Month: July 2019
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FETTUCCINE: MARTIAN SIGN OF LIFE
Noodle-like rock formations on Mars are said to have been formed by an ancient bacterium found on rock formations on Earth and on harsh surroundings that are similar to areas on Mars. The formations look like fettuccine pasta (in cable formation) and capellini pasta (when moving downstream) so the rover could examine it easily for…
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EARTH MAY BE THREATENED BY RARE SUPERFLARES
Superflares have appeared in the Milky Way’s edges in recent years. These happen when stars let out enormous bursts of energy from lightyears away. Scientists had no idea why these stars behave this way, until recently. They only assumed that the explosions only happened to the active and young stars. A new study has shown…
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UNDER THE LARGEST CRATER OF THE MOON
A huge, enigmatic lump of solid material was found under the moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin. This may have metal from the body of an asteroid that collided into the moon and created the crater. The said crater is oval with a width of about 2,000 kilometers, comparable to the distance between Washington, D.C., and…
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Organic-rich Volcanoes of Pluto
In the distant icy dwarf planet of Pluto, scientists have discovered red ice believed to have been spewed from the volcanoes on its surface. According to the research team from NASA, the detected traces of water may contain organic-rich ammonia. A NASA representative states of the physical characteristics of ammonia, “if you find it at…