Friday 8 September 2017

Out There: Cassini Flies Toward a Fiery Death on Saturn

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Launched in 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission has reshaped scientific understanding of the solar system’s most exotic planet and its mysterious moons.
via New York Times

Cassini Burns Into Saturn

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will plunge into Saturn on September 15, incinerating itself after 20 years in space.
via New York Times

'Rubber material' discovered that could lead to scratch-proof paint for car

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A stretchy miracle material has been discovered that could be used to create highly resistant smart devices and scratch-proof paint for cars, report investigators.
via Science Daily

Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context

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A new classification scheme has been devised for the evolutionary stages of worlds based on 'non-equilibrium thermodynamics' -- a planet's energy flow being out of sync, as the presence of life could cause.
via Science Daily
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Water-based lithium-ion batteries that don't explode now created

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For the first time a lithium-ion battery has been developed that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark desired for household electronics, such as laptop computers, without the fire and explosive risks associated with some commercially available non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries.
via Science Daily

The Great Gig in the Sky

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There were no crowds on the beach at Phillips Lake, Oregon on August 21. But a few had come there to stand, for a moment, in the dark shadow of the Moon. From the beach, this unscripted mosaic photo records their much anticipated solar eclipse. In two vertical panels it catches the last few seconds of totality and the first instant of 3rd contact, just as the eclipse ends and sunlight faintly returns. Across the US those gathered along the path of totality also took pictures and shared their moment. And like those at Phillips Lake they may treasure the experience more than any planned or unplanned photograph of the total eclipse of the Sun.

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