[ad_1] With less than two weeks before the country’s very first interplanetary mission orbiting Mars, scientists in the United Arab Emirates can’t wait for the Orbiter of Hopethe arrival of. The UAE launched Hope in July 2020, one of three missions with an optimal window to head to the Red Planet, along with the Chinese … Read more
[ad_1] Watch nucleation at an early stage In the classical theory of nucleation, a dense, disordered metastable liquid or amorphous solid mass spontaneously and irreversibly transforms into a crystal nucleus. Jeon et al. observed the formation of gold crystals on a graphene substrate thanks to the reduction of a precursor using an electron beam. Rather … Read more
[ad_1] SEATTLE, Washington – Do you feel like weird things always happen when there is a full moon? You might be right, but the reason isn’t in the stars, it might be in your bedroom. Lunar cycles can have a major impact on human sleep patterns, new study finds. Researchers from the United States and … Read more
[ad_1] Bare-nosed wombats, or common wombats, can be found in the forests of the hilly landscapes of southern and southeastern Australia and in Tasmania. Furry marsupials are renowned for producing distinctive cuboid droppings, which researchers believe then tactically disperse in order to communicate with each other. Now scientists at the University of Tasmania have discovered … Read more
[ad_1] The Emirates Mars mission, known as the Hope Probe, will orbit Mars on February 9. The mission was one of three missions launched to Mars from Earth in July, including NASA’s Perseverance rover and China’s Tianwen-1 mission. Hope will revolve around the planet, Tianwen-1 will orbit and land on the planet, and Perseverance will … Read more
[ad_1] Earth’s second moon will move closer to the planet next week before drifting into space, never to be seen again. “What a second moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that fell on Earth’s orbit halfway between our planet and the moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these … Read more
[ad_1] Mead Crater, the largest impact basin on Venus, is surrounded by two rings of rock, which provide valuable information about the planet’s lithosphere. Credit: NASA At one point, between 300 million and 1 billion years ago, a large cosmic object crashed into the planet Venus, leaving a crater over 170 miles in diameter. A … Read more
[ad_1] Enlarge / Northrop Grumman performed validation testing of its GEM 63XL rocket engine on January 21 at its facility in Promontory, Utah. Northrop Grumman Welcome to Rocket Report edition 3.31! Most of the news this week has happened with larger rockets, with one particularly interesting item regarding NASA’s Falcon Heavy rocket and the Europa … Read more
[ad_1] The US space agency’s Perseverance rover is only three weeks away from its arrival on Mars. The robot’s current distance from the Red Planet is still around 4.5 million km (3 million miles), but this gap is closing at a rapid rate. The largest and most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to land on another … Read more
[ad_1] The mystery of the Dyatlov Pass has been raising questions for more than half a century. Soviet researchers / Creative Commons The Dyatlov Pass incident is a chilling story most often told in a whisper around a campfire, but this very real – and very mysterious – event has long been the subject of … Read more