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Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.

This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Snow algae thrives in extreme conditions

    Snow algae thrives in extreme conditions

    On tall ice structures high in the Chilean Andes, researchers found algae growing on snow. They don’t entirely understand how the algae are able to bloom.

    Man standing in field of waist-high pointy snow spikes on side of high mountain.

    These elongated, thin blades of hardened snow or ice are called nieves penitentes. They’re found closely spaced and pointing towards the general direction of the sun. Recently, researchers were surprised to find patches of red ice on the sides of some of the penitentes, which turned out to be a unique snow algae.

    Image via Steven Schmidt/GlacierHub.

    A new study found snow algae on nieves penitentes [Spanish for "penitent-shaped snows”] at high elevations in the Chilean Andes.

    Steven Schmidt is a University of Colorado, Boulder professor, specializing in microbial ecology. He’s one of the paper’s authors. He told GlacierHub.

    The expedition was an epic and very arduous trip to a remote mountain. The original goal was to sample a lake below a remnant glacier high on the mountain, but the lake was frozen solid and the winds were horrendous, so we worked lower on the mountain and carried out the first-ever search for life on nieves penitentes.

    Nieves penitentes form when windblown snow banks build up and melt due to a combination of high radiation, low humidity, and dry winds. The snow melts into the pinnacle-shape which earned penitentes their name: they are said to resemble monks in white robes paying penance. Penitentes are important to the dry, high-altitude areas where they’re found, because they can be a periodic source of meltwater for the rocky ground.

    Blade-shaped snow spikes with warmly dressed scientist sitting nearby.

    Nieves penitentes at the research site.

    Image via Steven Schmidt/GlacierHub.

    Schmidt described how the researchers were surprised to find patches of red ice on the sides of some of the penitentes. He told GlacierHub:

    We took samples from these patches and later found that they contained some unique snow algae and a thriving community of other microbes.

    The study was published the peer-reviewed journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research on June 12, 2019.

    Matthew Davey, a plant and algal physiologist at Cambridge University, who was not involved in the study, told GlacierHub:

    Snow algae are microscopic plant-like organisms that are able to live on and within the snowpack.

    Snow algae is also known as watermelon snow because of the color it creates on the surface of snow and ice. The snow’s watermelon hue is caused by an abundance of natural reddish pigments called carotenoids which also shield the algae from ultraviolet light, drought, and cold, contributing to their ability to survive in extreme environments.

    Closeup of snow spike with blotchy reddish patch on it.

    Red snow algae on nieves penitentes.

    Image via Steven Schmidt/GlacierHub.

    Researchers don’t entirely understand how the algae bloom in high density given the low temperatures and high light levels they live with. Davey explained:

    There is evidence that they can be deposited by wind, they could already be in the rock surface from previous years or they could be brought by animals. Once the snow has melted slightly, so there is liquid water, the algae can reproduce and bloom within days or weeks. During this time they can start green, then turn red, or stay green or stay red – it depends on the algal species.

    The samples of snow algae were collected from penitentes on the Chilean side of Volcán Llullaillaco. It is the second tallest active volcano in the world after Ojos del Salado and it sits on Chile’s border with Argentina. The penitentes were between 1-1.5 meters tall (about 39 to 60 inches tall). The presence of snow algae on penitentes is notable because the algae can change the albedo of ice and increase melting rates.

    Very pointy ice cones on barren brown mountainside, cobalt blue sky.

    Image via Steven Schmidt/GlacierHub.

    The study describes the environment that the samples were collected in as “perhaps the best earthly analog for surface and near-surface soils on Mars,” opening the door for implications in astrobiological research. The high elevation where the snow algae was found is responsible for the conditions that create an almost extraterrestrial environment; there are very high levels of ultraviolet radiation, intense daily freeze-thaw cycles, and one of the driest climates on the planet.

    Penitente-like structures were recently found on Pluto and possibly on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. In the context of these discoveries, Schmidt said that “penitentes and the harsh environment that surrounds them provide a new terrestrial analog for astrobiological studies of life beyond Earth.” The finding in the new study that “penitentes are oases of life in the otherwise barren expanses” pushes the boundaries of the current understanding of the cold-dry limits of life.

    Stippled-looking planetary surface.

    The surface of Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa region, where penitentes were also found.

    Image via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI.

    Lead author Lara Vimercati reflected on the study’s broader implications. She said:

    Our study shows how no matter how challenging the environmental conditions, life finds a way when there is availability of liquid water.

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    The weird, repeating signals from deep space just tripled

    Fast radio bursts are getting more attention from scientists, who can now detect more of them.

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    We're picking up more signals from deep space.

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    Scientists suddenly have a whole lot more data on one of the strangest and most recent mysteries in the cosmos, so-called fast radio bursts. First discovered in 2007, these fleeting blasts of radio waves originate thousands, millions or even billions of light-years from Earth. 

    FRBs have influenced the design of new radio telescopes like the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). And now a team of Canadian and American researchers using CHIME has reported a major new set of FRB detections that could fine-tune our understanding of where these enigmatic signals come from and what produces them. 

    The group says it's discovered eight new bursts that repeat.

    Watch this: Repeating radio signals coming from space

    "Repeating FRBs are highly valuable from an observational perspective since their repeating nature make them better candidates for localizing their host galaxies and multi-wavelength follow-up observations that can help determine if FRBs emit at wavelengths other than radio," said Ryan McKinven, one of the researchers who is based at the University of Toronto and co-author of a paper about the FRBs.

    Those follow-up observations could provide details about the origins of the strange bursts, he added. A larger sample size of repeating FRBs to study could also help scientists answer one of the obvious questions about non-repeating FRBs: Could they actually be repeating FRBs that just haven't been recorded as repeating yet?

    While dozens of FRBs have been detected and cataloged over the past 12 years, few of those deep space signals had been known to repeat themselves. Two have been documented so far in published, peer-reviewed journals. Two others -- one via a Russian radio telescope, the other via Australia -- have been reported but not yet reviewed. 

    So with this batch of bursts, the number of reported repeaters has tripled -- from four to 12. 

