Thursday, October 17, 2024

Meteorites hit

"The Earth has been constantly hit by meteorites in its long life time, but scientists only now working out where they came from have found surprising results."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/earth-meteorite-asteroid/

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Jupiter’s Icy Moon

"A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, 
Florida."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1482xzrge1o

Monday, October 14, 2024

Great Red Spot variations

"New observations of the Great Red Spot (GRS), Jupiter’s enormous storm, have revealed that it is less stable than previously thought."https://www.iflscience.com/watch-jupiters-great-red-spot-wobbling-like-jelly-and-we-do-not-know-why-76322?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Hera

"The Hera mission is a follow-on operation, which will examine Didymos and it moon, Dimorphos, after the latter was struck by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft."https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/07/live-coverage-esas-hera-mission-to-launch-on-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral/

Coronal Mass Ejections

"Scientists with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Group (SWPC) said that a cloud of charged solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, slammed into Earth around midday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm that could impact power grids and GPS and radio communications systems, as well as amplify aurora displays in regions that typically don't see them."


https://www.space.com/extreme-solar-storm-affects-auroras-power-grids-october-2024?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Friday, October 11, 2024

NASA Jet Propulsion

"Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/first-greenhouse-gas-plumes-detected-with-nasa-designed-instrument/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20241010

Monday, October 7, 2024

JWST detected Carbon Dioxide

"Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon."

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-pluto-icy-moon-charon?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter