars on Thursday. (AP Photo/IBMP, Oleg Voloshin, HO) Read more →

In this May 24, 2010 photo made available Wednesday, June 2, 2010, researchers test spacesuits on a simulated Mars surface during a training session at Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. An international crew will launch a 520-day mission to simulate a flight to Mars on Thursday. (AP Photo/IBMP, Oleg Voloshin, HO)

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This image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation Sunday May 23, 2010. (AP photo/NASA) Read more →

This image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation Sunday May 23, 2010. (AP photo/NASA)

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The giant ball of the world’s largest Foucault Pendulum creates a pattern as it swings suspended below a glass spire at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth’s daily rotation. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

The giant ball of the world’s largest Foucault Pendulum creates a pattern as it swings suspended below a glass spire at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth’s daily rotation. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

This undated handout image provided by the J. Craig Venter Institute shows negatively stained transmission electron micrographs of aggregated M. mycoides. Scientists announced a bold step Thursday in the enduring quest to create artificial life. They’ve produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA. (AP Photo/J. Craig Venter Institute) Read more →

This undated handout image provided by the J. Craig Venter Institute shows negatively stained transmission electron micrographs of aggregated M. mycoides. Scientists announced a bold step Thursday in the enduring quest to create artificial life. They’ve produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA. (AP Photo/J. Craig Venter Institute)

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A memorial to those who lost their lives in the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens is shown on the 30th anniversary of the volcano’s eruption, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

A memorial to those who lost their lives in the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens is shown on the 30th anniversary of the volcano’s eruption, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

New tree growth is shown amidst downed trees that remain from the violent 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens on the 30th anniversary of the volcano’s 1980 eruption, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

New tree growth is shown amidst downed trees that remain from the violent 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens on the 30th anniversary of the volcano’s 1980 eruption, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Prairie lupine and moss grow in the soil that was once a part of the top of Mount St. Helens in Washington. A massive avalanche carried the soil down the Toutle River Valley. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)

Prairie lupine and moss grow in the soil that was once a part of the top of Mount St. Helens in Washington. A massive avalanche carried the soil down the Toutle River Valley. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)