Western Morning News Detonation of A-Bomb – on July 16, 1945 – began a ‘dark new geological age’ of …Western Morning NewsAn international team of scientists has proposed that July 16, 1945 – when the A-bomb first exploded – was…
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Anthropocene: Earth is already in a new epoch, has been since July 16, 1945 … – The Independent
The Independent Anthropocene: Earth is already in a new epoch, has been since July 16, 1945 …The Independent“Like any geological boundary, it is not a perfect marker – levels of global radiation really rose in the early 1950s, as salvoes…
Campaign to reinstate Pluto as a planet – The Australian (blog)
The Australian (blog) Campaign to reinstate Pluto as a planetThe Australian (blog)By May the images will exceed the best resolution images to date of Pluto, from the Hubble Space Telescope, which show a spherical mottled body, but reveal almost nothing…
Scientists Observe Solar System Planets Like Alien Worlds – Full-Time Whistle
Full-Time Whistle Scientists Observe Solar System Planets Like Alien WorldsFull-Time WhistleInstead, we must wait for next-generation telescopes and specialized instruments that can collect the planetary light more efficiently than today’s instruments, separately from the host star. Several of these instruments…
Isotopic Memory of Atmospheric Persistence – Newswise (press release)
Isotopic Memory of Atmospheric PersistenceNewswise (press release)In the new study, a team led by researchers from McGill’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, used mass spectrometry to measure the amounts of different isotopes of sulfur in rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq belt.…
Isotopic Memory of Atmospheric Persistence – Newswise (press release)
Isotopic Memory of Atmospheric PersistenceNewswise (press release)In the new study, a team led by researchers from McGill’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, used mass spectrometry to measure the amounts of different isotopes of sulfur in rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq belt.…
JUICE at Europa – The Planetary Society (blog)
JUICE at EuropaThe Planetary Society (blog)Breaking news: I listened in on a presentation by Jim Green, head of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at this week’s Small Bodies Assessment Group. Dr. Green says that NASA hopes that it will be able…
JUICE at Europa – The Planetary Society (blog)
JUICE at EuropaThe Planetary Society (blog)While the focus of the Europa encounters will be on the high resolution measurements possible only in the minutes around closest approach of each flyby, the spacecraft’s instruments will also make regional observations Europa’s surface…
NASA-designed robot to explore active volcanoes – RedOrbit
RedOrbit NASA-designed robot to explore active volcanoesRedOrbitThis is also likely true on the moon, Mercury, and other planetary bodies, though the exact mechanics of volcanic eruption (past and present) in these places remains unknown. “In the last few years, NASA…
Remembering Don L. Anderson – ScienceBlog.com (blog)
ScienceBlog.com (blog) Remembering Don L. AndersonScienceBlog.com (blog)Anderson’s work helped advance our understanding of the composition, structure, and dynamics of the earth and of earth-like planets. He was a pioneer in the use of seismic anisotropy—variations in the velocities of seismic…