NASA ‘Should’ve Looked Twice Before Posting These Apollo Moon Mission Images’
No, we don’t actually believe the Moon landing was a hoax. Thankfully, there is ample evidence that can prove that we’ve been on the moon more than 50 years ago.
NASA’s Moon Landings have given birth to two Massive conspiracy theories that remain present ever since mankind set foot on the Moon’s surface in 1969. Conspiracy theorists are convinced that: 1) We never actually been to the moon and 2) that we did go to the moon, but encountered an alien presence and that many photographs from the journey to the moon show evidence of massive, alien UFOs.
Apollo 11 was the mission that landed the first two people on the Moon’s surface.
Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.
Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later.
The astronauts remained about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth.
Despite this historical achievement, people remain in disbelief that America made it to the moon.
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According to astronomers, every year on the surface of the largest Planet in the Solar System fall several asteroids with a diameter of more than 10 meters.On October 15, 2021, at 2:24pm GMT, Japanese astronomers recorded a 2-second light explosion in the Northern Hemisphere of Jupiter, which was probably caused by the collision of a space object with the gas giant.
This is the 9th recorded collision in the entire history of observations and the second since September 14, 2021.
For the first time, astronomers have observed a white dwarf star ‘switching on and off’ in less than 30 minutes. The researchers, led by Durham University in the United Kingdom, announced on October 18 that they used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe the unusual phenomenon, which had previously only been observed over a period of days and months. The British university team observed the phenomenon in the solar system TW Pictoris, which is 1,400 light-years away from Earth, using TESS data.
University of Durham researchers said that the particular white dwarf which showed the phenomena is known to be "accreting, or feeding from an orbiting companion star. Our astronomers saw it lose brightness in 30 minutes, a process only previously seen in accreting white dwarfs over a period of several days to months."
The official release elaborated on the incident, stating that the brightness of the accreting white dwarf is affected by the amount of material surrounding it, which it feeds on. Astronomers believe that what they have seen could be changes to the white dwarf’s surface magnetic field. Notably, when the mode is "on," the white dwarf star normally "feeds off" the accretion disc before the system "suddenly and abruptly" turns "off" and the brightness decreases.
Why the system goes ‘off’?The researchers also noted in the statement that when the system ‘abruptly’ turns ‘off,’ the magnetic field of the white dwarf star spins so fast that it hinders the amount of ‘food’ that the white dwarf star can receive. According to the astronomers, this is known as magnetic gating. The shortage of ‘food’ for the star leads to "semi-regular small increases in brightness seen by the astronomers. After some time, the system sporadically turns "on" again, and the brightness increases back to its original level."
The full research paper has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy and the study was led by Dr Simone Scaringi in Durham University’s Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. NASA’s TESS is normally used to spot planets outside of the solar system.
The closest star from Earth is located just over 4 light-years away in the Alpha Centauri star system. It is a binary star system, meaning that it is comprised of two stars that orbit around a common center of mass. The two stars are known as Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, with a third star, Proxima Centauri, located even closer to Earth.
Alpha Centauri A and B are similar in size and brightness to our own sun. Alpha Centauri A is slightly larger and brighter than our sun, while Alpha Centauri B is slightly smaller and cooler. Both stars are located in the constellation Centaurus, which can be seen in the southern hemisphere.
Proxima Centauri, on the other hand, is a much smaller and cooler star known as a red dwarf. It is located just over 4.2 light-years away from Earth, making it the closest known star to our solar system. Despite its proximity, Proxima Centauri is much too faint to be seen with the naked eye and can only be detected with telescopes.
The discovery of the Alpha Centauri star system dates back to the early 19th century, when astronomers began using telescopes to observe the night sky in more detail. In 1832, Scottish astronomer Thomas Henderson measured the parallax of Alpha Centauri, which allowed him to calculate its distance from Earth. This discovery marked the first time that the distance to a star other than the sun had been accurately measured.
The Alpha Centauri system has been the subject of much scientific study and speculation over the years. In 2016, a team of astronomers discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, raising the possibility that there could be other habitable planets in the system. This discovery has sparked renewed interest in exploring the Alpha Centauri system in search of extraterrestrial life.
In recent years, there have been several initiatives to send spacecraft to the Alpha Centauri system, including the Breakthrough Starshot project, which aims to send a fleet of tiny spacecraft to the system using laser propulsion. While such missions are still in the planning stages, they represent an exciting possibility for exploring the closest star system to our own.
In conclusion, the closest star from Earth is located in the Alpha Centauri system, comprised of Alpha Centauri A and B, and the smaller red dwarf, Proxima Centauri. The discovery of this system has played a key role in our understanding of the universe, and ongoing efforts to explore it hold the promise of further scientific breakthroughs in the years to come.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.
If we take the moon’s current rate of recession and project it back in time, we end up with a collision between the Earth and moon around 1.5 billion years ago. However, the moon was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, meaning that the current recession rate is a poor guide for the past.
Along with our fellow researchers from Utrecht University and the University of Geneva, we have been using a combination of techniques to try and gain information on our solar system’s distant past.
