First quantitative sample from hadal regions including meiofauna with macrofauna was taken by Jumars and Hessler at 7200 min the Aleutian Trench.View on timeline December 1978 scavenging amphipods large densities of scavenging amphipods photographed using a lander system on the RV Thomas Washington, ...
In this lesson, you will learn about the technology that made space exploration possible, and about the race to be the first country to accomplish the feat of traveling into space. The lesson will unfold a timeline of discoveries and history-making events that have shaped what we know about ...
Astronomers discover that the large gap between Mars and Jupiter contains a large asteroid belt. The largest, Ceres, was found to have a diameter of 480 miles. 1806 - Claude Ruggiere launched small animals in rockets equipped with parachutes, in France. 1806 AD - First major rocket ...
Ancient astronomers' knowledge about planets wasn't as in-depth as our current knowledge, but they were able to differentiate many of the planets from the stars. In particular, they knew about the five planets that were visible to the naked eye: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury. ...
Geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh re-assessed the timeline of earlyanimal evolutionby analysing records of fossil discoveries and environmental change. Until now, the Cambrian Explosion—which took place between 540 and 520 million years ago—was thought to have given rise to almost all ...
The final collision in Earth's timeline was with Theia, a rocky planetoid perhaps the size of Mars. This protoplanet sideswiped Earth, leaving our planet mostly intact but destroying itself and blowing away Earth's atmosphere. Theia's vaporized debris condensed into Earth's moon. Some researchers...
NASA's InSight to Mars undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California, ahead of its launch. Payload (Image credit: Leif Heimbold/NASA/JPL-Caltech) The Atlas V rocket's payload fairing, holding the InSight lander, gets lifted up so that it can be mated to ...