What Lake Bonneville Left Behind

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Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory What Lake Bonneville Left Behind Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search   The rugged terrain of the Silver Island Mountains and Crater Island rises above the pale playa and bright…

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New ‘Star Trek’ documentary featuring William Shatner hits theaters this fall, celebrating 60 years of Trek

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The “Star Trek” franchise’s 60th anniversary is coming straight at us warp speed and will be arriving on Sept. 8, 2026. “Trek” faithful from around the globe are expected to pause and salute this space fantasy institution created by Gene Roddenberry in whichever way they deem appropriate. The celebration has already begun earlier this year at the 2026 Rose Parade and will accelerate past September and into the fall, where there’ll no doubt be 40th anniversary screenings of “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” and 30th anniversary tributes to “Star…

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How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions

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A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar system, revealing the CME to be surprisingly lopsided. CMEs are “burps” from the sun – huge clouds of magnetized plasma belched out from the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, the corona, by the energy resulting from a solar flare. The magnetized CME cloud then expands out into the solar system, and the charged particles that the cloud contains are a significant…

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

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Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, of thin, ledge-like layers at target “Los Toldos,” using its Right Mast Camera (Mastcam). Curiosity captured the image on Aug. 12, 2026…

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How will NASA’s astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?

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HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring more commercial space stations into the fold? It’s an interesting mix of government and private companies, of space agency personnel and of contractors, all working together to keep U.S. and international astronauts flying through the end of the ISS — currently expected around 2030 — and the new breed of commercial space stations expected to take its place. Canadian reporters like myself were invited on a tour of Johnson Space Center (JSC)…

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‘We Want to Believe’ book explores the reality of UFOs: ‘It’s always going to be more likely that someone is wrong about what they saw’ (interview)

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After all these years, we still want to believe. Whether you’re a bona fide believer or a staunch skeptic, we can all agree that UFO legends and lore is a fascinating subject that continues to fuel endless debate. And with pop culture feeding our lizard brains lurid tales of flying saucers and alien invasions, it’s no wonder humanity is always up for a good story of inexplicable aerial sightings or various uncanny encounters of the third kind. In “We Want To Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream And Why It Matters”…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 224 — The Science of Artemis

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The Science of Artemis – What We’ll Do on the Moon – YouTube Watch On On Episode 224 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Rick Jenet are joined by Dr. David Kring to discuss the where, whys, and hows of the Artemis Program’s lunar exploration plans. It has been said that the Moon is a harsh mistress, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the lunar south pole. That is, however, where the Artemis program is headed, and we need to figure out how to…

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APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids

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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 22… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Mostly Perseids Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view. On that night, the total count came to…

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What happens when a galaxy’s supermassive black hole turns off? These dying radio galaxies could show us

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Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of so-called “radio galaxies” with fading “radio lobes.” The discovery reveals what happens when the supermassive black hole engines that power these vast, blooming outflows of plasma stall. This discovery increases our understanding of the life cycles of galaxies. The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio galaxies found in a region of the sky over Earth, studied intensely by the XMM-Newton X-ray spacecraft, called the XMM–Newton Large-Scale Structure (XMM–LSS) field. Radio galaxies are extremely bright in radio…

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Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,000 US rocket launches per year

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The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights that lift off and land within its borders, and aims to expand the nation’s capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030. President Donald Trump just signed a new National Space Transportation Policy that lays out priorities for commercial, civil and national security missions to orbit. The memorandum, published Thursday (Aug. 20), introduces the first update to the policy since 2013, and comes as commercial operators such as SpaceX have driven U.S. launch cadences up more…

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