1. march a fireball meteor crossed the sky above Oslo. A few days later, an elderly woman found a large piece - the size of a fist - of the meteorite in her house. Eventhough a hole in the roof does not sound like luck, the meteorite is a rare and thus profitable Breccia meteorite, costing as much as 800 EUR/gr.

Sources: AFP eg. Daiy Telegraph

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

A chance alignment of planets during a passing gust of the solar wind has allowed scientists to compare the protective effects of Earth’s magnetic field with that of Mars’ naked atmosphere. The result is clear: Earth’s magnetic field is vital for keeping our atmosphere in place.

Even in Mars's thin atmosphere, heating by the Sun can create small tornadoes (or twisters). Due to the low pressure on Mars, they are not so violent as on Earth, buts towers even higher up into the atmosphere. A few weeks ago, the MRO orbiter caugth an exceptional twister on the surface