Planet Venus: Hopes rise of new mission to the hothouse world0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 23, 2019
The longstanding idea that Venus is geologically dead is a “myth”, scientists say.
The longstanding idea that Venus is geologically dead is a “myth”, scientists say.
A researcher interacts with Kunxun, a dog cloned from a police dog, in Beijing, China February 22, 2019.
Tombs contained remains of more than 100 people and vessels used by Incas for performing death rites
Using radar data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are driven by processes similar to those responsible for ice ages on Earth, that is, long-term cyclical changes in the planet’s orbit and tilt, which affect the amount of solar radiation it receives at each latitude.
Ferry rides are one of the most relaxing past times and are popular with tourists and local people alike. Ferries are a good way to get away from the rat race, just sit out in the open water and relax in the sun. However, for one ferry in Japan though, their relaxing trip was soon cut short.
China has released hundreds of images of the moon, taken by its Chang’e 3 lander and its companion rover, Yutu. It’s been 50 years since the first lunar photos were taken by astronauts on NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. China is the third nation to land on the Moon, with the USA and the USSR preceding them.
The weapon has archaeologists rethinking America’s earliest settlers.
This Sept. 23, 2018 image captured by Rover-1B, and provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the surface of asteroid Ryugu.
Dave Shealy is on a mission to prove the existence of the so-called Skunk Ape which is considered to be the Everglades answer to Bigfoot, distinguished from its famous relative by its apparently distinctive, pungent scent. But is it really true that Shealy has a previously unresearched creature in his sights?
Major tectonic collisions near the equator have caused three ice ages in the last 540 million years