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It's 50 years since the mission to land humans on the Moon for the first time blasted off.On 16 July 1969, the Apollo 11...
13/03/2023

It's 50 years since the mission to land humans on the Moon for the first time blasted off.

On 16 July 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off and on Saturday 20 July 2019, it will be half a century since the first human actually set foot on the Moon.

But who was it and how long did it take to get there? How much do you know about what happened?

Test your knowledge with our quiz. (If you can't see the quiz below, then click here!)

Greenland shed an extraordinary 600 billion tonnes of ice by the end of summer last year.This melt-driven loss would hav...
09/03/2023

Greenland shed an extraordinary 600 billion tonnes of ice by the end of summer last year.

This melt-driven loss would have raised global sea levels by 2.2mm, say scientists who've just published an analysis of satellite gravity measurements taken over the Arctic.

Of course, when winter set in, some of that mass would have been recovered as it snowed across the ice sheet.

The data comes from the joint US-German space mission known as Grace-FO.

It's actually a pair of satellites that circle the globe, sensing the "lumps and bumps" in Earth's gravity field that correspond to variations in mass.

The distance between Earth and Mars constantly changes because of their different speeds around the Sun, therefore the o...
06/03/2023

The distance between Earth and Mars constantly changes because of their different speeds around the Sun, therefore the optimum launch window for missions is just once every 26 months.

Many are anticipating the touchdown of Nasa's Perseverance rover - the most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to land on a planet - on 18 February.

However, the Red Planet is already being closely observed.

Since its launch in 2016 and its subsequent orbit insertion around Mars, an instrument named the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) has been used to enhance scientists' knowledge of the planet's surface.

The camera is travelling with the European Space Agency's (Esa) Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter, which is studying methane and other rare gases in the Martian atmosphere.

And while this activity is probably not driven by plate tectonics, as on Earth, it could be a "cousin" of that process.T...
03/03/2023

And while this activity is probably not driven by plate tectonics, as on Earth, it could be a "cousin" of that process.

The findings fit an emerging picture of a planet very much alive, in contrast to the traditional view of Venus.

Europe is launching a spacecraft, EnVision, to radar-map and gather spectroscopic measurements of the planet's surface and atmosphere.

And Nasa is sending two craft, Veritas and DaVinci+, to Venus, towards the end of this decade.

"We've identified a previously unrecognised pattern of tectonic deformation on Venus, one that is driven by interior motion just like on Earth," said lead author Paul Byrne, associate professor of planetary science at North Carolina State University.

The seismometer on Nasa's InSight probe will keep listening for Marsquakes even as other systems on the mission have to ...
28/02/2023

The seismometer on Nasa's InSight probe will keep listening for Marsquakes even as other systems on the mission have to shut down due to declining power levels.

The spacecraft has just detected a Magnitude 5 tremor - the biggest event yet in its three years of operation on the Red Planet.

But InSight is now picking up very little energy through its solar panels.

Dust covers the arrays, and winter is approaching.

Lower light levels will signal the end of the mission.

Equipment, such as the probe's robotic arm, is about to be locked in position and turned off.

A team of fossil collectors rescued the fragile print from the shoreline after scientists warned it was at risk of being...
16/02/2023

A team of fossil collectors rescued the fragile print from the shoreline after scientists warned it was at risk of being lost to erosion or landslips.

Ms Woods and Mr Taylor have since donated it to Scarborough Museum and Galleries, which displays other dinosaur fossils at the Rotunda.

"Now that the specimen has been studied, plans are in motion for it to go on public display, to spark the imagination of the next generation of fossil hunters," Dr Lomax said.

Researchers' findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society on Thursday.

"The association of these Nyayanga tools with Paranthropus may reopen the case as to who made the oldest Oldowan tools. ...
15/02/2023

"The association of these Nyayanga tools with Paranthropus may reopen the case as to who made the oldest Oldowan tools. Perhaps not only Homo, but other kinds of hominins were processing food with Oldowan technology," said anthropologist Thomas Plummer of Queens College in New York City, lead author of the research published in the journal Science.

The latest find of the Oldowan tools show that they were a significant upgrade in sophistication compared to earlier crude stone tools dated to as early as 3.3 million years old, before the emergence of the Homo genus, researchers said.

Other hominins existing at the time included the genus Australopithecus, known for the famous even-older fossil "Lucy" which was found in 1974 in northern Ethiopia.

Ministers gathered at the Grand Palais Éphémère (GPE) in Paris are sure therefore to focus their investments in the prog...
08/02/2023

Ministers gathered at the Grand Palais Éphémère (GPE) in Paris are sure therefore to focus their investments in the programmes expected to generate the biggest economic returns.

One area where there will be intense negotiation concerns rockets. Europe's new launcher, Ariane-6, has fallen behind in its scheduled introduction and won't make a debut until the end of next year at the earliest. That has a knock-on cost, for which the ministerial meeting will have to find €200m of cover.

01/02/2023

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