The landings of NASA’s Perseverance rover and China’s Tianwen-1 rover on Mars could be detected by seismometers already on the planet as part of the InSight mission Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263499-nasa-probe-on-mars-may-feel-the-ground-shake-as-rovers-land-in-2021/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Human-linked Earth vibrations dropped 50% during Covid-19 lockdown
Between March and May 2020, many people across Earth went into lockdown. During those months, seismographs recorded a drop in human-linked vibrations in the solid Earth, by an average of 50%. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/covid19-lockdown-2020-caused-50-percent-global-reduction-human-linked-earth-vibrations…
Scientists Have Made Bose-Einstein Condensates in Space for the First Time
On board the International Space Station since May 2018 is a mini-fridge-size facility called the Cold Atom Lab (CAL), capable of chilling atoms in a vacuum down to temperatures one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero. It is, for all intents and purposes, one of the coldest spots in the known universe. And according to a new study published…