Something happened out there. In a surprising development that sounds like it came straight from science fiction, a spacecraft that was believed dead for more than a decade has been sending signals back to Earth. The craft in question is a satellite that was sent up to study the Earth’s magnetosphere, which is the area around a planet dominated by its magnetic field. The IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) spacecraft was launched in March 2000. It orbited, collecting data with its instruments and sending it back, until December 2005, when it went dark. The IMAGE is a giant octagon covered in solar panels, about 7 feet across and the height of a Prius, with long antennas
The last time the Juan de Fuca oceanic plate jolted under the North American plate, unleashing a 9.0 earthquake, was in 1700. Earthquakes are typically measured using the Richter scale, named after the geologist who invented it in the 1930s. The scale is numbered from 0-10, although no magnitude 10
A new report has looked at the different ways an earthquake of epic proportions could wreak havoc in the Northwest of America. Citizens living in the vicinity of the Cascadia Subduction Zone have long been aware a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which has been branded “The Really Big One”, could hit the region
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The luminous haze that obscures our view of the constellations - light pollution -is one of the most prevalent forms of environmental alteration. Its impact is felt across a swath of life from the migration of sea turtles to the circadian rhythm of humans.
A new atlas of light pollution created by an international team of scientists reveals just how pervasive this artificial glow is. The atlas shows that more than 80% of the world and more than 99% of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. The Milky Way is hidden from more than one-third of humanity, including 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans.
Check out this interactive map and read more here.
An important reminder to get out and do some stargazing. -Emily
What’s up for August? How to spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the
and the annual Perseid meteor shower.
Here are some highlights in this month’s nighttime skies as picked by astronomer Jane Houston Jones from our Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Spot Venus, Mercury and Jupiter and the moon low on the western horizon about 45 minutes after sunset from August 4 through 7. On August 11, look in the south-southwest sky for a second planetary dance as Mars and Saturn are high and easy to see and they are joined by the moon.
The famous and reliably active Perseid meteor shower peaks in the morning hours of August 12. The moon, which paired up so nicely with Mars and Saturn on the 11, is bright enough to blot out some of the meteors, but lucky for you it sets about 1 a.m. on the morning of the 12, just at the peak time for the best Perseid viewing.
But wait, there are more planets, dwarf planets and an asteroid visible this month! Uranus and Neptune and dwarf planet Ceres are visible before dawn in the southern sky. Uranus is visible through binoculars but Neptune and Ceres require a telescope.
Watch the full August “What’s Up” video for more:
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This image was captured from a distance of 476,000 miles. Tomorrow’s image will be 10 times sharper than this, says NASA, and akin to seeing the lakes in Central Park and the piers on the Hudson.
Here’s Our First Close-Up Photo Of Pluto’s Surface
NASA’s New Horizons probe launched in 2006 and has traveled 3 billion miles in the past nine years. It’s not stopping at Pluto, but it flew past the dwarf planet at 7.49 a.m. ET Tuesday.
At its closest approach, the spacecraft will have been just 12,500 kilometers (about 7,750 miles) from the surface, traveling at 14 kilometers per second (31,000 miles per hour). This is the first time we’ve come this close to Pluto. [x]
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