Glacier Melt Exceeds All Scientific Expectations: Research was too Optimistic
Greenland has lost about 20 billion tons of ice, glaciers in the northern Kamchatka have lost 4.9 billion tons of ice, and the Arctic is getting greener.
Rockets: Week of 5 September 2022
Only a couple of rockets launched in the past week, including two Chinese rockets and an Ariane 5 carrying a satellite for Eutelsat. Plus a DART update.
‘Diamond Rain’ Experiments Involve Plastic and Lasers
Using a high-powered laser and polyethylene terephthalate plastic, researches created shock waves that led to the formation of nanodiamonds.
Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Found
An international team of scientists recently announced the discovery of two new exoplanets, one of which is a potentially habitable super-Earth.
Mars Collaboration Observes Patchy Aurorae
Two missions orbiting Mars have recently shared data that led to the detection of patch proton aurorae at the red planet.
SLS Has Not Launched Yet, to Everyone’s Shock
The planned Artemis 1 mission using NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion capsule end up not happening due to propellant loading issues.
Small Rockets, Others Fly During Hiatus
Over the summer, there were thirty orbital launches carrying a total of 507 satellites to orbit, with 89% of those for the Starlink constellation.
JWST Captures Galaxy’s Gas Structure in Eerie New Images
JWST reveals strange and eerie patterns in new infrared images of galaxy M74, galaxy NGC 7496, and Wolf-Rayet star 140.
The Sun Gets More Active; Expect Aurorae
At we approach the 2025 solar maximum, the Sun continues to get more active, sending out coronal mass ejections and causing aurorae.
Dark Matter Found to be Less Clumpy Than Expected
Researchers used galaxy clusters to measure the light from galaxies and see how their masses distorted the cosmic microwave background.
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