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A few of the samples from Hayabusa2 are inches in dimension
On December 5th, a ball of fire raced across the sky - the sample return capsule of the asteroid mission Hayabusa2 from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). The capsule landed in Woomera, a remote place in the Australian outback.…
“USGS will get politics out of local weather forecasts” – is that true?
Guest "lost another thing in the November coup" by David Middleton
USGS Director Jim Reilly recently wrote a statement in the Wall Street Journal ...
USGS gets politics out of climate forecastsMy agency is making a significant…
The plans for a Mars pattern return mission have moved to the following stage
Last summer, NASA's Perseverance Rover took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will arrive on Mars on February 18, 2021 and collectively search for evidence of past (and perhaps even present) life. A particularly exciting aspect of…
Which of those is the best “crime in opposition to humanity” in 2020?
From Savvy Street.com
By Vinay Kolhatkar
Article 7 of the Rome Statute states:
For the purposes of this Statute, “crimes against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed in the context of a widespread or…
Planetary scientists have created a map of all of Mars’ historical river techniques
Navigating and mapping rivers has long been a central part of human exploration. Whether it was Powell exploring the Colorado Gorges or Pizarro using the Amazon to find El Dorado, rivers and our exploration were extremely important. Now…
May the Covid Lockdown have helped save us from local weather change? – Watts up with that?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Guardian, the Covid lockdown brought "heartwarming" images of sheep grazing in an abandoned children's playground and gave us an insight into what could be possible under a future climate…
ESA is working by itself reusable booster stage
It's an exciting time to be exploring space! All over the world, national space agencies are sending missions into space and preparing to send astronauts into orbit and to the moon. At the same time, the commercial aerospace industry…
New Covid-19 Outbreak in Beijing, China – What’s Up With It?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h / t Breitbart; Beijing has gone into "emergency mode" to contain a new Covid-19 outbreak discovered near Beijing International Airport, according to SCMP.
New controls have been introduced in the…
Asteroids plunging into lifeless stars assist clarify the place the universe’s lacking lithium…
What happened to all that lithium? The question has preoccupied astronomers for decades. While cosmologists have successfully predicted the abundance of other light elements from the Big Bang, lithium has always come up short. Now…
China’s energy to “march” non-public financial savings into local weather mega-projects will…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
How will Joe Biden compile US citizens' personal savings to tackle the climate crisis? According to the United Nations, half of the $ 75 trillion needed to save the world from climate change must come from…