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Researchers modelling the long-term effects of engineered aerosol warming on Mars found that every 20 degrees of global warming increased atmospheric water vapour tenfold in their simulation. The resulting clouds warmed low-latitude nights by up to 10 degrees but cooled daytime temperatures across the winter midlatitudes by as much as 40 degrees—an unintended consequence omitted from earlier dry-atmosphere models.
17+ hour ago (1058+ words) A water-cycle simulation of aerosol-warmed Mars found tenfold vapour increases per 20 kelvin, with clouds warming nights, cooling winter days and preserving effects after shut-off. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit A proposed aerosol intervention…...
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
Opportunity’s solar panels were mysteriously getting cleaner long before the rover ever saw the suspected culprit: it did not photograph its first Martian dust devil until six and a half years after landing.
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (1267+ words) Opportunity’s changing power output recorded repeated wind-cleaning events years before its camera caught a dust devil. The six-and-a-half-year gap reveals the difference between detecting an effect and identifying its cause. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 10, 2026 · How…...
Olympus Mons grew so massive that parts of its lower flanks catastrophically collapsed, sending broken rock sliding hundreds of kilometres across the Martian plains—possibly lubricated when hot lava melted buried ice.
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (718+ words) Orbital evidence links Olympus Mons's aureole to immense flank failures. Water or ice may explain the long runout, but lava-driven melting remains one proposed mechanism....
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert — Parliament had been told on 29 July that the programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
5+ day, 55+ min ago (611+ words) Black Arrow launched Prospero after Parliament had been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
In 1965, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory launched LES-1, which stopped transmitting two years later — but in 2012 amateurs heard it again at 237 MHz, and its builders now record the old satellite as it passes overhead in sunlight, using a rooftop antenna.
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (968+ words) After decades of silence, LES-1 was heard again in 2012. Lincoln Laboratory now records its sunlight-powered radio tone from a rooftop antenna. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit LES-1 stopped transmitting after two years of…...
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (980+ words) Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of the larger planet....
By the age of eight, a girl in northeastern Brazil was working through sky-survey images on two computer screens and had logged 18 preliminary asteroid detections; if confirmed, they would make her younger than Luigi Sannino, who was 18 when he set the r
1+ week, 2+ day ago (592+ words) A Brazilian girl's methodical scan of deep-space data threatens to upend a record that's stood for a quarter century, raising questions about who gets access to the tools of discovery. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Mal James Published September…...
Hollywood exaggerates Martian storms in a specific and measurable way: because Mars’s atmosphere is roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s, a 60-mph gust would push an astronaut about as hard as a gentle 6-to-8-mph breeze on Earth.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1221+ words) Wind loading depends on air density and speed squared. In Mars's thin surface atmosphere, a 60 mph gust exerts roughly the same push as a 6-to-8 mph Earth breeze, while dust remains a serious hazard to power and machinery....