Tag: Earth
Global warming: the latest shock report from NOAA
NOAA has updated its state of the climate dashboard, which provides an overview of climate change, its causes and consequences at the start of 2022. You will also be interested…
15 events on Earth in 2021 as seen from space
At the end of the year, Planet and the editorial staff of Futura offer you a retrospective in images of 15 outstanding news from the Earth, seen from space. You…
Formation of the Solar System: news on the origin of Mars and the Earth
Some cosmochemists suspected that the Earth and Mars would have formed by accreting significant amounts of matter from the regions where the giant planets were born. Showing that this was…
Omicron variant: 3,600 worldwide flights canceled on Sunday
More than 3,600 flights were canceled worldwide on Sunday, as the Omicron variant spread rapidly and many airline employees were in quarantine. More than half of canceled flights have their…
How long does it take to reach each planet in the Solar System from Earth?
We are 41 million kilometers from Venus, 78 million kilometers from Mars and 4.3 billion kilometers from Neptune. How long did the different space probes take to reach the different…
The rocks of the interior of Mars reproduced in the laboratory on Earth
On Mars, since 2019, the Insight mission has been collecting data concerning seismic waves passing through the mantle of the Red Planet. By reproducing in the laboratory the temperature and…
Tetraneutrons, mini neutron stars, would have been produced on Earth!
They have been hunted for almost 50 years and for 20 years they seem to be pointing more and more. Tetraneutrons, nuclei composed only of neutrons, much as if they…
Fluctuations on Jupiter look terribly like some seen on Earth
To reach Jupiter, it took the Juno probe about five years. From this distant world, it sends astronomers images that help them better understand the giant planet and its 80…
Why does the air contain less oxygen in the mountains?
If the air contains less oxygen in the mountains than at the seaside, it is because the pressure there is lower. The explanations. K2, the “mountain without pity” With 8,611…
Global overpopulation: what are the possible consequences?
We would be over 7.6 billion human beings on Earth and two billion more in 2050. What is the impact of overpopulation on the environment and the world’s resources? You…