[ad_1] NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe is set to begin its 12-year space odyssey next month. Lucy is expected to be launched on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida on October 16. Liftoff will launch a historic mission that will see Lucy come close … Read more
[ad_1] Researchers found an annual widening rate of 529 feet to 72 feet. When modeling the thinning of the mixture alone, the results showed an annual widening of 249 feet to 367 feet. According to Dr Larour, the difference is due to the different substances involved. He said: “The mixture is finer than ice cream … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Lucy mission prepares for launch on Trojan asteroidsNasa NASA’s Lucy Mission to Observe Solar System’s First “Fossils”CNN NASA’s record-breaking asteroid Lucy mission prepares for October launchEspace.com NASA science mission Lucy will fly over eight asteroidsUPI News NASA’s next super-ambitious spacecraft Jupiter is almost ready for launchSlashGear See full coverage on Google News [ad_2] … Read more
[ad_1] The Lucy mission has passed all of its pre-launch tests and is expected to leave the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around 5:30 a.m.ET on October 16. The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from Greek mythology, orbit the sun in two swarms – one ahead of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar … Read more
[ad_1] Screen grab from viewer Brandon Warren’s video of a fireball meteor taken Friday at 7:40 p.m. in Willow Spring, NC Brandon warren It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … fireball? A video recently released by the American Meteor Society shows a fireball moving across the sky over North Carolina last Friday. According … Read more
[ad_1] Ice calving from the fracture zone of a glacier crashes into the ocean in Greenland. The melting of this glacial ice causes warping of the earth’s crust. (Image credit: Jason Edwards / Getty Images) The melting of the Earth’s polar ice deforms the earth’s crust. This change in shape is subtle, but it occurs … Read more
[ad_1] Left: In the scheme proposed for probing the SF-QED with current or future lasers, a plasma mirror formed by the radiation pressure converts an intense laser pulse (red) into Doppler-amplified harmonics (purple) and focuses them on a target, reaching extreme intensities. The dimensions involved are tens to hundreds of microns (millionths of a meter); … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Martian Missions: NASA Martian Missions, clockwise from top left: Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, InSight lander, Odyssey orbiter, MAVEN orbiter, Curiosity rover, and Mars Reconnaissance orbiter. Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech. Download image › The missions will continue to collect data on the Red Planet, although returning engineers will stop sending them commands … Read more
[ad_1] Paleontologists in South Australia have found the oldest species belonging to the eagle, and it is millions of years old. The 25-million-year-old fossil was discovered on the remote shore of Lake Pinpa, which has dried up since 2016. America is changing faster than ever! Add Change America to your Facebook Where Twitter feed to … Read more
[ad_1] A decade of Jovian storm chasing has paid off for the Hubble Space Telescope. The longtime telescope has studied the Great Red Spot – a major storm on Jupiter – which is shrinking for mysterious reasons. Along with this, researchers have just discovered huge changes in wind speed within the massive storm. Jupiter takes … Read more