    The team laid out its findings in a draft paper that's been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal and was posted this month on the Arxiv pre-print site

    "Discovering different types of FRBs at an unexpected rate, we will soon open new windows into understanding the cosmological origin of these high-energy astrophysical phenomena," said co-author Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. 

    In addition to the sheer number of repeating FRBs discovered in one haul, one of the newfound repeaters appears to be much closer to Earth than the handful of fast radio bursts that have been traced back to a source galaxy. So far, traceable FRBs seem to come from sources on the other side of the universe -- we're talking billions of light-years away.

    However, in the new paper, the authors suggest that one of the repeating FRBs could actually originate near the edge of our own Milky Way galaxy but caution that more study is needed to better localize the signal. 

    "Knowing that we are observing every patch of sky visible to CHIME once every day, it was only a matter of time before we detected a very nearby source," co-author Pragya Chawla of McGill University said.

    Studying relatively nearby FRBs will hopefully allow scientists to get a better idea of just what the heck is throwing off these signals, which could be anything from far-fetched notions like alien starships to the less fantastic but more powerful sources, like neutron stars.

    26-08-2019 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mystery sunken 3,000BC temple dubbed ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ appears after drought dries up reservoir

    Mystery sunken 3,000BC temple dubbed ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ appears after drought dries up reservoir

    AN ANCIENT sunken temple in Spain that dates back 5,000 years has been revealed thanks to a drought.

    Dubbed the 'Spanish Stonehenge', this collection of 144 standing stones may have once been a site of ritual worship.

     The mysterious site has been revealed thanks to a drought

    The mysterious site has been revealed thanks to a drought
    Credit: Rubén Ortega Martín/Raíces de Peralêda

    Some of the stones stand two metres high, and are engraved with serpents.

    The giant megaliths are arranged in circles but – just like Stonehenge – no one knows who put them there, and why.

    The lost site was submerged back in 1963, after the building of a dam created a reservoir in the area.

    But warm weather and large amounts of water extraction saw the stones re-emerge from the deep.

     Some of the stones stand up to two metres tall

    Some of the stones stand up to two metres tall

    Credit: Rubén Ortega Martín/Raíces de Peralêda

     The 'Spanish Stonehenge' has been lost for 60 years, and could date back to 3,000 BC

    The 'Spanish Stonehenge' has been lost for 60 years, and could date back to 3,000 BC
    Credit: Rubén Ortega Martín/Raíces de Peralêda

    "We grew up hearing about the legend of the treasure hidden beneath the lake and now we finally get to view them," said local official Angel Castaño, speaking to Spain's The Local.

    "There certainly may have been treasures buried beneath the stones once upon a time.

    "But for us now, the treasures are the stones themselves."

    Angel is now leading a "race against time" to preserve the site before the rains come – and submerge the temple again.

    The site is believed to have been created in the second and third millenia BC

    And it's said that it was used as a sun temple on the banks of the River Tagus.

    It was last seen by locals six decades ago, and formed part of local legends.

    "The site would have been created over thousands of years, using granite transported from kilometres away," Angel explained.

    "Like Stonehenge, they formed a sun temple and burial ground.

    "They seemed to have a religious but also economic purpose, being at one of the few points of the river where it was possible to cross.

    "So it was a sort of trading hub."

    Angel and a group of local residents are campaigning to move the stones to a site on dry land.

    Otherwise, the waters will rise again and the stones will be lost.

    "We have had no rain this summer, so the drought but also a policy of extracting water to send to Portugal has combined to lower the water table and reveal the stones," Angel explained.

    "But that can all changed very quickly."

    The site was thought to be condemned to the history books in the 1960s when a Spanish general ordered the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Peraleda de la Mata, near Cáceres in Extremadura

    The site was thought to be condemned to the history books in the 1960s when a Spanish general ordered the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Peraleda de la Mata, near Cáceres in Extremadura

    “If we miss this chance it could be years before they are revealed again.

    "And the stones, which are granite and therefore porous, are already showing signs of erosion and cracking, so if we don't act now it could be too late."

     Experts now hope to preserve the stones – by moving them to dry land using machines

    Experts now hope to preserve the stones – by moving them to dry land using machines

    Credit: Rubén Ortega Martín/Raíces de Peralêda

    What is Stonehenge?

    What you need to know about Britain's most mysterious monument

    • Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire
    • It's a ring of standing stones that measure around 13 feet high and seven feet wide
    • Each stone weighs roughly 25 tons
    • Experts say that the monument was constructed between 3000 and 2000 BC
    • In 1882, it was legally protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
    • And in 1986, the site and surroundings became a UNESCO World Heritage Site
    • Stonehenge itself is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage
    • But the land around Stonehenge is owned by the National Trust
    • Part of what makes Stonehenge so mysterious is that it was produced by a culture with no written records
    • Scientists regularly debate over how and why Stonehenge was built, and what it was used for
    • One theory suggests Stonehenge was a sacred burial site
    • Another proposes that it was used for celestial and astronomical alignments
    • And some think it was an ancient place of healing
    • It used to be believed that it was created as a Druid temple
    • But we now know that Stonehenge predated the Druids by around 2000 years

    The site was reportedly first uncovered by the Ancient Romans.

    However, they weren't rediscovered until German priest and archaeologist Hugo Obermaier visited in the 1920s.

    He excavated the site and reportedly took treasures back to Germany.

    But the stones themselves remained, and disappeared under a reservoir after the building of a dam in 1963.

    "It isn't a difficult thing to move them, we have machinery now to do that," said Angel.

    "Let's just hope that there is the political will to save them while we can."

    Just last month, scientists announced plans to solve the mystery of the "Armenian Stonehenge" – believed to be even older than Stonehenge itself.

    Recent research suggested that the origin of Stonehenge's ancient builders was Turkey.

    And Stonehenge builders may have dragged the rocks into place on sledges greased up with pig fat.

    What do you make of this mysterious site? Let us know in the comments!

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    25-08-2019 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Two Colossal Crystal Pyramids Found in Center of The Bermuda Triangle

     

    Two Colossal Crystal Pyramids Found in Center of The Bermuda Triangle

    With the help of today’s advanced technology, Dr. Meyer Verlag has managed to discover two huge pyramids at the bottom of the ocean.

