Cosmic Bling: Jupiter Sports Stormy 'Pearl' in New Juno Photo
One of Jupiter's stormy "pearls" appears as a white oval on the left side of this new image by NASA's Juno spacecraft taken on Dec. 11, 2016. This is the seventh of eight massive storms that make up Jupiter's "string of pearls" storms, NASA says. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Saturn's rings may be the jewels of the solar system, but Jupiter wears "pearls," and a NASA spacecraft has the picture to prove it. NASA's Juno spacecraft, which made its third close flyby of Jupiter on Sunda..>> view originalDrill Issue Continues to Afflict Mars Rover Curiosity
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity prepares for a mini-drill test on a rock target called "Mojave" in January 2015. This photo was taken by one of the rover's hazard cameras. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN FRANCISCO — Mission controllers have a better understanding of the problem that cropped up recently with the Mars rover Curiosity's drill, but a fix remains elusive. On Dec. 1, Curiosity detected an anomaly with its "drill feed mechanism," which pushes the rover's rock-boring drill outward ..>> view originalAsteroid Or Comet Strike May Lead To Extinction: Here's How Scientists Plan To Save The Earth
A 2015 study by researchers from New York University that was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed that many of the mass extinction events on Earth have been caused by comet strikes. Unfortunately despite advances in technology, humans remain ill-equipped in protecting themselves should a life-threatening comet or asteroid strikes planet Earth again. Joseph Nuth, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, sounded the alarm at the American Geophy..>> view originalHere is the worst defense of climate change skepticism that you will ever see
Anthony Scaramucci, a member of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team's executive committee and founder and co-managing partner of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, talks with reporters at Trump Tower in New York City on Nov. 17. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Anthony Scaramucci is a Wall Street guy who serves on the executive committee of Donald Trump's transition team. He was a late adopter of Trumpism, having started off backing Scott Walker and eventually migrating to Je..>> view originalTrump transition says request for names of climate scientists was 'not authorized'
The Trump transition team appeared to back away from a controversial questionnaire sent to the Energy Department last week that had asked for the names of department staffers who had worked on several climate-change initiatives under President Obama. “The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol,” Trump’s transition team said in a statement to The Washington Post. “The person who sent it has been properly counseled.” [Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks ..>> view originalTiger Tail Seahorse Genome Sequencing Helps Understand Evolution Of This Unique Fish
The seahorse is an evolutionary marvel. It is a fish but doesn’t have a tail fin or a pelvic fin, and swims vertically; it doesn’t have any teeth and sucks in food through its pipe-like mouth; bones cover the exterior of its body like armor; and it is one of the only three known families of fish in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth.So what makes the seahorse so unique? An international team of scientists from University of Konstanz, Germany, along with others from China and Singapore,..>> view originalMeet Chewie, the Biggest Australopithecus on Record
The sound was more like a squish than a thud, as the tall male australopith strode across the East African savannah. A volcanic eruption had left a patina of grey ash underfoot, while rainstorms that followed transformed the earth into wet cement. Squish, squish. Four smaller individuals walked not far behind. Squish, squish, squish. Later, ash rained down from the sky again, covering their tracks for 3.66 million years. The first traces of this journey — tracks from three individuals that are t..>> view originalColorado Approves Controversial 'Predator Control Plans' To Help Mule Deer Population
As part of its predator management strategy, Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission approved Wednesday two controversial ‘Predator Control Plans’ to help the state’s dwindling mule deer population. In a unanimous vote, the commission decided to move ahead with its plan to reduce the numbers of mountain lions and black bears in two regions within the state.The process of consultation about managing the deer population in the Piceance Basin and Upper Arkansas River areas began September 2..>> view originalDelays push Orbital launch closer to ULA launch
Multiple delays of an Orbital ATK launch have created a bit of a logjam on the Space Coast.A scheduled launch set for Thursday morning will be one of two there in the next four days. United Launch Alliance said Wednesday that its launch for a private company’s communications satellite is on schedule to take off Sunday afternoon.That will follow a NASA mission with Orbital set to take off Thursday at 8:26 a.m. Orbital's Stargazer plane, which will carry the rocket, took off smoothly this morn..>> view original[ December 13, 2016 ] SpaceX's first crew launch moved back to 2018 News
Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX Astronauts will not fly to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship until at least May 2018, NASA said this week, missing a previous target launch date at the end of next year. The delay was expected after Boeing, which is also developing a commercial crew capsule, announced earlier this year its spaceship would not be ready for crew ferry missions until at least mid-2018, and after a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro..>> view original
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