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Thursday, 21 December 2023

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Why is the winter solstice important?

The Irish Times 20 Dec 2023

It is probably not a coincidence that Christmas is so close to the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere ... Photograph. Brian Lawless/PA Ronan McGreevy ... The plastic globes you see with Earth upright at each pole are misleading ... As Earth orbits the sun, sunlight falls on different parts at different angles ... READ MORE ... .

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms ...

Business Insider 19 Dec 2023

An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new detail ... The newly enhanced image shows details of the planet's seasonal "cloud cap" that swirls over its north pole ... Uranus is approaching a critical moment in its orbit around the sun.

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The Moon’s Far Side Is Inexplicably More Conductive, Korean Lunar Orbiter Reveals

IFL Science 18 Dec 2023

There’s something odd about the far side of the Moon, scientists have concluded based on data from the Korean Pathfinder Lunor Orbiter ... Most of these relate to high latitudes, so Danuri is in an orbit that takes it over the poles, rather than in a more equatorial orbit as initial lunar missions favored.

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A Shiny Uranus Is JWST's Holiday Gift For Us All

IFL Science 18 Dec 2023

JWST's gift to us all this holiday season. an even better view of Uranus. Following a spectacular image taken earlier this year, the space telescope has been taking many observations of the distant ice giant planet ... The reason why we can see the whole pole is that Uranus orbits on its side. Its axis has a whopping 98-degree tilt compared to its orbit ... .

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Hanoi Embraces Future With China to Reassure Beijing, Experts Say

Beijing News 15 Dec 2023

Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asian program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, made light of the upgrade, describing Xi's visit to Hanoi as 'a face-saving trip that results in a lot of rhetoric but little concrete.' ... Poling noted that ...

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Vietnam to diplomatically handle China to maintain stability: Experts

Beijing News 15 Dec 2023

Director of the Southeast Asian program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, Greg Poling, highlighted the upgrade in both nations' relations, and described Xi's visit to Hanoi as "a face-saving trip that results in a lot of rhetoric but little concrete," reported VOA.

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Detailed NASA moon photos line walls in Mayborn exhibit

Waco Tribune-Herald 14 Dec 2023

“A New Moon Rises,” organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, shows what highly detailed photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera have revealed about lunar geology and topography ... Oversized images of the lunar surface shot by an orbiting ...

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The sun will start setting later each night nearly two weeks before the Winter Solstice

The Daily Jeff 08 Dec 2023

If someone were to watch from thousands of miles above the North Pole, they would see Earth rotating on its axis counterclockwise while also orbiting the sun counterclockwise. Since the orbit around the sun is 360 degrees and takes about 365 days, Earth moves roughly one degree forward each day.

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Was going to space a good idea?

Beijing News 05 Dec 2023

Muller ... The state of space 60 years on. Much has happened since ... A handful of people are living in two Earth-orbiting space stations. Humans are getting ready to return to the Moon after more than 50 years, this time to establish a permanent base and mine the deep ice lakes at the south pole. There were only 57 satellites in Earth orbit in 1963 ... Author.

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Europe is working on a multi-purpose habitat for the moon

Phys Dot Org 01 Dec 2023

... pole, nations are making efforts to contribute to Artemis and a permanent presence on our nearest celestial neighbor ... For example, data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has indicated that temperatures in the darkest craters at the poles are lower than -246�C (-410�F).

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2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season ranks 4th for most-named storms in a year

The Robesonian 30 Nov 2023

Twitter ... NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites provided vital information for monitoring and forecasting the hurricanes and tropical weather that threatened our lives and property this season ... NOAA’s polar-orbiting satellites orbit the Earth from pole to pole 14 times a day, providing full global coverage twice daily.

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NASA to train Indian astronaut for ISS voyage in deepening space ties

Reuters 29 Nov 2023

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) is a low-Earth orbit observatory system jointly developed by NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) ... India in August won a race to reach the south pole of the moon against Russia after Russia's Luna-25 lander crashed from orbit ... Our Standards. The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Acquire Licensing Rights ... Contact.

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2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-busiest; Idalia, Ophelia left biggest marks on eastern N.C.

Island Free Press 29 Nov 2023

From Wobx.com ... 16 ... 28 ... NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites provided vital information for monitoring and forecasting the hurricanes and tropical weather that threatened our lives and property this season ... NOAA’s polar-orbiting satellites orbit the Earth from pole to pole 14 times a day, providing full global coverage twice daily.

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UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz \u2014 Environment, Geography, Science and Technology (Week 34)

Indian Express 29 Nov 2023

The satellite was located in Sun-synchronous orbit ... \u2014\u00a0Bennu and other near-Earth asteroids could be dangerous to Earth, so it's critical to accurately predict their orbits ... \u2014 The two satellites were launched on April 28, 2003, and they circled the planet in a Sun-synchronous orbit from the North to the South poles.

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Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a ...

Maryville Daily Forum 28 Nov 2023

(THE CONVERSATION) Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth ... Instead, the probe would spend years orbiting and studying the planet, its 27 moons and its 13 rings ... It’s a matter of orbital architecture.