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PLANO, Texas, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CLG Energy Finance, LLC, an affiliate of Beal Bank focused on financing opportunities in the energy industry, announces a new financing with ERG Resources, L.L.C. ("ERG"). Jonathan Shepko, a Director with CLG Energy Finance, said, "The ERG financing provides the proven management team of ERG with the funding to continue the successful development of its substantial asset base in Southern California." ERG will use the proceeds from the...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online By studying photographs of Saturn's moon Titan, researchers from a pair of US universities have discovered that the satellite's river networks caused little erosion in some areas, leading them to believe that either erosion there is exceptionally slow or that some other phenomenon wiped out older riverbeds and landforms. The research, which was conducted by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) is proud to announce the Third Annual Latino Employee Resource Group (ERG) Summit and Corporate Challenge on Monday, September 17, 2012 at the 33rd Annual National Convention in Los Angeles, California. The Latino ERG Summit and Corporate Challenge is a key component of the USHCC 33rd Annual National Convention and has been designed to bring Latino ERGs together to share best...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered tropical lakes on Saturn's moon Titan, one of which is about half the size of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Previous models had assumed the long-standing bodies of liquid only existed at the poles on the moon, but the latest findings published in this week's issue of the journal Nature shows the methane lakes in the "tropics" of Titan. Caitlin Griffith, the paper's lead author, said that the liquid for these lakes likely...

Geologists at the University of Washington found that a previously unseen landform on Mars could help provide a window into the geological history of the Red Planet. The "periodic bedrock ridges", or PBRs, look like sand dunes, but the scientists say that they are actually made from wind erosion of bedrock. "These bedforms look for all the world like sand dunes but they are carved into hard rock by wind," David Montgomery, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences, said in a press...

In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution to basic science, but the findings may also hold implications for identifying when dune landscapes like those in Nebraska’s Sand Hills may reach a “tipping point” under climate change, going from valuable grazing land to barren desert. The study was conducted by...

Researchers studying Saturn’s moon Titan -- a natural satellite roughly half of Earth’s diameter, with a thick atmosphere of methane and a surface temperature of nearly -300 degrees Fahrenheit and the only other body in our solar system that has large bodies of liquid on its surface -- have created a computer model of its atmosphere and methane cycle that, for the first time, explains how lakes and storms form and exist on the distant moon. The new model, created by researchers led by...

Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published analysis, a pair of NASA scientists analyzing data collected by the Cassini spacecraft suggest Titan may be much less geologically active than some scientists have thought.In the paper, published in the April 2011 edition of the journal Icarus, scientists conclude Titan's interior may be cool and...

Titan, one of Saturn's moons, is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere "” ten times denser than the atmosphere of Earth. Five years ago, the Cassini"“Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, sent a probe through Titan's atmosphere, revealing that Titan is home to a landscape that includes hills, valleys and most notably lakes.A researcher involved with the mission, Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun of Tel Aviv University's Department of...

Saturn's moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. The best explanation, it turns out, is that Titan is shrinking as it cools, wrinkling up the moon's surface like a raisin.A new model developed by scientists working with radar data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that differing densities in the outermost layers of Titan can account for the unusual surface behavior. Titan is slowly cooling because it is releasing heat from its...