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Space & Cosmos
From Earth to Space: Test technology with lava tubes for future space exploration
The DLR scout roller is designed to explore the complex terrain of the lava tube. Credit: Roy LichTenheldt, DLR Are the ancient lava pipes in the Canary Islands common to space exploration? For the robot team, I knew quite a lot. Our researchers have traveled to Lanzalot, 18,000 km away from the home of Brisbane, and tested navigation and mapping…
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Space & Cosmos
How well the life of the earth can survive in Explanet?
This simple graphic indicates the atmosphere composition of the test bottle. Each bottle is a combination of different atmosphere composition and pressure. LB is an abbreviation of Sole -based soup, a source of nutrition of Escherichia coli K12. Credit: ARXIV (2025). Doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2501.05297 Astronomers have found some wilderly planets. Some are lava balls, which are hell temperature, one is partially…
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Space & Cosmos
A private spacecraft in the United States heading to the moon shoots the wonderful scenery of the earth
This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace shows that Firefly’s Blue GHOST moon landing boat captures Blue Marble on Thursday, January 23, 2025, on the orbit around the earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Via AP A US private spacecraft heading to the moon shot an amazing image of the earth a week after the flight. The Firefly Aeros -pace lunar landing boat,…
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Space & Cosmos
Image: Earth in far ultraviolet light
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a deep-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black and white photograph was printed three times on Agfacontour professional film, recording only one light level at each exposure. The three light levels are then colored blue (darkest), green (next…
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2024 will be the hottest year on Earth as global warming trends continue
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Earth experienced its warmest year on record in 2024, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European-led environmental monitoring program. The service said last year it exceeded the limit of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial average set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international agreement aimed at reducing and reducing…
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Other Sciences
Play for the Earth: 5 climate change games for the holiday season
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Most people in the UK are concerned about climate change, but disagreements over what to do can be polarizing, especially at Christmas when norms around travel, presents and waste are in the spotlight. is remarkable. People who are concerned about climate change and environmental sustainability can feel isolated from family and friends who don’t want to…
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A man researching Google Earth discovers a mysterious scar in the Australian outback. Now I know what caused it
Credit: Author provided/Google Earth Earlier this year, a cave explorer was poring over satellite images of the Nullarbor Plain when he discovered something unexpected. It was a huge mysterious scar carved into the barren land. This discovery intrigued scientists, including my colleagues and myself. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the scar was created by a violent tornado that…
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Environment
Earth records second-warmest October on record in 175 years: 2024 on pace to become world’s warmest year on record
Annotated world map plotting the most important climate changes for October 2024. Credit: NOAA Headquarters Earth had another unusually warm month, with October 2024 ranking as the second-warmest October in NOAA’s 175-year global climate record. October will add another mild month to 2024, almost certainly the warmest year on record on Earth, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Center for…
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Space & Cosmos
Image: Astronauts take photos of Earth from the International Space Station
Credit: NASA/Don Pettit Earth’s city lights streak through this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on October 24, 2024. The green glow of Earth’s atmosphere is also visible on the horizon. Since the station became operational in November 2000, the crew has produced hundreds of thousands of images like this through crew Earth observations. Their photos of the…
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Environment
Earth experienced a period of massive and rapid melting after the last ice age, new research suggests
Credit: CC0 Public Domain At the end of the last global ice age, the frigid Earth reached a pre-built limit of climate change and melted into a slimy planet. The results of the Virginia Tech-led study show direct evidence of a slushy planet (also known as the “Plume World Ocean” era), when sky-high carbon dioxide concentrations sent the frozen Earth…
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