El hallazgo de un extenso depósito de agua "fósil" en Sicilia podría contribuir a solucionar los graves problemas de escasez de agua en el sur de Europa y el norte de África.Un artículo publicado recientemente en la revista Communications Earth & Environment desvela la presencia de un inmenso depósito subterráneo de agua dulce en...
Es "la primera vez que se observan minerales del manto inferior en la naturaleza".IMAGENLos científicos declaran haber encontrado un mineral poco común que procede directamente del manto inferior del Planeta -el local entre el núcleo y la corteza del planeta- en una reciente investigación publicada en Science.Este descubrimiento es una maravilla, ya que ningún...
Crédito: Istock.Recientemente, el Washington Post ha informado de que los científicos han conseguido llegar al manto de la Tierra perforando aproximadamente una milla por debajo del fondo del océano. Este significativo éxito ha sido posible gracias al JOIDES Resolution, un buque de perforación oceánica.Es importante aclarar que los científicos no realizaron perforaciones precisas en...
The image shows the asteroid Kleopatra and its two small moons, AlexHelios and CleoSelene, based on data gathered in July 2017. Credit: ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)Scientists Fetch Best Pictures to Date of 'Dog Bone' Asteroid and Two Tiny MoonsNew monitorings of an asteroid shaped like a dog bone and its two tiny moons...
Perseverance rover. Credit: NASANASA's Perseverance wanderer on Mars has started its perfect rock collection.Perseverance Rover Achieves Historic Milestone: Successful Martian Rock Core CollectionThe wanderer, which was created to search for indications of ancient life on Mars and package up product for a future sample-return goal, made its first two effective tasting maneuvers on Monday...
In this image, we see the asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA and JPLThe troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculationThe asteroid Vesta is the second biggest asteroid in our planetary system. With a size of 330 miles, it orbits the sunlight between the planets Mars and Jupiter.Asteroids have lengthily figured in...
Learn everything about the Venera missions, which were introduced between 1961 and 1983.Credit: NASACredit: NASACredit: BonhamsCredit: Detlev Van RavenswaayCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: NASACredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosOf the 30 space missions to efficiently zip or orbit Venus to date, more than one-third belonged to the previous Soviet Union's Venera collection of robot probes.Released...
In this image, Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere layer corresponds to temperatures, from hot to cold, in this order: white, yellow, bright red and lastly, dark red. The aurorae are the hottest regions and...
NASA Wishes to Intentionally Smash a Spacecraft Right into an Asteroid.If the dinosaurs had a space program, it would undoubtedly have been a bad oneThey did not, but some may claim a room program that cannot protect it people from space-based risks, like colossal asteroids, was not that terrific, after all. According to a...
Credit: Evgeniyqw/Adobe StockA brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts require to do is pay in blood.Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s straight-to-VHS sci-fi horror movie-- as a means to considerably decrease the price...