We recently discovered the perfect place to uncover the long-term history of our receding moon. And it’s not from studying the moon itself, but from reading signals in ancient layers of rock on Earth.
Reading between the layers
In the beautiful Karijini National Park in western Australia, some gorges cut through 2.5 billion year old, rhythmically layered sediments. These sediments are banded iron formations, comprising distinctive layers of iron and silica-rich minerals once widely deposited on the ocean floor and now found on the oldest parts of the Earth’s crust.
Cliff exposures at Joffre Falls show how layers of reddish-brown iron formation just under a metre thick are alternated, at regular intervals, by darker, thinner horizons.
The darker intervals are composed of a softer type of rock which is more susceptible to erosion. A closer look at the outcrops reveals the presence of an additionally regular, smaller-scale variation. Rock surfaces, which have been polished by seasonal river water running through the gorge, uncover a pattern of alternating white, reddish and blueish-grey layers.
In 1972, Australian geologist A.F. Trendall raised the question about the origin of the different scales of cyclical, recurrent patterns visible in these ancient rock layers. He suggested that the patterns might be related to past variations in climate induced by the so-called "Milankovitch cycles."
Cyclical climate changes
The Milankovitch cycles describe how small, periodic changes in the shape of the Earth’s orbit and the orientation of its axis influence the distribution of sunlight received by Earth over spans of years.
Right now, the dominant Milankovitch cycles change every 400,000 years, 100,000 years, 41,000 years and 21,000 years. These variations exert a strong control on our climate over long time periods.
These climate changes have significantly altered the conditions at Earth’s surface, such as the size of lakes. They are the explanation for the periodic greening of the Saharan desert and low levels of oxygen in the deep ocean. Milankovitch cycles have also influenced the migration and evolution of flora and fauna including our own species.
And the signatures of these changes can be read through cyclical changes in sedimentary rocks.
Recorded wobbles
The distance between the Earth and the moon is directly related to the frequency of one of the Milankovitch cycles — the climatic precession cycle. This cycle arises from the precessional motion (wobble) or changing orientation of the Earth’s spin axis over time. This cycle currently has a duration of ~21,000 years, but this period would have been shorter in the past when the moon was closer to Earth.
This means that if we can first find Milankovitch cycles in old sediments and then find a signal of the Earth’s wobble and establish its period, we can estimate the distance between the Earth and the moon at the time the sediments were deposited.
The moon Titan, which orbits Saturn, is a peculiar world with a complex geology and a unique atmosphere. It is characterized by its incredibly cold temperatures, with seas and lakes of liquid methane and ethane covering its surface. However, beneath its rock-hard water ice crust, it also harbors an ocean of liquid water that may potentially support life.
Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium have sought to better understand the subsurface ocean of Titan and its interaction with the ice shell that covers it. Specifically, they want to explore how the ocean’s depth and the pressure exerted by the icy shell influence the formation of tidal motions and currents within it.
To achieve this, the scientists employed a sophisticated numerical model that had previously been used to examine Titan’s surface methane lakes and seas. They simulated a 60-mile-deep (100 kilometers) ocean to model the processes within the water body, examining both two- and three-dimensional aspects of the subsurface ocean.
Additionally, the researchers studied Titan’s gyres, which are large systems of rotating ocean currents similar to those found on Earth. While Earth’s ocean tides are influenced by the moon’s gravity, tidal motions on Titan are primarily influenced by the subsurface ocean’s depth and the pressure of the ice shell on the underground water body, creating tides and currents and the gyres that drive them.
The stiffness and thickness of the ice shell play a significant role in manipulating the tidal motions and gyres on a global scale. Titan only appears to have two main gyres compared to Earth’s five, and they simultaneously rotate around the moon’s poles.
To create their models, the researchers used a combination of previous calculations and studies of high-latitude oceans on Earth. However, the study has limitations as scientists are yet to determine the exact depth of Titan’s subsurface ocean.
David Vincent, the lead author of the study and a research assistant in environmental sciences at UCLouvain, emphasized that their research does not provide a definitive conclusion on the depth of Titan’s subsurface ocean. Nonetheless, the study offers valuable insights into the moon’s ocean dynamics, which could inform future missions to explore Titan.
Vincent and Robert Tyler, a co-author of the study who is a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, both mentioned NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission to Titan as the next step in exploring the moon. The Dragonfly mission, scheduled to launch in 2027 and arrive at Titan in 2034, will not focus on the subsurface ocean but will study electric fields that could give some insights into the ocean’s depth.
"Future studies should either use new analysis methods of Cassini’s data or use models," Vincent said. "Regarding ocean modeling, the next step could consist in improving the modelisation of 3D phenomena related to temperature and ‘salinity’ and study their interaction with the tidal motion."
According to astronomers, several asteroids with diameters more than 10 meters collide with the surface of the solar system’s largest planet every year, causing explosions visible from Earth. Previously, such collisions were registered in 1994, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019.
If confirmed, this will be the ninth recorded impact on Jupiter since the first in July 1994, when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 shattered into several smaller pieces, sinking one after another into the giant’s gas shell, leaving dark marks on the clouds of Jupiter, some of them the size of our planet.
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