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Is 100% Renewable Energy Feasible For Entire Countries? Why, Yes Actually
In 2017, Mark Jacobson and colleagues from Stanford University published a scientific paper outlining a roadmap for 139 countries to transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
Professor Jacobson, an expert in renewable energy and climatology, describes how this paper, along with many other studies, make up a "body of work, carried out by over 85 authors and 35 peer-reviewers, [which] is further supported by an additional 30 peer-reviewed studies that find it is possible to match demand with supply with 100 percent or near-100 percent renewable energy systems."
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NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract
NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
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Supply chain, Artemis program limit SLS use for science missions
A limited supply chain and the demands of the Artemis program will prevent the use of the Space Launch System for alternative roles, such as launching science missions, until at least late this decade.
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Methane Detected on Enceladus Could Actually Be a Sign of Life, Study Shows
When the Cassini-Huygens probe dove through the salty plumes belching from the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus, it made an unexpected detection: a collection of compounds that are also associated with hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor. In particular, the amount of methane in the plumes caught astrobiologists' attention - it seemed peculiarly high. Even so, it remained possible that known geochemical (that is, non-biological) processes could be responsible for the abundance.
That's no longer the case. Scientists have determined that no known process can be pumping out the amount of methane observed spewing from Enceladus. That means it could be an unknown process - or it could be biological in origin. "We wanted to know: Could Earthlike microbes that 'eat' the dihydrogen and produce methane explain the surprisingly large amount of methane detected by Cassini?" said biologist Regis Ferriere of the University of Arizona.
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JWST passes launch review
The James Webb Space Telescope is one step closer to launch after a review of its Ariane launch vehicle, while NASA continues a separate review of the name of the spacecraft itself.
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New Orbiter Has Caught Glorious Images of Eerie Alien Auroras on Mars
The United Arab Emirates' Hope orbiter, which arrived at the red planet earlier this year, used its ultraviolet spectrometer to catch glowing structures of glowing atomic oxygen high up in the Martian night sky.
"The full set of data collected during these observations include far and extreme ultraviolet auroral emissions which have never been imaged before at Mars," the UAE Space Agency wrote in an update to the Hope website.
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Simulations Reveal The Most Likely Place For a Galactic Civilization in The Milky Way
The Milky Way is 13 billion years old. Some of our galaxy's oldest stars were born near the beginning of the Universe itself. During all these eons of time, we know at least one technological civilization has been born – us!
But if the galaxy is so ancient, and we know it can create life, why haven't we heard from anybody else?
If another civilization was just 0.1 percent of the galaxy's age older than we are, they would be millions of years further along than us and presumably more advanced. If we are already on the cusp of sending life to other worlds, shouldn't the Milky Way be teeming with alien ships and colonies by now?
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NASA taking “careful and deliberate” approach to repairing Hubble computer
In a June 30 update, NASA said engineers are now focusing on an electronics unit called the Command Unit/Science Data Formatter, which formats and transmits commands and data, as well as a power regulator. While both have backups, switching to them is a complex process because of how they’re connected to the overall payload computer system.
“Over the next week or so, the team will review and update all of the operations procedures, commands and other related items necessary to perform the switch to backup hardware,” NASA stated in the update. Testing in “a high-fidelity simulator” will follow before attempting the switch on Hubble itself.
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It's Official: UN Just Confirmed Antarctica's New Heat Record at 18.3 Celsius
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Blue Origin to fly Mercury 13 woman on first crewed New Shepard flight
Blue Origin announced July 1 that it will fly one of the “Mercury 13” women who underwent astronaut training in the early years of the space program on the company’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital flight.
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Virgin Orbit launches cubesats on second operational mission
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne successfully launched seven cubesats June 30 in the second operational mission of the air-launch system.
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Falcon 9’s first stage performed a successful landing on Landing Zone 1!
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North Korea-linked hackers accessed South’s rocket developer: spy agency
Hackers linked to North Korea broke into the network of a South Korean aerospace company last month that holds confidential rocket propulsion technologies developed for the nation’s first indigenous space launch vehicle KSLV-Ⅱ, the state spy agency said July 8.
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ESA resumes ExoMars parachute tests
The European Space Agency has resumed tests of the parachutes for its ExoMars lander, a system whose problems contributed to a two-year delay in the mission’s launch.
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NASA Announces Public Meeting on Mission Equity, Request for Information
NASA’s public meeting to discuss its recently issued request for information (RFI), entitled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Programs, Contracts and Grants, will take place at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 13.
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The Sun Just Spat Out an X-Class Flare, The Most Powerful Since 2017
The Sun appears to be waking up from the quiet period of its 11-year cycle.
On 3 July 2021, at 14:29 UTC (10:29 EDT), our wild star spat out its first X-class flare of Solar Cycle 25; it was the most powerful flare we've seen since September 2017.
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Lunar Exploration as a Service: From landers to spacesuits, NASA is renting rather than owning
NASA’s Human Landing System program is the biggest bet the agency has made on the commercial space industry since the commercial crew program a decade ago.
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Astronauts complete first Chinese space station spacewalk
Two Shenzhou-12 astronauts conducted a spacewalk late Saturday to carry to install equipment required for the long-term operation of China’s space station.
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Cows Have Hungry Stomach Microbes Capable of Breaking Down Some Plastics
Microbes fished from the stomachs of cows can gobble up certain kinds of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in soda bottles, food packaging, and synthetic fabrics.
Scientists uncovered these microbes in liquid that was drawn from the rumen, the largest compartment of a ruminant's stomach; ruminants include hooved animals like cattle and sheep, which rely on microorganisms to help break down their diet of coarse vegetation.
The rumen acts as an incubator for these microbes, which either digest or ferment foods consumed by a cow or other ruminant, according to the University of Minnesota.
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NASA seeking proposals for next phase of Artemis lunar lander services despite industry protests
NASA is seeking proposals to begin the next phase of Artemis lunar lander services, moving quickly despite unresolved protests about its selection of SpaceX to develop a lunar lander.
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OneWeb hits coverage goal with latest launch, sets sights on southern regions
OneWeb is shifting focus to the southern hemisphere after completing coverage north of 50 degrees latitude, following the launch of its latest batch of broadband satellites July 1.
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OneWeb 8 batch of 36 satellites lifted off atop a Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket on it's way to Polar Orbit
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Methane Keeps Showing Up on Mars. NASA Just Got Closer to Solving The Mystery
Methane is an organic molecule that hangs around in Earth's atmosphere and is mostly produced by living organisms, most notoriously by farting cows. Its detection on Mars, on the other hand, has been a weird mystery for planetary scientists.
In recent years, NASA's Curiosity rover has picked up tiny traces of methane numerous times on the red planet. While these emissions might be coming from some geological process, it was possible they could indicate the presence of some sort of life form on Mars (unlikely to be cows, of course).
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Some beautiful moments from today's Falcon 9 Launch, Enjoy!
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Transporter 2 mission successfully lifted off from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 Rocket
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