Both probes still carry Golden Records containing pictures, messages and sounds from Earth because the spacecraft could outlast human civilization by billions of years. Their five-year lifespans have stretched to 41 years, making Voyager 2 NASA's longest running mission. It was this instrument that observed a "steep decline" in solar wind particle speeds on November 5, this being "the most com... [Full Article...]
Voyager 1 est sortie de l'héliosphère en août 2012. Voyager 2 franchit donc cette frontière six ans après Voyager 1, ce qui est conforme aux estimations de la NASA , car la sphère d'influence de cette région se déplace pendant le cycle d'activité de 11 ans du Soleil. [Full Article...]
NASA says the best time to watch is after 10:30 p.m. overnight December 13 and December 14. Stargazers are encouraged to head over to the darkest spots outside and look up for a show of lights streaming across the sky. As per NASA meteor expert, Bill Cooke, there can be as many as 100 meteors per hour shooting across the sky. Defined as the "best and most reliable" meteor shower of the year by ... [Full Article...]
Between 60 and 120 meteors per hour shoot across the sky every year in the shower, and this year it's set to get the closest its been to earth in the last 50 years, astronomy experts have said. The best thing about meteor showers is they require no equipment to spot. According to unconfirmed reports, the Geminid meteor shower is likely to be visible Rajasthan's Alwar, around Himalayas belt. [Full Article...]
Remarkably, corals that bleached and survived 2016 were more resistant in 2017 to a recurrence of hot conditions. But a year later, it took a longer time for the recurrent warmer water to bleach coral to the same extent. "That surprised us, because if the southern corals had behaved the same way in year two as in year one, we should have seen 20 or 30 percent of them bleach, and they didn't", sa... [Full Article...]
Le mode multijoueur Typhon Hunter: un jeu de cache-cache en multijoueur où la tension règne. Ces derniers peuvent, comme dans le titre de base, copier presque n'importe quel objet afin de surprendre Morgan. Il ne sera décliné en VR qu'en tout début 2019 sur PC et PSVR. Cependant, le prix de ce DLC pour les joueurs ne disposant que du jeu dans sa version standard n'est pas encore connu. [Full Article...]
Company CEO Alan Musk wrote on Twitter , "The grid in hydraulic pump stops, that's why the Falcon could only land in the sea". The rocket was directed away from the coastline and out to the Atlantic Ocean, where it managed to recover from its spin just before landing safely in the water. [Full Article...]
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signs an order withdrawing an Obama era emissions standards policy, at the EPA Headquarters in Washington. The Trump administration will reverse an Obama-era coal emissions rule as part of its effort to loosen restrictions on the coal industry, just days after a USA government report warned that aggressive action is needed to curb greenhouse gases and ea... [Full Article...]
Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts found that glaciers on the world's second-largest island are melting more than 30 percent faster than during the mid-1900s. The cores of the drilling contained records of past melts, which allowed the scientists to extend their records back to the 17th century. The central west Greenland cores show a 575 per cent ... [Full Article...]
Google donne les exemples des mots " strong " ou " doctor " avec un biais masculin, et " nurse " ou " beautiful " avec un biais féminin. Le féminin n'est plus systématiquement oublié par le robot traducteur de Google. Cet ajout est pour l'instant disponible pour traduire un seul mot de l'anglais au français, italien, portugais ou espagnol, et pour traduire plusieurs mots ou phrases du tu... [Full Article...]
Although it is nearly without a doubt too early to actually know if the booster is in good enough condition to ever fly again, Musk seemed to directly suggest that it could eventually relaunch in support of an "internal SpaceX mission", basically either Starlink or tech development. [Full Article...]
En outre, les développeurs pourront facilement contacter des YouTubeurs ou créateurs sur Twitch pour qu'ils postent des vidéos sur leurs jeux. Rappelons aussi que Tencent , le géant chinois, a des parts dans Epic , bien que le magasin en ligne ne sera pas disponible en Chine visiblement (et d'autres pays exotiques comme la Corée du Nord, entre autres nations, où le Département d'Etat US refuse... [Full Article...]
For more on this and other news around the world we turn to our Ro Aram... A major step toward meeting goals set by the Paris Agreement would be to reduce emissions from transport, according to the report's lead researcher Corinne Le Quéré , professor of climate change science and policy at the UK's University of East Anglia. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile, the presidents of at-risk states such as Fiji, Nigeria and Nepal are expected at COP24 talks, which aim to flesh out the promises agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord. conference Monday for insisting that many in the United States remain committed to the agreement. She cited a recent expert report warning of the consequences of letting average global temperatures rise beyond 1... [Full Article...]
After the launch, the Falcon 9's first-stage booster returned to earth as planned, landing on a ship off the coast of southern California , according to a live video of the flight. SpaceX's customer for the SSO-A mission, Spaceflight, aims to be a sort of Uber service for space. This mission will be the mission with more satellites ever carried to orbit by SpaceX and by a US Launch Vehicle. [Full Article...]
NASA announced Thursday that it had selected nine companies that will compete for billions of dollars in contracts to take small payloads for the agency to the surface of the moon . One of the nine companies will be tasked with delivering science and technology payloads to the surface of the Moon for NASA. NASA has revealed the names of nine U.S. [Full Article...]
Draper is another long-time space contractor in the CLPS program. It was revealed last week that NASA will be conducting an investigation into the company culture of SpaceX after concerns over Elon Musk's behavior began to grow within NASA's upper management. [Full Article...]
Le 26 mai 2010, Apple détrônait Microsoft en devenant la plus grosse entreprise technologique aux États-Unis. Il est de coutume de saluer les bonnes performances financières d'Apple , ou au contraire de pointer du doigt ses baisses de régime. [Full Article...]
Now identified only as Brooke and Gene, the pair went viral for the move, which consisted of hand slaps, air punches, forearm bashes, shimmies, fist pumps, and finally, culminating in a high-five. "(Goodwin) did it better than we did it", Gene said. According to CNN , the two NASA engineers started planning the handshake approximately six weeks ago, studying every detail of Goodwin's and Bourne... [Full Article...]
Brenda Ekwurzel, one of the report's authors, said there's ample evidence of rising costs from recent western wildfires , droughts and hurricanes . Disasters will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars in lost economic activity and damage the health of millions, according to the US National Climate Change Assessment published on Friday. [Full Article...]