Formation of the moon brought water to Earth0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 23, 2019
New research explains how Earth became a habitable planet
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In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2019
NASA hasn’t launched living creatures to deep space (on purpose) since 1972.
Is the Great Red Spot Unraveling?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2019
Around the world, amateur astronomers are monitoring a strange phenomenon on the verge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS).
7 things we’ve learned about Ultima Thule, the farthest place visited by humans0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 21, 2019
About a billion miles more distant than Pluto is Ultima Thule, a peanut-shaped object in the outer solar system that’s the farthest place ever visited by humans.
Shrinking moon may be generating moonquakes0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2019
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisin, the Moon gets wrinkles as it shrinks. Unlike the flexible skin on a grape, the Moon’s surface crust is brittle, so it breaks as the Moon shrinks, forming “thrust faults” where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part.
Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 18, 2019
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun – and prevent a collision with Jupiter.
Sedimentary, dear Johnson: Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2019
In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock predominates on the Red Planet, virtually the entire Earth fossil record comes from sedimentary rocks.
Curtin planetary scientist unravels mystery of Egyptian desert glass0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2019
A Curtin University researcher has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that glass found in the Egyptian desert was created by a meteorite impact, rather than atmospheric airburst, in findings that have implications for understanding the threat posed by asteroids.
Chinese mission uncovers secrets on the far side of the moon0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 16, 2019
China’s Chang’e-4 mission, the first to land on the far side of the moon, is shedding light on one of the moon’s biggest mysteries, according to a new study.
Mars Odyssey Examines Phobos in Infrared Light0
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- May 15, 2019
On April 24, 2019, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captured a new thermal image of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. Each color in the full-moon image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera.
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