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☆ Ingenuity helicopter aces 50th flight on Mars
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
During its 50th flight, Ingenuity traveled over 1,057 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds and achieved a new altitude record of 59 feet (18 meters). Since arriving on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February 2021, Ingenuity has flown for more than 89 minutes and 7.1 miles (11.6 kilometers). “When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights,” said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. The rotorcraft has faced numerous challenges since it first detached from the belly of the Perseverance rover more than two years ago. The rover team has a job to do and a schedule to keep.
☆ How the Turkey earthquake tore a 300-kilometre rupture in the Earth’s surface
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The day the Earth moved How the Turkey earthquake tore a 300-kilometre rupture through the Earth’s surfaceThe ground in Turkey and northern Syria was torn, cracked open, and dragged in different directions after the massive 7.8 magnitude quake and its aftershocks on Feb. 6. The map below illustrates how far the surface moved during the quake. Add a description of the graphic for screen readers. Images from Planet Labs show a surface rupture running straight through the middle of a village near Nurdagi, Turkey, with the ground clearly moving a few metres on either side. The surface has moved to the southwest on one side of the rupture and northeast on the other.
☆ Turkey earthquake: Maps show a 300-kilometre rupture in the Earth’s surface
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
The map below illustrates how far the surface moved during the quake, using data from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET). Add a description of the graphic for screen readers. Add a description of the graphic for screen readers. Images from Planet Labs show a surface rupture running straight through the middle of a village near Nurdagi, Turkey, with the ground clearly moving a few metres on either side. The surface has moved to the southwest on one side of the rupture and northeast on the other.
☆ Why we love to anthropomorphize space-faring robots
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
We know Mars rovers are robots, but they feel like friends, or pets. "It's the way the rovers are designed," Abigail Freeman, the deputy project scientist of the Curiosity rover, told Insider. The first selfie NASA's Opportunity Mars rover snapped. Their ability to snap selfies on the Martian surface make them seem self-awareNASA's Curiosity Mars rover created this selfie in front of Mont Mercou. On February 12, 2019, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent the last commands to ask NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars to call home.
☆ The Visions of Octavia Butler
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Lynell George | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +27 min
As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. Mural with a portrait of Octavia Butler and her name, composed of dots of various densities in 3-D space. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. “‘Kindred’ was a story of ordinary people trapped in fantastic circumstances,” Butler wrote in a 1988 notebook. Her point of view was one not traditionally found in science fiction and, simply by writing, she demanded a larger world.
☆ Climate Change Is Real. Markets, Not Governments, Offer the Cure. - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Bret Stephens | Mr. Stephens Is An Opinion Columnist. Mr. Winter Is A Staff Photographer On Assignment In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +32 min
worse-case, highest-carbon-emission scenario.” (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the U.N. body that assesses climate change.) How do we weigh the risks of underreacting to climate change against the risks of overreacting to it? While he’s not an expert on climate change, he has spent decades thinking deeply about every manner of risk. That’s particularly true if climate change is akin to cancer — manageable or curable in its earlier stages, disastrous in its later ones. Maybe, I realized, in assessing my newfound concerns about climate change, my long-held beliefs might provide a solution — look to the market.
☆ SpaceX books another ride for a millionaire around the moon
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming Starship spacecraft. He declined on Wednesday to share any financial information about the upcoming Starship mission. It’s not clear when the first crewed Starship mission will take off, however. But Starship is far bigger than anything that SpaceX — or any other rocket developer — has ever built. It’s expected to have more thrust than both NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which powered the moon landings of the mid-20th century, and the space agency’s new moon rocket, called SLS, or Space Launch System.
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