The Science of the Red Planet
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Latest in the Red Rising series, Dark Age tells the story of a New Roman Empire, complete with slaves and Norse pantheon-worshiping barbarians. This new empire is spread across the Solar System and it is in the midst of a civil war. The setting for all this is a terraformed Mercury. I did not particularly like this book, as a whole, but I did like it when they mentioned Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus. It is heresy for an archaeologist, despite popular belief, to like dinosaurs but who cares?
Terraformed: making a planet habitable for Earth life
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The Juno orbiter around Jupiter has discovered the gas giant has a fuzzy core half the planet's radius in size. This could have been from a collision with a Uranus-sized object.
Gas Giant: A giant planet made mostly of gas with no solid surface. The Mars Express orbiter has taken new images on the Martian crater Terra Cimmeria, showing features made by wind and, in the past, water.
The Mars InSight lander moved a rock during its descent to the surface of Mars called by the Mars InSight team "Rolling Stones Rock" after the famous rock group.
About 320 light-years from Earth, scientists have found a young planet with three suns. It orbits all three stars in a period of 550 Earth-years. The planet was found by ESO's Very Large telescope in Chile.
ESO: European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere There's a triplet of planets between about 1.4 to 1.8 times the mass of Earth orbiting a red dwarf star every three to 13 days about 12 light-years from Earth. The planets were found by using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher instrument at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Scientists at NASA are planning to send an orbiter probe to Pluto to solve mysteries that the recent New Horizons fly-by couldn't solve.
This book is a thrill to read. It describes the history of eclipses from promoting fear in ancient times to their contributions to the study of astronomy. It also describes the various types of eclipses.
Scientists have detected another comet from another solar system. The first detected interstellar comet was called Oumuamua.
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