Ecology News | Ecology News – Ecology Information

space exploration

05/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA releases new video of Jupiter’s monster polar storms

The Great Red Spot isn’t the only super storm on Jupiter. The gas giant’s north and south poles host colossal cyclones that dwarf the biggest ones ever seen on Earth. As seen in a new video released by NASA, these swirling storms dominate the polar regions of the planet, according to an article on Science.com. The material […]

03/27/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

We’ve already begun trashing the moon: A summary of what’s been left up there

Humanity may not be living on the moon just yet, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t left a mark on its surface. Or marks, if you will – about 400,000 pounds of it. That number is the estimated, collective weight of all the human trash that’s accumulated on the face of Earth’s satellite. Shocking as […]

03/12/2018 / By David Williams

Why did Mars dry out? NASA space telescope reveals insights

Despite being the subject of numerous research studies conducted over the years, the planet Mars still holds many mysteries. One such mystery is why it is now a barren wasteland when there is evidence that it could have had plenty of water on it at some point in the past. In order to figure out […]

01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Man-made meteor: New estimates put China’s doomed space station, with toxic chemicals on board, crash landing back to Earth in about 3 months — with many toxins surviving re-entry

In 2016, the Chinese Space Agency conceded that it had lost contact and control of the Tiagong-1, China’s first prototype space station. Officials hypothesized that reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere would occur sometime in 2017. Now, it has been estimated that the Tiagong-1 — which means “Heavenly Place — will finally crash into the earth […]

12/15/2017 / By Rita Winters

A look at how life ebbs and flows on our planet, from space

As their name defines their work, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) monitors space, searching for signs of life on other planets (in other galaxies), and discovers something new about our universe daily. But did you know that this agency also helps scientists understand our own planet? With high-tech satellites that capture images from […]

1 of 1