[ad_1] After a year of preliminary design and several revisions, NASA confirmed the Caltech-led Lunar Trailblazer mission to proceed with final design and construction. Selected in June 2019 with delivery of the flight system scheduled in October 2022, the Lunar Trailblazer mission aims at one of the most surprising discoveries …
Read More »Solved the 16-year-old cosmic mystery by revealing a stellar missing link
[ad_1] Image of the Blue Ring Nebula, composed of expanding (blue) hydrogen gas expanding from a central star, which is the remnant core of a stellar fusion. Shockwave filaments from the fusion event are displayed in red. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / NASA / JPL-Caltech / M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution …
Read More »Study: Solar geoengineering may not be a long-term solution to climate change
[ad_1] Sowing the atmosphere with aerosols would not prevent high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from destabilizing low clouds, opening the door to extreme warming Pumping aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, thereby cooling the Earth, is a next-generation method of dealing with climate change. According to …
Read More »Former bottom piece of the Pacific Ocean taken deep beneath China
[ad_1] In a study that gives new meaning to the term “rock bottom,” seismic researchers discovered the underside of a rock slab of the Earth’s surface layer, or lithosphere, which was dragged more than 400 miles below north China. from the tectonic subduction process. A graph showing the convective heat …
Read More »The solar system was formed in less than 200,000 years
[ad_1] The artistic conception of the dust and gas surrounding a newly formed planetary system. Image courtesy of NASA. A long time ago – about 4.5 billion years – our sun and our solar system formed in the short span of 200,000 years. This is the conclusion of a group …
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