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☆ The New Space Race Is Causing New Pollution Problems
  + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Shannon Hall | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The high-altitude chase started over Cape Canaveral on Feb. 17, 2023, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched. Thomas Parent, a NASA research pilot, was flying a WB-57 jet when the rocket ascended past the right wing — leaving him mesmerized before he hit the throttle to accelerate. For roughly an hour, Mr. Parent dove in and out of the plume in the rocket’s wake while Tony Casey, the sensor equipment operator aboard the jet, monitored its 17 scientific instruments. Researchers hoped to use the data to prove they could catch a rocket’s plume and eventually characterize the environmental effects of a space launch.
Persons: Thomas Parent, Tony Casey Organizations: Cape Canaveral, SpaceX, NASA Locations: Cape
☆ When Is Aphelion 2023 and What It Means
  + stars: | 2018-07-05 | by ( Shannon Hall | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This story has been updated to reflect the date of 2023’s aphelion. On Thursday at 5:06 p.m. Eastern time, Earth will swing toward the outermost point in its orbit, known as aphelion. You, me and everyone on the planet will be three million miles farther from the sun than when we are closest to it. In fact, the extra distance causes the amount of received sunlight to drop by 7 percent compared to January. It would take a much greater swing, so that the amount of received sunlight dropped significantly, in order to notice the difference.
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