Will Trump go to Mars? Nasa's nervous wait
In Nasa language it’s called a pivot. It’s a policy change, a U-turn or a departure from a goal set by the previous US president. Until the election of Donald Trump, space insiders and even Nasa itself had a pretty good idea what, under a Hillary Clinton presidency, that pivot was going to be. It wasn’t going to be popular but it was necessary. People had been whispering it for more than a year. Even as the Nasa PR machine talked endlessly about “the journey to Mars”, those in the know understo..>> view originalStudy Offers New Insight On How Pluto's Icy Heart Came To Be
The ice of Pluto is a two-lobed formation on its surface which has sparked the interest of researchers ever since NASA's New Horizons discovered it back in 2015. One of the two lobes, the western one, has been subjected to more scientific attention due to its mysterious formation and the types of ice it hosts. The lobe was named Sputnik Planitia informally, and it is a deep basin containing carbon monoxide, methane and frozen nitrogen. The lobe appears to be opposite to the dwarf planet's tidal..>> view originalDespite Schiaparelli Lander Crash, ESA Still Gets Funding Greenlighted For ExoMars Mission
About a month and a half after the shocking Schiaparelli lander crash in late October, the European Space Agency will still be pushing on with the ExoMars mission, and will still be launching a U.K.-made rover to explore the surface of Mars. This comes after research officials agreed on Friday to inject 450 million Euros ($480 million U.S.) worth of funds for the mission. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the ExoMars funding was green-lit as part of a broader budget approved over a tw..>> view originalBuzz Aldrin still recovering after emergency airlift from the South Pole
Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969, but that wasn’t the end of his travels. Nearly half a century later, he continues to explore, this time the South Pole’s frozen expanse. But unlike his successful return flight in the command module with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins back in the day, he needed a little help getting off this landscape. The 86 year old Aldrin posted these pre-trip photos on Twitter last week: I could be a little underdressed for Antarctica. Although I tend ..>> view originalIvanka Trump ill-suited to boost US apparel manufacturing
If President-elect Donald Trump needs an object lesson on the difficulty of reviving broad sectors of U.S. manufacturing, he need look only as far as his daughter’s closet. Ivanka Trump’s $100 million apparel line is sewn in Asian countries under a licensing agreement with G-III Apparel Group Inc., which has expanded from making coats in New York’s Garment District to become a manufacturer of global scope. That method of selling $140 sheath dresses and $80 sweaters could mean political embarras..>> view originalFour New Super-Heavy Elements Have Now Been Officially Christened
Ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium — these were the temporary names given to four new super-heavy elements by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) back in December. Now, a year later, these elements have been bestowed official names and have earned their spots in the periodic table.Earlier this week, the IUPAC — the organization in charge of naming and categorizing elements, among other things — revealed the official names of the four elements — nihonium..>> view originalBipedal Bear's Apparent Death Motivates Bear Hunt Opponents
New Jersey's long-debated black bear hunts have stoked strong passions, blasted by animal rights activists as inhumane and supported by hunters and wildlife officials who say they help control the population and minimize run-ins with humans. But the death of a bear presumed to be one that walked on two feet and became a social media darling has become a rallying cry for hunt opponents as they prepare to stage protests during the second segment of this year's hunt, which starts Monday. It's s..>> view originalWhy is a blue cloud appearing over Antarctica?
The South Pole’s special blanket of clouds usually rolls in during late November and early December, just in time to give the Southern Hemisphere its very own light show for the holidays.But this year, NASA says that the South Pole’s annual noctilucent, or night-shining, cloud show arrived much sooner than expected, in mid-November. Usually, NASA uses the unusual clouds to decode the surrounding mesosphere, the atmospheric layer directly above the stratosphere, explained NASA's Lina Tran in a b..>> view original
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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