Saturn’s rings, imaged based on radio data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Green indicates regions with particles smaller than 5 centimeters; purple is where no particles are that small. The white area is so dense that it blocked radio signals. NASA/JPL Saturn’s seven icy rings each spin at their own speed, […]
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Periodical cicadas emerge from underground in the spring of their 13th or 17th year. Fifteen US states, and Washington, DC, are about to see a whole lot of them. Getty Images Parts of the Eastern United States will soon witness a remarkable sight: billions of cicadas emerging from underground […]
An artist’s illustration of ancient impacts on Saturn’s moon Titan Science Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo By Jonathan O’CallaghanMar. 19, 2021 , 11:30 AM Saturn’s frigid moon Titan has long intrigued scientists searching for life in the Solar System. Its surface is coated in organic hydrocarbons, and its icy crust is […]
A spectacular and dramatic ultraviolet auroras on Jupiter is generated by charged particles escaping its volcanic moon Io, according to a new NASA study. The origins of the bright blue circular aurora were revealed by the NASA Juno spacecraft, which is currently studying the gas giant from orbit. The Jovian polar […]
Short or long, closefitting or loosely accommodating, they began gaining traction last fall with a boost from “The Undoing.” In that popular HBO thriller, Grace, Nicole Kidman’s character, a Manhattan therapist, saunters around the Upper East Side in a succession of slender jewel-tone wraps that, to viewers, were objects of […]
The footage gave the world a glimpse of an often entirely invisible process, including the deployment of the parachute to slow down the spacecraft after entering the atmosphere. The 70.5-foot supersonic parachute was an extraordinary engineering challenge, said Ian Clark, systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. […]
The Daily Beast When 60 Minutes’ Hysteria Nearly Shot Down a NASA Mission to Saturn NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute through Getty Couple of obstacles can have been a lot more serious. For a spacecraft to reach the Jovian system with adequate rate to ultimately accomplish orbit around Europa, it had to […]
What could be much more amazing than flying a helicopter over the deserts of Mars? How concerning playing Captain Nemo on Saturn’s huge, unclear moon Titan– pipes the midsts of a methane sea, evading hydrocarbon icebergs and also discovering an old, icy coastline of natural goo a billion miles from […]