Mars Year 36 begins on February 7, 2021. If you’re looking for a reason to celebrate, here’s to a Happy New Year … on Mars. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/mars-calendar-years-began-in-earth-year-1955…
Tag: Grand Canyon
Nathan Myhrvold’s Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes
Nathan Myhrvold is a former CTO of Microsoft, co-founder of the equity company Intellectual Ventures, and the founder of “food innovation lab” Modernist Cuisine (which among other things resulted in book of remarkable food photography). But he’s now photographing the intricate designs of snowflakes, reports Fast Company: Over the span of 18 months, Myhrvold built a camera with a microscopic lens…
313-million-year-old track marks found in Grand Canyon
The 313-million-year-old tracks were left by a tetrapod. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fossilized-tracks-grand-canyon.html
Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
The largest canyon in the Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
A Sunset Night Sky over the Grand Canyon
Seeing mountain peaks glow red from Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Huge hidden canyon under Greenland ice sheet may have flowing water
A valley longer than the Grand Canyon hidden beneath the Greenland ice sheet may carry running water. How quickly it flows may affect how the ice melts Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211583-huge-hidden-canyon-under-greenland-ice-sheet-may-have-flowing-water/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…