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10/11/2024
ASTRONOMY - Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Image Credit: NASA, USGS, Viking Project
Explanation: The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth's Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, 30 kilometers across, and 1.8 kilometers deep. The origin of the Valles Marineris remains unknown, although a leading hypothesis holds that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled. Several geologic processes have been identified in the canyon. The featured mosaic was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s.
09/11/2024
BIOMES - La mangrove
ASTRONOMY - Neptune at Night
2024 November 9
Image Credit & Copyright: Voyager 2, NASA
Explanation: Ice giant Neptune is faint in Earth's night sky. Some 30 times farther from the Sun than our fair planet, telescopes are needed to catch a glimpse of the dim and distant world. This dramatic view of Neptune's night just isn't possible for telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth though. Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Neptune's day side into view. In fact this night side image with Neptune's slender crescent next to the crescent of its large moon Triton was captured by Voyager 2. Launched from planet Earth in 1977 the Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close fly by of the Solar System's outermost planet in 1989, looking back on Neptune as the robotic spacecraft continued its voyage to interstellar space.
08/11/2024
BIOMES - La toundra sous la menace du réchauffement climatique
ASTRONOMY - Helping Hand in Cassiopeia
2024 November 8
Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Radici
Explanation: Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic scale. Part of a local complex of star-forming interstellar clouds they include LDN 1358, 1357, and 1355 from American astronomer Beverly Lynds' 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae. Presenting a challenging target for astro-imagers, the obscuring dark nebulae are nearly 3,000 light-years away, toward rich starfields in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. At that distance, this deep, telescopic field of view would span about 80 light-years.
07/11/2024
UNE QUESTION (PRE)HISTORIQUE - Alors qui de l'oeuf ou de la poule ?
BIOMES - Les prairies savanes et brousses : des biomes peu gourmands en eau
METEOROLOGIE - En Nouvelle-Zélande un étrange nuage apparaît toujours au même endroit depuis 1896
ASTRONOMIE - La dream team Hubble et James-Webb révèle deux yeux cosmiques injectés de sang qui nous regardent !
ASTRONOMY - Moonquakes Surprisingly Common
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