Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar surface, making it an archive of extraterrestrial technology.
The conjoined spacecraft known as BepiColombo could enter orbit in November before splitting from each other in December to study the entire planet from different altitudes.
Scientists say they’ve discovered a 10-sided wave pattern over Saturn’s south pole.
A team of Chinese researchers used artificial intelligence to scan millions of seismic recordings and identified six never-before-documented formations deep at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its liquid outer core. The structures sit roughly 1,800 miles below the planet's surface, in one of the most extreme and least understood environments on Earth. Temperatures at […] The post Chinese scientists find six unknown structures buried 1,800 miles beneath Earth's surface appeared first on American Almanac .
A team of Chinese researchers used artificial intelligence to scan millions of seismic recordings and identified six never-before-documented formations deep at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its liquid outer core. The structures sit roughly 1,800 miles below the planet's surface, in one of the most extreme and least understood environments on Earth. Temperatures at the mantle-core boundary swing by about 1,000°C, nearly 1,800°F, across a relatively thin transition zone where solid, slow-moving rock meets liquid metal. The researchers described the formations as "deep-seated scatterers" and "thermochemical piles," terms that refer to regions where the rock composition or temperature differs sharply from the surrounding mantle…Open
A small, leggy figure that appeared in a NASA rover photo on Mars and then vanished from subsequent frames has fueled a fresh round of online speculation about what, exactly, the Curiosity rover keeps finding on the Red Planet. The image dates back to August 20, 2023, when NASA's Curiosity rover snapped several photos of […] The post NASA's Curiosity rover captured a strange 'jellyfish' figure on Mars — and nobody has explained it appeared first on American Almanac .
A small, leggy figure that appeared in a NASA rover photo on Mars and then vanished from subsequent frames has fueled a fresh round of online speculation about what, exactly, the Curiosity rover keeps finding on the Red Planet. The image dates back to August 20, 2023, when NASA's Curiosity rover snapped several photos of the Martian surface around 6:27 p.m. ET. In one panoramic shot, a small object sits in the left corner of the frame, something that appears to have a body with two small legs , set against a dusty landscape of rocky hills. Photos taken less than a minute earlier show no trace of it. No other images captured that day recorded the figure. And NASA has offered no public explanation for the anomaly. An image three years old…Open
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Google searches for "gravity" are up 80% this week when compared with the previous week.
Astronomers and skywatchers are hoping to witness the collision and the plume of material blasted into space, Reuters reports
It’s not the first time Curiosity has spotted “polygonal fractures" but never on this scale.