    These pyramids are extremely large. To give you an idea, they are 3 times larger than the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

    It seems that these pyramids are constructed of a type of crystal that could not be identified.

    They are about 2000 meters deep at the bottom of the ocean. 

    According to researcher Meyer Verlag, these crystal pyramids may be the reason why there are so many mysterious disappearances in that area.

    There is also a theory that these crystal pyramids belong to the ancient city of Atlantis.

    Scientists are optimistic and believe that these pyramids will be investigated very closely in the near future.

    And this can give us some very important answers regarding the mysterious disappearances of the Bermuda triangle or even about the lost city of Atlantis.


    Watch the following videos and see for yourself:

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    25-08-2019 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Archaeologists Who Discovered Giant Skeletons Were Threatened: “You’re playing with fire”

    Archaeologists Who Discovered Giant Skeletons Were Threatened: “You’re playing with fire”

    Since ancient times there are stories and stories about giants. These creatures were so large that the earth shook as they walk.

    There are reports about a very controversial case that took place in Romania in the 1940s.

    At that time, a team of foreign archaeologists discovered a lot of precious artifacts that it seems to have belonged to the Dacian leader, Burebista.

    From the accounts of that time, it seems that one of the archaeologists by the name of Ionita Florea, discovered a huge skull.

    The skull was about five times larger than a human skull. Shortly after the discovery of the giant skull, Ionita Florea was removed from the team, and foreign archaeologists have managed to uncover 80 more giant skeletons.

    These giant skeletons were hidden or destroyed. It is not known exactly where the skeletons are.

    Another very strange case was when the inhabitants of the village of Scaieni in Romania discovered a cemetery full of giant skeletons, when they were trying to plant an apple orchard. 

    In 2009, a television channel began a thorough investigation of the phenomena in the Bucegi Mountains.

    But the entire team of researchers and journalists were threatened by telephone by several people who did not reveal their identity.

    These people wanted at all costs that this investigation be stopped immediately.

    These unknown persons threatened with death the entire team investigating Bucegi Mountains. It seems that the entire operation that investigated the phenomena in the Bucegi mountains was stopped shortly.

    And none of the team members ever wanted to make a statement. Watch the following video:

    Article created by Vlad © Alien Blog

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    25-08-2019 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.When aliens spot Earth, what will they see?

    earth exoplanet

    When aliens spot Earth, what will they see?

    Researchers have made incredible advancements in the detection and study of exoplanets in recent years, spotting literally thousands of new planets and learning tantalizing details about them. Scientists can often tell how warm a planet’s surface is, what its atmosphere is made of, and whether or not it could hold liquid water on its surface.

    All of this information helps in the never-ending search for extraterrestrial life, but what if an intelligent race of aliens were looking at us? Would they be able to see that Earth is habitable, or perhaps even detect the presence of life here from a distance? A new study published in Science attempts to answer that question, and the answer is just as complicated as you’d expect.

    The idea here is that by modeling what a distant civilization would see when looking at Earth, we might get a better idea of what traits to seek out when searching for life-supporting exoplanets of our own. To build this model of a “distant Earth,” the research team collected nearly 10,000 images of Earth snapped from NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and used them to build a two-dimensional picture of the light reflecting off of Earth across multiple wavelengths.

    This, the researchers say, offers a reasonable estimate of what an intelligent civilization might see when observing our planet at a distance of many light-years. The image might look like little more than a colorful blob, but it’s actually a rough outline of Earth’s continents and oceans.

    The scientists suggest that, if we could interpret the light curves of exoplanets in the same way, we may be able to estimate an Earth-like planet’s potential to support life.

    “The analysis of light curves in this work have implications for determining geological features and climate systems on exoplanet,” Siteng Fan, lead author of the work, told Universe Today. “We found that the variation of light curve of Earth is dominated by clouds and land/ocean, which are both crucial to the life on Earth. Therefore, Earth-like exoplanets which harbor this kind of features would be more likely to host life.”

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    25-08-2019 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

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    mars 2020

    Watch NASA scientists pretend the Australian Outback is Mars

    Next year is going to be a pretty big deal for scientists studying Mars, with both NASA’s Mars 2020 mission and the ExoMars rover mission kicking off in the summer. NASA, the European Space Agency, and Russia’s Roscosmos are all doing their best to plan for the landing of their respective rovers, and they recently gathered in a place that looks a lot like Mars to test a few new ideas.

    The international group of researchers met in Australia and set their sights on the dry and dusty conditions of the Australian Outback, which is a decent analog for the Red Planet.

    The challenges of controlling a mobile robot on another planet are many, but the scientists are doing their best to plan ahead, especially when it comes to search for evidence of life on Mars.

    “The Pilbara Outback is home to the oldest confirmed fossilized lifeforms on Earth, called stromatolites,” Ken Farley of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement. “If we can better understand how these fossils came to be here – and the nearby geological signposts that help point the way to them – we’ll be that much more prepared when hunting for signs of life on Mars.”

    Practicing the ability to spot areas where clues about ancient life on Mars may be hiding could come in handy for both teams during their respective missions, but there’s no guarantee that either mission will lead to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

    Both the Mars 2020 mission and the ExoMars rover mission are expected to launch in July of 2020, with NASA’s spacecraft arriving at the Red Planet in February 2021 and the ExoMars rover touching down sometime in March 2021.

    https://bgr.com/ }

    25-08-2019 om 21:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.APOLLO : LE PASSAGE DE LA CEINTURE DE VAN ALLEN
    APOLLO : LE PASSAGE DE LA CEINTURE DE VAN ALLEN

    Bonjour ! Si vous avez besoin d'apprendre à piloter un avion radiocommandé et de progresser en aéromodélisme je vous propose de télécharger le petit livre ici "les 7 secrets pour débuter et bien progresser en aéromodélisme. Vous serez redirigé sur une autre page et pourrez ensuite continuer votre lecture ici.

