Harald Franzen
Earth's atmosphere is leaking: around 90 tonnes of material escapes out into space from our planet's upper atmosphere every single day.
So that’s what created the water M: It’s not the collision that created water. Comets contain water. They’re made up mostly of cosmic dust and water. When they collide with the atmosphere, they break up. And the water they contain rains down to earth. Ocean water came from that ...
When sunlight reaches Earth, our atmosphere scatters and filters different wavelengths. Shorter wavelengths such as blue light are scattered outward, while longer wavelengths like red are bent — or refracted — into Earth's umbra, according to theNatural History Museum. When the moon passes through...
In the past, people thought that we couldtake whatever we wantedfrom the planet, without any consequences! Now, we know that’snot true.If we keep taking as much as we want, whenever we want, our planet’s resources could one dayrun out. ...
Temperature change is one of the greatest in Earth's climate change over a long period of time.It can happen naturally or because of human activities,such as burning gas and coal.Burning these fuels produces carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) and other pollutants into the atmosphere,which...
Therefore, how such biopolymers, using small types of components, could be formed in the messy environments of primitive Earth is an issue. When the mechanism producing genes and proteins, which uses a relatively small types of components, was acquired by something, that something would become ...
The results of the precipitation and SOS bias correlation showed (Figure 3A–E) that there were maximum positive and negative correlations in late April and early May, respectively. The positive correlation between the precipitation and SOS in late April was as high as 77.09%, which indicates th...
For example, light traveling through Earth's atmosphere moves almost as fast as light in a vacuum, slowing down by just three ten-thousandths of the speed of light. But light passing through a diamond slows to less than half its typical speed,PBS NOVAreported. Even so, it travels through ...
The Sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona, will become easier to view from Earth on 8 April. By Sumeet Kulkarni Twitter Facebook Email Viewers along the eclipse’s path in North America will watch the Moon cross the Sun’s face and block the solar disk, offering the chance to ...