Category: science
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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts and Jillian Ambrose at The Guardian reporting on this report from Oxfam: Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launching Today
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally launching today, at 7:20 AM Eastern Standard Time or 12:20 UTC. 30 years in the making, NASA has a video feed that starts very soon of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 rocket that will carry the new telescope to space where it’ll take a good trip to…
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Watch the Perseverance Rover’s Landing Process From Its Perspective & Hear the Surface of Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has several cameras that record high resolution footage to give us these never before seen views of our neighbor Mars and the landing process it takes to get there. NASA and JPL also released this amazing audio giving us an opportunity to hear what standing on Mars sounds like with the…
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NASA/JPL’s Perseverance Rover Safely Landed on Mars Today
NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory put out a statement after the successful landing: The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
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Perseverance Lands on Mars Today
Ars has a guide to what’s going on with the new exploring metal guy today, the automated navigation system that will guide the rover to a safe landing, and a little bit about the first-of-it’s kind drone that will launch from Perseverance. You can tune in to watch the status of the mission via NASA…