    Apollo et la ceinture de Van Allen

    Apollo et la ceinture de Van Allen

    Souvent on croise des personnes sceptiques, remettant en cause l’aventure spatiale. Pourtant l’ensemble de l’oeuvre est très facilement sous la main. Mais se plonger dans le travail colossal de cette entreprise demande toujours trop d’effort pour les détraqueurs. Un grand classique est le passage de le Ceinture de Van Halen par les missions Apollo. Beaucoup disent que c’est impossible. Sauf que le sujet a été traité comme jamais et qu’il est encore traité aujourd’hui : un essais complet a été fait sur la futur capsule pour Mars ( on en parle pas sur le petit écran mais des rapports et des photos sortent chaque mois et pendant qu’on se tourne les pouces les mecs on fait une mission complète dans la ceinture de Van Halen, non habité, pour mesurer la réaction et les taux de radiation de cette futur capsule ).  Mais revenant à Apollo, voici toutes les références si l’on vous ressort ce sujet …  Voilà je vous ai tout mis avec les liens qui vont bien comme ça ça clos le débat.

    APOLLO : LA CEINTURE DE VAN ALLEN :

    Voici quelques éléments pour le sujet qui nous intéresse aujourd’hui : comment les missions Apolloont résolu le passage de la ceinture de Van Allen ?

    Rapport de la NASA des doses radiactive des équipages des missions Appolo lors du passage de la ceninture de Van Halen

    Rapport de la NASA des doses radiactive des équipages des missions Appolo lors du passage de la ceinture de Van Allen. (réf 1)

    Les doses radioactives reçues lors des missions lunaires, incluant la traversée de la ceinture de Van Allen et l’exposition aux rayonnements cosmiques, furent relativement faibles. On peut noter dans ce tableau que les astronautes d’Apollo 14 furent les plus exposés avec une dose absorbée au niveau de la peau de 1,14 rads soit 11,4 milligrays.

    Dosimètre personnel de Collins

    Dosimètre personnel de Collins.

    Si l’on considère un facteur de pondération pour la peau de 0,01 et un facteur de pondération pour les rayonnements de 20 (cas le plus pénalisant), les astronautes d’Apollo 14 ont reçu une dose de 2,24 millisieverts.

    TableRayonsX

    Si l’on se réfère à un tableau de radiation classique dans le milieu médical, Apollo 14 a reçu une radiation équivalente à une radio de la poitrine … Par comparaison, la limite annuelle pour les travailleurs du secteur nucléaire en France est de 20 millisieverts. (réf.2)

    SYNTHÈSE TECHNIQUE COMPLÈTE SUR LES RADIATIONS LORS DES MISSIONS APOLLO :

    Cette synthèse nous fait un point sur les radiations lors du passage de la ceinture de Van Allen, sur les radiations relevées dans le module lunaire et lors des sorties ELM.

    Ce document fait également un bref descriptif des instruments utilisés pour faire les mesures. Ciquez sur l’image ci-dessous pour télécharger.

    La ceinture de Van Halen : note technique de la NASA faisant la synthèse des missions Apollo vis à vis des doses de radiation des équipages d'Apollo.

    La ceinture de Van Allen : note technique de Mars 1973 de la NASA faisant la synthèse des missions Apollo vis à vis des doses de radiation des équipages d’Apollo. Cliquez sur l’image pour accéder à la note technique originale. 

    TRAJECTOIRE DU PASSAGE DE LA CEINTURE DE VAN ALLEN POUR APOLLO 11.

    Apollo-11_ceinture de Van Allen

    Une maquette d’ingénierie grandeur nature chez Michoud Assembly Facility pour la contruction de la futur Saturn V. Le recours à la maquette est essentiel sur ces projets R&D. Saturn avait besoin non seulement d’experts en fusées, mais également d’équipes de construction pour construire certains des plus grands bâtiments du monde.

    (NASA).

    Étages de la fusée Saturn V en cours d’assemblage à Michoud Assembly Facility

    (NASA).

    Les ingénieurs d’IBM travaillent à l’intérieur de l’unité Instrument de Saturn V, le «cerveau» responsable du guidage et de la navigation. La structure en anneau s’intègre entre le troisième étage le plus élevé du véhicule et le vaisseau spatial Apollo.
    (NASA).

    LIENS & RÉFÉRENCES SUR APOLLO & LE PASSAGE DE LA CEINTURE DE VAN ALLEN :

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    25-08-2019 om 21:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.For an asteroid, Ryugu has surprisingly little dust on its surface

    For an asteroid, Ryugu has surprisingly little dust on its surface

    The space rock may hide the fine debris inside larger rocks or eject it into space

    Ryugu

    Germany’s MASCOT probe took this photo just before landing on the asteroid Ryugu. The craft found a landscape of crumbly and jagged rocks, but not much actual dust.

    R. JAUMANN ET AL/SCIENCE 2019

    By 

    Ryugu is a neat freak. The surface of the small, near-Earth asteroid is surprisingly free of dust, observations from Germany’s MASCOT lander show.

    The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body around 700 million years ago, has no atmosphere to protect it from interplanetary dust streaming through the solar system (SN: 4/27/19, p. 4). These miniature missiles pummel exposed space rocks at high speed, breaking down their surfaces into thin layers of dust and dirt, such as those found on the moon and the asteroid Vesta.

    But when MASCOT bounced across Ryugu in October 2018 (SN Online: 9/24/18), the lander took high-resolution photos that show no sign of any dust-sized particles, down to a resolution of about 100 micrometers, about the thickness of a sheet of paper, researchers report in the Aug. 23 Science.

    “After a few tens of millions of years, you should have dust on the surface,” says planetary scientist Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center in Berlin. “If it’s not there, you should have some kind of physical, geological processes which clean up these bodies.”

    The MASCOT lander took many pictures as it bounced over Ryugu’s surface, and revealed a rugged terrain largely free of dust.R.
    JAUMANN ET AL/SCIENCE 2019

    Ryugu could hide its dust in larger, porous rocks or deep in its interior, Jaumann and colleagues say. Shaking due to a meteorite impact may shuffle the particles into bigger surface rocks or down through small surface cracks to the asteroid’s center and out of sight, the way small nuts end up at the bottom of a cup of trail mix.

