When I first saw Mars, it looked like a red star among a sea of bright white stars. It was a terrific moment when I thought of the many spaceships that humans have sent millions of miles to visit our planetary neighbor.
And this week, a fleet of robots exploring Mars revealed new secrets.
Mars may not be a place to raise your kids, but it is a real playground for NASA’s Perseverance rover, Ingenuity helicopter, and InSight spacecraft.
Ingenuity recently dived into craters and flew over rough terrain like an aerial scout in its longest and fastest flight – and
he took breathtaking pictures of geological objects that change the direction of Perseverance Rover research.
The Perseverance team also shared some of the first important observations made by the rover this week, including:
surprisingly strange stones that may contain evidence of ancient microbial lifeif he ever existed on Mars. Percy will take his first sample from Mars in the next two weeks and will be one of dozens to return to Earth in future missions.
We are Family
Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci remembers and connects a lot –
now there are 14 living descendants, according to new research.
This is a strange find since Leonardo was childless. But researchers have traced its origins in other ways.
Historians hope to use this information to learn more about Leonardo’s genius and views on his health, including
whether he had a rare eye condition…
consequences
Wherein
the last of Xerses’ blue butterflies floated in the air in the early 1940s. As the first American insect to be killed by humans, it has become a symbol of insect protection.
These pearl-winged periwinkle insects lived in the coastal dunes of San Francisco and were first characterized by scientists in 1852. But people have destroyed their habitat.
This is a difficult memory among what many scientists call “
insect apocalypse“As the number of species is declining all over the world. While not all of them are as cute as the blue Xerces butterfly, insects are more important to our lives than most people think.
Power of nature
The violent wildfires in the western United States are so violent that they actually create their own climate and
visible smoke from space…
These fires are not only a problem in the West; Smoke haze crashing down on the USA
causes poor air quality on the east coast…
Rare mushroom formations could be seen over the fires. These pyrocumulus clouds rise above the ash and smoke of raging forest fires and
can be seen for miles…
And it’s not just the US that is suffering from devastating wildfires caused by the climate crisis. Forest fires are burning all over the world
even in the coldest city in the world…
across the universe
It may look like a ring of fire, but this is a real image of the planetary system still boiling 400 light years away, taken with the large millimeter / submillimeter array of Atacama telescopes in Chile.
However, two Jupiter-like planets revolve around the star.
Moon-shaped disc discovered by astronomers around one of the planets – and they saw something like this for the first time.
The disk around the planet is 500 times larger than the massive rings around Saturn.
Scientists plan to monitor this system to observe the formation and growth of planets and possibly even moons.
oddities
A little more intrigue before leaving:
– Unknown viruses 15,000 years old have been found in ice samples taken from a glacier in the highlands of Tibet – and
They are unlike anything that scientists have ever seen.…
– Meet Wally Funk, 80, who was trained for NASA’s Women in Space Program but was
denied the ability to fly – so far… and this
What will happen next after two billionaires took quick trips to the stars.
– It is not easy for a wild cockatoo to open trash cans. But in Australia they have representatives of a certain species.
taught each other to do… Leftovers, anyone?
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