Tag: earth
‘The Blue Marble’: the story of Earth’s most iconic photo
Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Harrisson Schmitt/NASA On December 7, 1972, a space shutterbug snapped a stolen shot that shocked…
FlipFact (August 10, 2019): How long would it take to fall down a tunnel through the Earth?
FlipFact of the Day: Imagine an airless, frictionless tunnel through Earth, starting at one point and ending at its exact opposite…
Earth Hour is great – but it’s not enough to save the planet
•Earth Hour alone isn’t enough to solve the world’s energy problems, and may even encourage a dangerous line of thinking.…
Before the dinosaurs, almost everything on Earth died. What happened?
•The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place 252 million years ago. •Experts say that rising…
A “Farout” discovery: the most distant Solar System body ever found
• The newly discovered dwarf planet 2018 VG18 (or “Farout”) is currently the most distant body in the Solar System.…
Check out Diwata-2’s first photos of the Philippines
• PHL-Microsat has released the first images captured by Diwata-2, approximately one month after the microsatellite’s launch. • The images…
7 reasons why we know Earth is NOT flat
If you can read this article, there’s a pretty decent chance that you’re reading it somewhere on Earth — that…
Here’s how the first animals appeared on Earth
Humanity and the life we see around us – from our lovable pets to the wonderfully exotic creatures we only…
