Space Review: Review: Chasing the Moon

[ad_1] by Jeff FoustMonday, July 8, 2019 Chasing the Moon: the people, politics and promise that launched America in the space ageby Robert Stone and Alan AndresBallatine, 2019hardcover, 384 p., illus.ISBN 978-1-5247-9812-3$ 32.00 As the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reach their crescendo this month, television launches into the act. A number … Read more

Voyager 2 transformed our ideas of the moons of Jupiter 40 years ago

[ad_1] Forty years ago today, a NASA spacecraft has revealed solid evidence that an icy moon of Jupiter could accommodate life. On July 2, 1979, Voyager 2 went through the Jupiter system and discovered a host of surprises, including a series of cracks on the surface of one of Jupiter's moons, Europa. According to NASA, … Read more

Supervolcano fears: "Big One" come

[ad_1] The Silex source in the Fountain Paint Pot area in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Reuters / Jim Urquhart) The amazing California "seismic break" is over. He should already have had several "fat" now. All this pressure has to go somewhere. Now geologists are nervously watching eight nearby volcanoes. And why is the Yellowstone Supervolcano … Read more

SpaceX gets closer to Starship's debut – BGR

[ad_1] SpaceX has had an incredibly busy year right now, with a regular series of rocket launches and new initiatives such as Starlink in the very early stages, as well as the Starship project looming on the horizon. Starship is the future SpaceX rocket platform that could someday take travelers to Mars and beyond. In … Read more

Florida SpaceX Orbital Shipyard Damages After Firing

[ad_1] Documented on Twitch and covered by several local reporters and photographers, an accident at SpaceX's Florida Space campus caused a minor fire that caused between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 in damages. According to information leaked by the Cocoa Fire Department after a quick reaction to the fire, it may be the second SpaceX … Read more

A clearer picture of the overall mass of the ice cap

[ad_1] The Antarctic Ice Sheet. Credit: Stephen Hudson / Wikipedia Fluctuations in the masses of the world's largest ice caps have important consequences for future sea-level rise, but it has never been easy to measure the magnitude of the interactions between the conditions. atmospheric, snow inputs and melt processes due to the size and remoteness … Read more