ESA’s Mars Express orbiter captured images of a huge crater lake at the planet’s North Pole. Using data collected by the mission, ESA has created a virtual video of a flyby of the area. Mars once had liquid water on its surface, but now it is too cold to support …
Read More »The mysterious appearance of pink ice in the Alps could have dire consequences
Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change. There is debate about the origin of the algae, but Biagio Di Mauro, from the National Research Council of Italy, said the pink snow seen …
Read More »Pink ice in the Italian Alps ignites the algae probe
PASSO GAVIA: Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change. There is debate about the origin of the algae, but Biagio Di Mauro, from the National Research Council of Italy, said the pink …
Read More »A gorgeous new video lets you fly over a vast ice-filled crater on Mars
We love soaring videos from other worlds. These impressive videos, created from images collected by spacecraft in orbit, can give us an idea of what it would be like to fly in a plane on another planet. This latest video from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft offers a …
Read More »There is a place on Earth that is getting colder, not hotter. New study sheds light on why
Earth’s oceans simmer with heat trapped by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. But a patch of water in the North Atlantic stubbornly resists the trend and actually drops the temperature. This ‘cold drop’ has been a topic of interest to climatologists since it was first seen in 2015. Unfortunately, the …
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