The anouncement published in Science Mini tremors detected on Mars for first time says that the Mars lander InSight is detecting microseisms on Mars after various vibrations produced by the lander and its interaction with the wind are excluded.
The above linked Wikipedia article says:
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tl;dr: It's a hard problem, so never say never!
What natural mechanisms could lead to the unlikely case of the same rogue asteroid or planet passing through our solar system twice?
I can think of three mechanisms.
1. Stellar and solar-system pinball
Under normal situations an asteroid o...
I've actually mentioned it here a time or two. Basically it is a piece about the long term (100 years or so) predictions of what will happen to Starman.
I was watching the short YouTube video How ‘Apollo 11’ Gives the Moon Landing New Life | Anatomy of a Scene and near the end the narrator says:
My music composer, Matt Morton decided to do a period score, using only instrumentation that was around pre-1969, most notably, he went out and got a...
xkcd 2125 titled "Luna 2" refers to the object shown below. All faces seem to be pentagons. (found in this question.)
Question: What is the name of the polyhedral shape of the Soviet pennant on the Luna 2 spacecraft?
Copy of the Soviet pennant sent on the Luna 2 probe to the moon, at the Ka...
The anouncement published in Science Mini tremors detected on Mars for first time says that the Mars lander InSight is detecting microseisms on Mars after various vibrations produced by the lander and its interaction with the wind are excluded.
The above linked Wikipedia article says:
In sei...
