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Space News: NASA rocket takes first multi-point look inside radio-disrupting clouds
1+ week, 1+ day ago (474+ words) High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and…...
Mercury is shrinking much more than scientists realized
19+ hour, 37+ min ago (390+ words) The solar system's smallest planet has suffered significant shrinkage, drawing up 30 percent more than scientists even previously estimated. A new study reveals Mercury has lost up to 14.5 miles of its diameter since birth. That might not seem like much until…...
This Tiny Planet Closest to the Sun Lost Nearly 12 Miles in Diameter, and Scientists Finally Know Why
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (492+ words) Mercury isn't the planet scientists thought it was. New research digging into old NASA data has uncovered something that had been hiding in plain sight for years, a clue about the planet's past that could change everything we thought we…...
The First Moon Base Will Be Built by Cargo Missions Before Astronauts Arrive — Curiosmos
16+ hour, 44+ min ago (669+ words) The first permanent foothold on the Moon will not begin with a crew stepping out of a lander and planting a flag beside a finished habitat. It will begin with cargo arriving early, systems being tested in a place that…...
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing
23+ hour, 47+ min ago (32+ words) Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It's spherical, weighs just unde......
The Soviet Union Soft-Landed 8 Venera Spacecraft on the Surface of Venus Between 1970 and 1982, in 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth's Atmospheric Pressure. The United States Has Never Landed on Venus Once.
17+ hour, 52+ min ago (479+ words) America won the Moon, owns Mars, and has flown past everything else. On Venus it finished a distant second to a country that stopped existing in 1991....
Mercury May Have Shrunk Up to 23 Kilometers
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (112+ words) Want your own hosted, self-optimizing clone of this — or any OpenServe site? Open Development for enterprise → © OpenServe Holdings LLC Where do you stand? What each side asserts, disputes — or leaves out entirely. Whose framing of this story rings truest to…...
Mercury shrinking more than scientists previously thought
18+ hour, 59+ min ago (569+ words) Mercury is shrinking by up to 30% more than previously thought, according to new research. The rough, impact-debris-covered surface of the nearest planet to the Sun has buried the signs of a shrinking world, say scientists, leading them to underestimate contractions....
Scientists Drastically Underestimated How Much Mercury Has Shrunk - AOL
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (401+ words) Mercury, the littlest planet in our solar system (though Pluto apologists may beg to differ), is getting smaller by the day. In fact, it’s been slowly shriveling up ever since it formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. A new analysis of…...