Natalie Starkey, a cosmochemist, said, in an interview to a news daily, that species on the Earth could be wiped out in an instant if we don’t care about space rocks. She emphasized the government to move some necessary steps to protect our planet. For NASA, asteroids and comets are not at all a stranger things. They are seeing and observing them daily. The space agency already admitted that space rocks are passing our planet every day at a distance that is considered as close call in the cosmic scale. Now, the agency has also conceded that there are some other space rocks too; they can easily wipe out a city or an entire state. From the explanation of Natalie about how an asteroid impact could bring unimaginable catastrophe, it doesn’t matters which place on the Earth embraces the impact; the consequence will definitely be worse. There is plenty of chances for an asteroid to fall in the ocean as 70% of the planet is just water. But, it will […]

Chennai: Veterinarians from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) removed 52 kg of plastics from a cow’s stomach.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said InSight is on a strategic move to assist, “the Mole,” its heat probe. The Mole is a heat probe designed by NASA and packed with the InSight rover to study the interiors of Mars. The InSight was programmed to use Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport mission to investigate the deep interiors of the red planet. The heat probe named, “Mole,” was the most crucial self hammering tech attached to InSight by NASA. Following the protocol, the Mole started to bury itself into the Martian soil from February 2019. The equipment was designed to dig up to 16 feet. However, the Mole managed to submerge only a part of itself since then. NASA pushed InSight’s arm to help its heat probe last week. As reported by the InSight team, the probe dug another 2 centimeters with the help of the rover’s arms. As reported by NASA, the probe needs friction from its surroundings. Hopefully, InSight’s robotic arm came in to provide friction with the “pinning” […]

California: Caltech’s geophysics assistant professor, Zachary Ross, said in his recent study, they have never found this dormant fault moving for the past 500 years. It is a significant fault in California, running directly under Los Angeles, which is capable of making unimaginable violent tremors. California Institue of Technology found that the Garlock Fault, which once considered as dormant, has just slipped .8 inches following the aftershocks of July earthquakes. On July 4 and 5 this year, California had experienced a violent shock that was not like any others that happened in the past two decades. NASA’ Jet Propulsion Laboratory has recorded around 110,000 aftershocks following the mainshock. That earthquake, which hit Ridgecrust dessert town, had sent ruptures to the interconnected faults under the state. According to Ross, they can’t understand what does the recent slip of Garlock meant. He feels that a major one that is yet to occur in the future may be from the interconnected faults that could be a complex one even to predict. The USGS […]