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13/04/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - Voir l'ADN à l'œil nu grâce à la précipitation en pelote
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le cratère de Serra da Cangalha au Brésil
ASTRONOMY - An Unusual Hole in Mars
2025 April 13
Image Credit: NASA, MRO, HiRISE, JPL, U. Arizona
Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? Actually, there are numerous holes pictured in this Swiss cheese-like landscape, with all-but-one of them showing a dusty, dark, Martian terrain beneath evaporating, light, carbon dioxide ice. The most unusual hole is on the upper right, spans about 100 meters, and seems to punch through to a lower level. Why this hole exists and why it is surrounded by a circular crater remains a topic of speculation, although a leading hypothesis is that it was created by a meteor impact. Holes such as this are of particular interest because they might be portals to lower levels that extend into expansive underground caves. If so, these naturally occurring tunnels are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life. These pits are therefore also prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.
12/04/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le mont Saint Helens après éruption
ASTRONOMY - Moon Near the Edge
2025 April 12
Image Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy
Explanation: Most of us watch the Moon at night. But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon, though in bright daytime skies the lunar disk looks pale and can be a little harder to see. Of course in daytime skies the Moon also appears to cycle through its phases, shining by reflected sunlight as it orbits our fair planet. For daytime moonwatchers, the Moon is probably easier to spot when the visible sunlit portion of the lunar disk is large and waxing following first quarter or waning approaching its third quarter phase. And though it might look unusual, a daytime moon is often seen even in urban skies. Captured here in a telephoto snapshot taken on March 12, a waxing daytime Moon is aligned near the edge of a popular observation deck that overlooks New York City's borough of Manahattan.
11/04/2025
ASTRONOMIE - À l’œil nu : Mars s’aligne avec Castor et Pollux les 10 et 11 avril 2025
ANIMAUX - Un groupe de macaques bonnet
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Les Andes vues depuis l'espace
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - Le code génétique de l'ADN et ses nucléotides
ASTRONOMY - The ISS Meets Venus
2025 April 11
Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi
Explanation: Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent Venus shining in clear daytime skies from Shoreline, Washington, USA at 11:57AM Pacific Time. It also caught the International Space Station in this single video frame. In close conjunction with the bright planet, the faint outline of the orbital outpost seen at a range of about 400 kilometers appears to be similar in size to the slender planetary crescent. Of course the ISS is much smaller than Venus. Now appearing as planet Earth's brilliant morning star and climbing above the eastern horizon in predawn skies, inner planet Venus was nearly 45 million kilometers from Shoreline.
SANTé/MEDECINE - Procédé révolutionnaire dans la lutte contre le cancer - 2/6 : Une découverte qui change tout
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2022 September 26 All the Water on Planet Earth Illustration Credit: Jack Cook, Adam Nieman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ; Data ...
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La majorité des grêlons qui tombent sous les orages et les averses ne pèsent que quelques grammes. Mais il y a quelques années, c'est un...