    Or Ryugu could spray dust into space when sunlight heats patches of trapped ice and releases volatile gases. A similar asteroid, Bennu, seems to spew plumes of small rocks into space, according to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (SN: 4/13/19, p. 10). But Jaumann thinks that explanation is less likely for Ryugu. Observations from the Japanese Hayabusa2 craft, which has been orbiting Ryugu since June 2018 and brought MASCOT along, suggest that Ryugu has less water in its minerals than Bennu (SN: 1/19/19, p. 6).

    There’s another possible explanation for Bennu’s dust sprays, says OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He thinks frequent temperature changes on Bennu’s surface as the different sides of the asteroid rotate in and out of sunlight could make the asteroid’s larger rocks fracture like a snapped cracker, spraying crumbs into space.

    If something similar happens on Ryugu, “then Ryugu should also be ejecting particles,” he says. Hayabusa2 may just not be in the right position to see the sprays. “It would be very cool if we saw it.”

    But snapping rocks might create more dust, not less, he notes. An answer to the mystery may not come until after Hayabusa2 returns to Earth with samples of Ryugu’s surface and subsurface in late 2020 (SN: 8/17/19, p. 14).

    https://www.sciencenews.org/ }

    25-08-2019 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Astronomers Watch a Black Hole Swallow a Neutron Star for the First Time

    If you’re looking for something that deserves to be blamed for all of the bad news lately, scientists have for the first time ever witnessed a black hole consuming a neutron star with a satisfied belch and a lip-smacking smile. OK, they couldn’t quite see those last two and it happened 900 million years ago, but it’s definitive proof of a long-held theory and that means it could happen again … and again and again. Is this how it will all end? Did it really cause ripples in space and time? Is the grass greener on the other side of the black hole?

    “This is a huge milestone—if it stands up.”

    The “milestone” astrophysicist Patrick Brady, spokesperson for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), is referring to in the announcement in Science is the discovery of gravitational waves (so the answer to the “ripples in time and space” question is ‘yes’) which have been traced to the collision of a black hole and a neutron star 900 million light-years away – a collision which left only the black hole standing. The discovery was made by LIGO – which gets credit for the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 – and Virgo, a gravitational wave detector near Pisa, Italy, and involved close to 1700 scientists between the two organizations.

    Aerial view of the LIGO Hanford Observatory.

    “We’ve never detected a neutron star and a black hole together. If it turns out to be right, then we’ve confirmed a new type of star system. It’s that fundamental.”

    Ryan Foley, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz, told Vice that the discovery last week of a gravitational wave called S190814bvset off a wave of excitement and the search for its source, the so-called “optical counterpart” that is the bright light caused by a neutron star crashing into something. Those somethings are normally other neutron stars … but not this time. A small optical counterpart would confirm that the black hole swallowed the neutron star rather than shredding it to pieces — an event that Foley, Brady and other scientists are cautiously optimistic about.

    “The neutron star/black hole system is particularly exciting because we haven’t seen any case of that before, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff we could learn if we did detect it.”

    Artist’s depiction of the aftermath of a black hole hating a neutron star

    The “interesting stuff” includes how atoms are built and other secrets of subatomic physics and the expansion rate of the universe. Proving most astronomers are big kids at heart (and well behind the rest of the world in their video games), Simon Stevenson, an astronomer with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, described to CBS what all of this will look like.

    “We will either see a neutron star being ripped apart by a black hole, or getting swallowed whole like Pac-Man swallowing a ghost. Either way, we are in for a show!”

    Sounds like they will be too busy to play a game of Fortnite and pick up some new analogies.

    https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    25-08-2019 om 20:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.“Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars

    “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars

    The team behind NASA's InSight lander has informally named a rock on Mars “Rolling Stones Rock” after the band.


    A little larger than a golf ball, the rock appeared to have rolled about 3 feet (1 meter) on Nov. 26, 2018, propelled by InSight's retrorockets as the spacecraft touched down to study the Red Planet's deep interior.

    In images taken by InSight the next day, several divots in the orange-red soil can be seen trailing "Rolling Stones Rock." It's the farthest NASA has seen a rock roll while landing a spacecraft on another planet.

    NASA will use its robotic missions to Mars to help prepare for eventual human exploration of the Red Planet. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon, NASA's Artemis program is the next step in human exploration. It is a part of NASA's broader Moon to Mars exploration approach, which will quickly and sustainably explore the Moon and enable humanity's next giant leap to Mars.
      

    25-08-2019 om 20:16 geschreven door peter  

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    Linda Moulton Howe: Invisible Flying Object That Sounds Like a Jet Interrupts Beam of High Power Laser Pointer

    Lately, many strange and unknown flying objects have been observed in the sky. Now, according to the latest reports and published by Linda Moulton Howe, people heard strange jet-like sounds but their were no planes, even according to two witnesses, the invisible craft interrupted the beam of high power laser pointers.
     

    Image: Transparent ‘invisible’ craft photographed in the sky above Kaufman, Texas on July 19, 2016.

    On August 14, 2019, a scientist in San Diego, California, who has heard loud jet noises in clear sky and two times flashed a powerful laser in direction of unexplained jet noise and saw the beam interrupted by something invisible.

    Earlier this month, a Boeing employee witnessed the same phenomenon.

    Boeing employee: “I took my high power laser pointer and shot it up in the direction of the unexplained loud jet sound. … On two separate occasions, I have seen the beam interrupted momentarily — It seems to me there is a real physical object moving through the air that is simply not visible.”

    In both cases the laser beam was interrupted – Does that mean that there is a real physical object moving through the air that is simply not visible?

    Read full report at Earthfiles.com:

    In the next video Linda Moulton Howe talks on the invisible flying object reported by the Boeing employee. (Report starts at the 9.50 mark in the video.)

