A frame from A Trip to the Moon. wikipedia David Rothery, The Open University It’s not often that the sudden appearance of a new impact crater on the Moon can be predicted, but it’s going to happen on March 4, when a derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into it. The rocket launched in […]
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Life inside Pluto? Hot birth may have created internal ocean on dwarf planet
Pluto, with its basin Sputnik Planitia on the right. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker David Rothery, The Open University June 29, 2020 – Pluto, along with many other dwarf planets in the outer solar system, is often thought of as dark, icy and barren – with a surface temperature of just […]