November 30 marked the official end of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, although more storms are still possible. Why did 2020 have so many storms? And what does climate change have to do with it? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/record-smashing-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-official-end…
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ESAIL’s first map of global shipping
The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships at sea has captured 57 000 messages in its first 24 hours of operation, using advanced on-board processing algorithms. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-esail-global-shipping.html…
Tiny island survived tsunami that helped separate Britain and Europe
A tsunami swept across the North Sea 8150 years ago – but the Dogger archipelago that existed in the area at the time survived the disaster Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261173-tiny-island-survived-tsunami-that-helped-separate-britain-and-europe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
How Lion Air’s Boeing 737 Max Experienced a Near-Crash The Day Before 2018’s Fatal Crash
ABC News tells the story of Indonesia-based budget airline Lion Air, which had ordered over 200 Boeing 737 MAX 8s at a cost of $22 billion — and what happened on a flight the day before a fatal crash on October 29th, 2018: [A]fter its first flight in May 2017, the 737 MAX 8 went 17 months without incident. Then, on…
Leaf-Cutter Ants Have Rocky Crystal Armor, Never Before Seen in Insects
Leaf-cutter ants are named for their Herculean feats: they chomp foliage and carry unwieldy pieces, like green flags many times their size, long distances to their colonies. There they chew up the leaves to feed underground fungus farms. Along the way, the insects brave all manner of predators — and regularly engage in wars with other ants. But these insects are…
Swarm of eels breaks record for most fish ever spotted at one time in abyssal ocean
Before we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings. Source: https://www.livescience.com/largest-recorded-swarm-of-deep-sea-fish.html
Huge reservoir of fresh water found beneath the sea off Hawaii
A huge cache of fresh water found beneath the sea floor off the western coast of Hawaii’s Big Island could lift the threat of drought for people living there Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2260864-huge-reservoir-of-fresh-water-found-beneath-the-sea-off-hawaii/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
US-European ocean monitoring satellite launches into orbit
A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-us-european-ocean-satellite-orbit.html…
SpaceX Begins a Day With Two Falcon 9 Launches, Seventh Flight of a Recycled Rocket
While tonight will see SpaceX’s 16th launch of its broadband satellites, that launch will also make history, reports CNET: The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket is set to make its seventh flight, which would be a record for rocket recycling for the company. The booster previously flew on four Starlink missions and a pair of larger telecom satellite launches….
Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video)
A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean. Source: https://www.livescience.com/bright-meteor-video-tasman-sea-november-2020.html