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    25-08-2019 om 17:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Chinese imperial tomb with wall art and clay pots dating back 1,300 years is found by builders working on a primary school's new playing field

    Chinese imperial tomb with wall art and clay pots dating back 1,300 years is found by builders working on a primary school's new playing field

    • The underground chamber is believed to be one of several rooms in this facility
    • It was located underneath Xiaojingyu Elementary School in the city of Taiyuan
    • Its murals and pottery are thought to be from the middle of the Tang dynasty
    • The exact identity of the person the chamber was built for remains a mystery 

    Pristine wall art and delicate pots have been found inside a stunning thousand-year-old imperial tomb unearthed by Chinese builders of a school sports field.

    The underground chamber - believed to be one of several rooms - was located underneath Xiaojingyu Elementary School in the city of Taiyuan.

    The school field was undergoing renovations, with workers sinking new foundations when they unintentionally punched through the ceiling of the burial chambers.

    They are believed to date back to the Tang Dynasty, one of the greatest empires in the medieval world that ruled from 618 to 907 AD.

    Pristine wall art and delicate pots have been found inside a stunning thousand-year-old imperial tomb unearthed by Chinese builders of a school sports field

    Pristine wall art and delicate pots have been found inside a stunning thousand-year-old imperial tomb unearthed by Chinese builders of a school sports field

    Officials said the perfectly preserved murals and pottery appeared to be from the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

    A cultural relics expert told local media the work bears the style of a roughly half-century period known as 'Sheng Tang', when the dynasty flourished between 713 and 766 AD.

    A tombstone inside the burial chamber suggested the individual laid to rest underground was 'not a commoner'.

    Their exact identity remains shrouded in mystery, however.

    The underground chamber - believed to be one of several rooms - was located underneath Xiaojingyu Elementary School in the city of Taiyuan

    The underground chamber - believed to be one of several rooms - was located underneath Xiaojingyu Elementary School in the city of Taiyuan

    They are believed to date back to the first century Tang dynasty, one of the greatest empires in the medieval world

    They are believed to date back to the first century Tang dynasty, one of the greatest empires in the medieval world

    The tomb as viewed from above
    Another view of the tomb  from above

    A tombstone inside the burial chamber suggested the individual laid to rest underground was 'not a commoner', but their identity remains shrouded in mystery

    The Tang era is seen by many historians as an era of progress as well as the greatest period for Chinese poetry.

    Chinese civilisation flourishing during the first half of the dynasty before the empire eventually collapsed under social unrest.

    Construction work at Xiaojingyu Elementary School, which is in Taiyuan's Wanbailin District, has been halted since the discovery.

    An official said further excavations into the tomb would not be easy due to the primary school's teaching buildings nearby.

    The work will require extensive negotiations with the school, which could be asked to relocate and have its building demolished.

    The school field was undergoing renovations, with workers sinking new foundations when they unintentionally punched through the ceiling of the burial chambers

    The school field was undergoing renovations, with workers sinking new foundations when they unintentionally punched through the ceiling of the burial chambers

    The eighth century heralded the second important epoch in Tang history, which is ranked as the classical period of Chinese art and literature, as it set the high standard to which later poets, painters, and sculptors aspired

    The eighth century heralded the second important epoch in Tang history, which is ranked as the classical period of Chinese art and literature, as it set the high standard to which later poets, painters, and sculptors aspired

    WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE TANG DYNASTY?

    After 300 years of division and fragmentation following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 AD, China was once again unified under the Sui dynasty (581–618).

    The political and governmental institutions established during this brief period lay the foundation for the growth and prosperity of the succeeding Tang dynasty.

    Marked by strong and benevolent rule, successful diplomatic relationships, economic expansion, and a cultural efflorescence of cosmopolitan style, Tang China emerged as one of the greatest empires in the medieval world.

    Merchants, clerics, and envoys from India, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Korea, and Japan thronged the streets of Chang’an, the capital, and foreign tongues were a common part of daily life.

    In the beginning decades of the Tang, especially under the leadership of Emperor Taizong (r. 626–49), China subdued its nomadic neighbors from the north and northwest, securing peace and safety on overland trade routes reaching as far as Syria and Rome.

    The seventh century was a time of momentous social change; the official examination system enabled educated men without family connections to serve as government officials.

    This new social elite gradually replaced the old aristocracy, and the recruitment of gentlemen from the south contributed to the cultural amalgamation that had already begun in the sixth century.

    The eighth century heralded the second important epoch in Tang history, achieved largely during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–56), called minghuang—the Brilliant Monarch.

    It is rightfully ranked as the classical period of Chinese art and literature, as it set the high standard to which later poets, painters, and sculptors aspired.

    25-08-2019 om 15:02 geschreven door peter  

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    Mysterious 1,000-Year-Old Imperial Tomb Discovered Under Elementary School in China

    Construction workers at an elementary school in school in China thought they were renovating the school’s sports field. Instead they ended up up unearthing a mysterious 1,000-year-old tomb filled with pottery and art from the Tang dynasty of imperial China.

    The tomb was discovered underneath Xiaojingyu Elementary School in the city of Taiyuan. Workers were setting new foundations for structures in the sports field when they accidentally punched through the ceiling of the 1,000 year old tomb. Which probably came as a decent surprise.  The tomb is believed to be one of several rooms in a larger underground complex.

    Inscriptions on in the mysterious tomb indicate that it belonged to someone of influence, but the exact identity of the eternal resident is still unknown. Archaeologists who have examined the ornate underground tomb say that it most likely dates back to the rule of the Tang dynasty, a golden age and high point of imperial China, which lasted from  618 to 907 AD.

    According to the Daily Mail, a “cultural expert” told local media that the artwork bears the very specific style of a roughly 50-year period known as Sheng Tang, when the Tang dynasty flourished between 713 and 766 AD.

    Tang dynasty mural

    Mural from the Tang dynasty similar to those found in the newly discovered tomb.

    The Tang dynasty period was one of immense progress until it collapse.d after social unrest during. At its height, Tang China was a period of social progress and imperial expansion. During the Tang dynasty, China stretched its economic influence across the world, trading with other empires even as far as Rome and Syria and merchants, envoys, and travelers from other nations were a common sight in the capital. It was also a period of  progress in education and art. The Tang period of imperial China was the first to enable educated men without family connections to serve as government officials. The Tang dynasty is also seen by historians as the high water mark for classical Chinese literature and art. The tomb found in Taiyuan was probably built during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who was called minghuang or “brilliant monarch.”

