AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarElon Musk explains why he launched a car toward Mars — and the reasons are much bigger than his egoverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Dave Mosher• In February, SpaceX launched an electric car toward Mars using its newest rocket, called Falcon Heavy.• Many people, especially scientists, questioned the choice of payload and destination.• SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, recently responded to critics by saying he chose the car as the payload to inspire …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarNASA Believes It Knows How To Make Mars Green AgainForbes - Meriame BerbouchaNASA is thinking about introducing an artificial magnetic field near Mars so that it can develop an atmosphere which would hopefully help Mars support life and liquid surface water in the future. If introduced, Mars could have an atmosphere with half the Earth’s atmospheric pressure within a few …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarDinosaurs would have survived if asteroid hit Earth elsewhere, scientists claimverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ben GuarinoWhen the cosmos shoots pool, it plays for keeps. It sank a six-mile-wide rock in our pocket of the solar system 66 million years ago. The smack of the asteroid against Earth released energy on the order of billions of atomic bombs. Dinosaurs were the cataclysm's most famous victims, joined by sea …
AvatarDr. DriveFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Strongest in a Decadespace.com - By Sarah LewinThis article was updated at 5:44 p.m. EDT to indicate that a coronal mass ejection was observed coming from the site of the solar flare. Early this …
AvatarDr. DriveFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRecord-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earthapnewsarchive.com - MARCIA DUNNCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarJupiter is oldest planet in solar system, ancient meteorites showverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ben GuarinoJupiter formed in a geologic blink. Its rocky core coalesced less than a million years after the beginning of our solar system, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Within another 2 million or 3 million years, that core grew to 50 times the mass of …
AvatarDr. DriveFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWe're In For A Triple Celestial Treat, And Here's How To Enjoy Ithuffingtonpost.com - Lee MoranTurn your eyes to the sky this Friday night and prepare for a series of spectacular celestial sights.A penumbral lunar eclipse, a full moon and a …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarHeisenberg's Astrophysics Prediction Finally Confirmed After 80 YearsForbes - Ethan SiegelDiscovering that our Universe was quantum in nature brought with it a lot of unintuitive consequences. The better you measured a particle's position, the more fundamentally indeterminate its momentum was. The shorter an unstable particle lived, the less well-known its mass fundamentally was. Solid, …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarA new theory challenges everything astronomers thought they knew about how the Moon was createdverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Lindsay DodgsonCurrently, the leading theory of the creation of the Moon is that it formed from a giant impact between a very early Earth and another Mars-sized planet. Yet new research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has put forward a theory that the Moon may have actually formed from a series of …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarThe Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Chris JonesListen to This Article. Back to The Daily Produced by Kelly Prime; edited by Mike Benoist; written by Chris Jones; and narrated by Gabra Zackman In this episode of “The Daily,” Chris Jones gives us a story about the light of other worlds — an escape when the one we’re on feels so dark. Recorded by …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarInside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA's Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facilityverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Jacqueline Detwiler-GeorgeWelcome to NASA JPL, which is behind almost every amazing feat in the history of space travel. August 2012 At 2:00 a.m. in the blond hills of La Cañada Flintridge, California, one house stands lit among the others—an open eye in a sleeping town. Bryn Oh, the woman who lives in the house, helps her …
AvatarDr. DriveAvatarAvatarControversial Thirty Meter Telescope project could be moved to the Canary IslandsWired UK - Amelia HeathmanLegal battles have forced the telescope's board to find a new location for the project The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) could take up residence in …