Particles carried from Earth’s poles via our planet’s magnetosphere could be interacting with lunar rocks to create small quantities of water on the moon. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/earth-wind-may-generate-water-on-moon…
Tag: Sahara
Ice covers the Sahara Desert for just 4th time in 50 years
The dunes of the northwestern Sahara desert were streaked with ice on Tuesday, creating a surreal landscape Source: https://www.livescience.com/sahara-desert-ice-beautiful-photos.html
Sahara’s ‘Godzilla’ dust storm may have been triggered by warming in the Arctic
Warmer-than-average conditions and declining sea ice in the Arctic may be linked to the Sahara Desert’s biggest dust storm in recorded history. Source: https://www.livescience.com/godzilla-dust-cloud.html
What astronauts think about life away from Earth
Axiom is an aerospace company making new possibilities accessible to humanity. Watch as astronauts retell their experience launching from Earth and living in space. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/axiom-video-roundtable-astronauts-talk-about-being-in-space…
Billion-year-old Martian dunes reveal planet’s history
The discovery of near-perfectly preserved billion-year-old Martian dunes is helping scientists to unravel the geologic and climatic history of the red planet. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/billion-year-old-martian-dunes-reveal-planet-history…
Could the Sahara ever be green again?
The Sahara was once a grass and shrub-covered steppe. Could this ever happen again? Source: https://www.livescience.com/will-sahara-desert-turn-green.html
5 years after New Horizons flyby, 10 cool things about Pluto
Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the Pluto system scientists have learned thanks to the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of the distant world in 2015. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-horizons-flyby-10-cool-things-about-pluto…
Satellite sees ‘Godzilla’ dust plume sweep across the Atlantic Ocean
Each year, dust from the Sahara Desert blows off Africa and across the Atlantic, but most years that plume isn’t so massive it’s nicknamed “Godzilla.” Source: https://www.livescience.com/godzilla-dust-plume-from-sahara-satellite-photos.html
Dusty sunrises and sunsets over U.S. South
See the layers of dust set against this South Carolina sunset? That dust came from Africa’s Sahara Desert. It traveled across the Atlantic Ocean this month to cause dusty skies across the U.S. south and into Texas. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photos-saharan-dust-june-2020-florida-texas…
Saharan-fed sunsets in the US
A massive Saharan dust plume is moving into the southeast US, bringing technicolor sunsets and suppressing tropical storms. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/saharan-dust-cloud-us-sunsets-june2020…