    Engraved brick from the Tang dynasty.

    Since the discovery of the tomb, construction work at Xiaojingyu Elementary School has been halted. Officials say that further excavations will be difficult due to the proximity of the school’s teaching buildings. According to the officials, negotiations with the school may result in the school having to be relocated and its buildings torn down. Fairly ironic for what started as a renovation project.

    But, even if the school is shut down for a little while, it might end up having a net positive impact on the children’s education. I know if, when I was a kid, a thousand-year-old tomb from Imperial China destroyed my school, I’d want to know everything there was to know about imperial China. That’s how you get kids interested in history.

    https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    25-08-2019 om 14:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Ancient City Of Troy Is Centuries Older Than Originally Thought

    According to new evidence obtained from excavations, archaeologists say that the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey may have been more than six centuries older than previously thought. Rüstem Aslan, who is from the Archaeology Department of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU), said that because of fires, earthquakes, and wars, the ancient city of Troy had been destroyed and re-established numerous times throughout the years.

    In the last 150 years or so, ten layers of settlements had been uncovered and they were named “Troy I” to “Troy XI”. This year, however, they discovered an eleventh layer of settlement that they named “Troy o”. “We found traces of burns, pottery and wooden beams in the Troy o layer,” Aslan told the Daily Sabah.

    Ancient city of Troy

    The items recovered were of great significance as they prove that the city’s history dates back to approximately 5,500 years ago in around 3500 BC. Prior to this year’s significant discovery of an eleventh layer, the previous layers of the settlements were from the ancient Greek to Byzantine time periods between 3000 BC and 1300 AD.

    The ancient city of Troy can be found on the mounds of Hisarlik, looking over to the Turkish Aegean coastal plain. It is known as one of the most famous and most visited archaeological sites in the entire world. Excavations of the ancient city began in 1870 by a German businessman named Heinrich Schliemann, who is very well known in the field of archaeology.

    Troy was famously known in the Greek Trojan War when Spartan and Achaean warriors from Greece laid siege on the city in the 13th century BC. It was written about in the famous poem called The Iliad by the Greek poet Homer.

    Trojan horse of Troy

    As for more recent times, in order to celebrate the 20thanniversary o+f being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Turkish government declared the year 2018 the “Year of Troy”. Hundreds of thousands of visitors have toured the famous archaeological site, which also includes a Troy Museum that opened in 2018 and houses around 2000 artifacts representing the ancient city. You can see more pictures here of the archaeological site of Troy.

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    25-08-2019 om 14:44 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA voert onderzoek naar mogelijk eerste misdrijf in de ruimte - HLN.be

    NASA voert onderzoek naar mogelijk eerste misdrijf in de ruimte - HLN.be

    Bron: Belga, De Morgen

    Anne McClain verbleef zes maanden in het Internationaal ruimtestation (ISS). Daar zou ze het bankaccount van haar ex gehackt hebben.

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    Anne McClain verbleef zes maanden in het Internationaal ruimtestation (ISS). Daar zou ze het bankaccount van haar ex gehackt hebben.
    Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA heeft officieel een onderzoek opgestart naar een mogelijk misdrijf dat in de ruimte zou gepleegd zijn. Het gaat wellicht om het eerste ruimtemisdrijf ooit, zo meldt de krant New York Times.

    De astronaute Anne McClain zou zich op onrechtmatige wijze toegang hebben verschaft tot de bankrekening van haar ex-vrouw. Ze zou dat gedaan hebben tijdens haar zes maanden durende missie in het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Toen Summer Worden, de ex van McClain, dat ontdekte, diende ze een klacht in bij de Federal Trade Commission. Ook bij de algemene inspectie van NASA werd intussen een klacht neergelegd.

    Voogdij over zoon

    Volgens New York Times is er wellicht geen geld van de rekening gehaald. De astronaute wordt wel beschuldigd van identiteitsfraude. Ook wordt aangehaald dat McClain mogelijk op zoek was naar bewarend materiaal om Worden de voogdij over hun zoon te ontzeggen.
    McClain, die in juni naar de aarde terugkeerde, zegt via haar advocaat dat ze niets verkeerd heeft gedaan. Ze zegt dat ze in het ISS enkel de gemeenschappelijke rekening van het koppel bekeek, omdat ze wilde nagaan of alles in orde was met de - nog steeds verstrengelde - financiën van het ex-koppel. Zo wilde ze zeker weten of er nog wel genoeg geld aanwezig was voor de opvoeding van hun kind. McClain zegt dat dit tijdens de relatie ook al gebeurde en dat ze gewoon gebruik maakte van het wachtwoord dat ze toen van Worden had gekregen.

    Maan

    McClain is een gelauwerd militair en astronaut. In de Irakoorlog maakte ze meer dan achthonderd gevechtsvluchten. Ze staat ook op de kandidatenlijst van de NASA van astronauten die mogelijk als eerste vrouw op de maan zullen landen.

    Anne McClain.

     AFP
    Anne McClain.

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    25-08-2019 om 10:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Russische robot Fiodor kan (voorlopig) niet aan boord gaan bij ISS - HLN.be

    Russische robot Fiodor kan (voorlopig) niet aan boord gaan bij ISS - HLN.be

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    De capsule van de Sojoez-MS-14 is onbemand, maar bevat wel de mensachtige robot Fiodor, die 1,80 meter groot is en bijna 160 kilogram weegt.

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    De capsule van de Sojoez-MS-14 is onbemand, maar bevat wel de mensachtige robot Fiodor, die 1,80 meter groot is en bijna 160 kilogram weegt.
     De Russische Sojoez-capsule met aan boord de humanoïde robot Fiodor, is er niet in geslaagd om zich op het voorziene uur vast te hechten aan het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Dat melden de Russische nieuwsagentschappen. Er zal wellicht maandagmorgen een nieuwe poging volgen.

