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Planting a flag on the moon

Posted by EarthSky Voices in Human World | Space | 19 hours ago

With virtually no atmosphere on the moon – and, therefore, no wind – flags that fly freely on Earth would hang like limp cloth in the lunar environment. So Apollo 11 engineers had to rethink flagpole design entirely.

Video: Moon hoax not

Posted by Deborah Byrd in Human World | Space | 19 hours ago

Don’t believe the moon landings were real? Go ahead. Watch this.

5 moon-landing innovations that changed life on Earth

Posted by EarthSky Voices in Human World | Space | 19 hours ago

The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the moon.

What will Earth’s next supercontinent look like?

Posted by EarthSky Voices in Earth | 2 days ago

Here are 4 different scenarios of what planet Earth might look like when the next supercontinent forms.

Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 2 days ago

The ice age hyenas may have hunted caribou and horses, or scavenged carcasses of mammoths on a cold treeless tundra, says a study of 2 fossil teeth.

Enceladus’ ocean right age to support life

Posted by Paul Scott Anderson in Space | 3 days ago

The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems possibly habitable in many ways. Now a new study has determined it’s the right age to support life, too.

Join space scientists marking Apollo anniversary

Posted by EarthSky in Human World | Space | 3 days ago

Join online as leading space scientists discuss the legacy of Apollo 11 during the mission’s 50th anniversary this week.

Record wettest 12 months for US, again

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 4 days ago

Wet conditions from July 2018 through June 2019 resulted in a new 12-month precipitation record in the US

The eclipse that marked the start of the Iroquois Confederacy

Posted by Bruce McClure in Human World | Space | 5 days ago

The total solar eclipse of August 22, 1142, may have coincided with the birth of the Iroquois Confederacy, oldest democracy in North America and possibly on Earth.

Eclipses make animals do strange things

Posted by EarthSky Voices in Earth | 5 days ago

How do solar and lunar eclipses influence animal behavior? While the human world gathers to see tonight’s lunar eclipse, what’s the rest of nature doing?

What’s a Blood Moon?

Posted by Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd in Astronomy Essentials | Human World | 5 days ago

In some circles of Christian prophecy, a Blood Moon is a member of a special kind of lunar tetrad : four total lunar eclipses in a row, each separated by six lunar months. By this definition, the last Blood Moon occurred on September 28, 2015.

Dragonfly aims for Saturn’s moon Titan

Posted by Paul Scott Anderson in Human World | Space | 5 days ago

Scheduled for launch in 2026, the Dragonfly mission will look for clues to the origins of life, and possibly even evidence of life itself, on Saturn’s alien yet remarkably Earth-like moon Titan.

Big earthquakes today in Australia and Indonesia

Posted by Deborah Byrd in Earth | 6 days ago

The 2 strong earthquakes of July 14, 2019 – the first a 6.6-magnitude off the western coast of Australia and the second a 7.3-magnitude in Indonesia – happened on or near the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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Space

Enceladus' ocean right age to support life

Planting a flag on the moon

Video: Moon hoax not

5 moon-landing innovations that changed life on Earth

Enceladus' ocean right age to support life

Join space scientists marking Apollo anniversary

The eclipse that marked the start of the Iroquois Confederacy

Dragonfly aims for Saturn's moon Titan

Today in 2015: New Horizons at Pluto

Astro Essentials

What's a Blood Moon?

What's a Blood Moon?

Uranus, Neptune, Pluto: A longer view

We go between the sun and Pluto on July 14

Scorpius? Here’s your constellation

Earth

Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic

What will Earth’s next supercontinent look like?

Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic

Record wettest 12 months for US, again

Eclipses make animals do strange things

Big earthquakes today in Australia and Indonesia

Himalayan glaciers melting double fast since 2000

Rare lava lake seen from space

Super rare video of giant squid in US waters

Human World

Join space scientists marking Apollo anniversary

Planting a flag on the moon

Video: Moon hoax not

5 moon-landing innovations that changed life on Earth

Join space scientists marking Apollo anniversary

Videos

Dragonfly aims for Saturn's moon Titan

Video: Moon hoax not

Dragonfly aims for Saturn's moon Titan

Himalayan glaciers melting double fast since 2000

Super rare video of giant squid in US waters

ESA will head for the double asteroid, too

Video: Watching solstices and equinoxes from space

Mars Helicopter passes key tests

Waterfall illusion: Still objects seem to move