    De koppeling had vanmorgen om 7.30 uur (Belgische tijd) automatisch moeten gebeuren, maar voorlopig heeft die nog niet kunnen plaatsvinden. De capsule was tot op 96 meter van de aanmeerplek genaderd, maar begon daarna weg te driften. Momenteel bevindt ze zich op ongeveer 280 meter van het ISS, zo meldt een reporter van het persbureau Tass vanuit het controlecentrum. Het ruimtevaartuig heeft de manoeuvres voor het uitvoeren van de koppeling opnieuw moeten opstarten.
    Volgens het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap is het mislukken van de koppeling niet te wijten aan de capsule. Wel zou er een probleem zijn met Kurs, het naderings- en koppelingssysteem op het ruimtestation. Een volgende poging om aan te meren zal wellicht pas na 48 uur uitgevoerd kunnen worden, ten vroegste maandagmorgen dus. Tot die tijd zal de Sojoez-capsule, met aan boord Fiodor, op “veilige afstand” van het ISS blijven.

    Skybot F-850
    De capsule van de Sojoez-MS-14 is onbemand, maar bevat wel de mensachtige robot Fiodor, die 1,80 meter groot is en bijna 160 kilogram weegt. Fiodor - Skybot F-850 voor de vrienden - is een Russische voornaam, maar luidt in het Engels Fedor. Dat staat voor “Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research”. 

    De robot moet twee weken lang verschillende taken uitvoeren onder toezicht van de Russische kosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov. Hij zal de vaardigheden van Fiodor testen onder micro-zwaartekracht. Een van de belangrijkste vaardigheden van de robot is dat hij menselijke bewegingen kan imiteren, waardoor hij astronauten kan helpen of taken van hen kan overnemen. Zijn terugkeer is voorzien op 6 september om 20.13 uur Belgische tijd.

    Fiodor heeft zelfs een eigen account op Instagram en Twitter, waarop hij een inkijk geeft in de dagelijkse beslommeringen van een humanoïde robot.

    Fiodor heeft net genoeg plaats in de Sojoez-capsule, die verder onbemand is.

     VIA REUTERS 
    Fiodor heeft net genoeg plaats in de Sojoez-capsule, die verder onbemand is.

    Onbemande capsule

    Rusland heeft sinds 2002 gebruik gemaakt van Sojoez-FG-draagraketten om mensen naar het ISS te brengen. Maar in 2020 wordt overgeschakeld op de draagraket Sojoez-2.1a, die ook al een Russische vrachtruimteschip van het type Progress gelanceerd heeft. Een lancering met een Progress mislukte, vandaar de test met een Sojoez-capsule die niet bemand is. 

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    25-08-2019 om 10:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.America's Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United States

    America's Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United States

    25-08-2019 om 01:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Space's mysterious fast radio bursts: What the heck are they?

    Space's mysterious fast radio bursts: What the heck are they?

    We've entered a new era of research into one of the newest phenomena in all of space. Here's what you need to know.

    BY  

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    We're already picking up more signals from deep space.

    Danielle Futselaar

    Fast radio bursts from space are a uniquely 21st-century mystery. They were first identified just 12 years ago and, up until very recently, almost nothing was known about them and where they come from.

    But new radio telescopes in Australia and Canada are already making it much easier to detect fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and here's a look at what we've learned so far.

    FRBs are essentially just what they sound like -- radio signals from somewhere in deep space that last for just milliseconds.

    "Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," Avi Loeb, a Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics theorist, said in a press release back in 2017.

    Since then, an "FRB Theory Wiki" hosted by the McGill Space Institute has grown to include over four dozen possible explanations ranging from "annihilating mini black holes" to "alien light sails," although most explanations at this point have something to do with pulsars or neutron stars. 

    An (extraterrestrial) intelligent explanation?

    It should really be no surprise that, as with most space stuff that can't yet be explained without a doubt by some natural phenomenon, aliens have been proposed as a possibility, including by Loeb himself.

    "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking," he says.

    Loeb and his colleagues worked out how much power would be needed to send such signals across the universe. Turns out it would require covering two Earth-size planets with energy collectors, leading Loeb to theorize that such a massive project might be used not to communicate, but to propel starships using high-energy beams.

    While aliens might be the most exciting possible explanation, that doesn't mean they're the most probable. There are, after all, natural phenomena in the cosmos that could generate such signals and are known to actually exist, which is more than we can say for extraterrestrials.

    In addition to neutron stars, there's also exploding black holes, magnetars and hypothetical blitzars that could be throwing off radio emissions that eventually make it to us.

    Or maybe there are different types of FRBs out there or different explanations we haven't even thought of yet.

    At least one case of an FRB was later explained by someone at an observatory opening a microwave oven door while it was running.

    Few encores

    One aspect of FRBs that has made them so hard to trace back to a source is that they rarely seem to repeat. For the first decade of FRB research, they were all just detected and never heard from again. Then, in January 2017, researchers announced they'd finally identified that FRB 121102 repeats.

    This allowed them to trace the blinking signal to a surprising source: a distant dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years beyond the Milky Way.

    "That's weird isn't it? You'd expect to find FRBs where there are more stars ... more stars means more neutron stars," Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University and the discovery team said at the time.

    But after the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia came online in late 2017, scientists had a new and highly valuable stream of FRB observations at their disposal. As of August 2019, a total of a dozen repeating fast radio bursts have now been confirmed or are in the process of being confirmed.

    Notably, one of the repeating FRBs picked up by the new Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) appears to be much closer than the first couple observed. While those came from somewhere billions of light years away on the other side of the universe, this newly heard one could come from the edge of our own galaxy.

    As more new observing equipment comes online, our understanding of FRBs could begin to crystallize very soon. 

    Researchers have also been able to integrate artificial intelligence with one telescope in Australia to detect FRBs in real-time as they arrive at Earth. That could rapidly speed up the work of studying the odd signals, which previously required combing through past observations taken months or even years previous.

    At this rate, we might soon be able to stream FRBs live as they arrive at our planet. Podcasts are fun, but I now look forward to a golden age of (tiny) bite-sized alien radio broadcasts.

    25-08-2019 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO Landed in Greenland; NASA Has Evidence

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