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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1296/ Scientists are baffled after discovering a bizarre rock on Mars that’s like NOTHING they’ve ever seen #dailymail #Earth #Mars #Nasa #Science #sciencetech #UK #UnitedKingdom

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Scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are arguing that the massive and mysterious tubelike fossils known as "prototaxites" deserve their own life form classification because, basically, they're too weird to belong to any other. @Futurism has more, including why prototaxites have long been a head-scratcher and a point of contention for scientists who to this day cannot figure out their nature:

https://flip.it/V6vZpG

Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Away to Reveal a Never-Before-Seen Ecosystem

https://www.sciencealert.com/antarctic-iceberg-breaks-away-to-reveal-a-never-before-seen-ecosystem

A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland
* Image Credit & Copyright: Wioleta Gorecka
https://www.instagram.com/wiola.gorecka/

Explanation:
What if the Sun and Moon rose together? That happened yesterday over some northern parts of planet Earth as a partial solar eclipse occurred shortly after sunrise. Regions that experienced the Moon blocking part of the Sun included northeastern parts of North America and northwestern parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The featured image was captured yesterday over the Grábrók volcanic crater in Iceland where much of the Sun became momentarily hidden behind the Moon. The image was taken through a cloudy sky but so well planned that the photographer's friend appeared to be pulling the Sun out from behind the Moon. No part of the Earth experienced a total solar eclipse this time. In the distant past, some of humanity was so surprised when an eclipse occurred that ongoing battles suddenly stopped. Today, eclipses are not a surprise and are predicted with an accuracy of seconds.
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/mar-29-2025-eclipse/
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/types/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_of_Thales
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240310.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/accuracy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxIPyR6-bko

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250330.html

#Scientists may have discovered how to extract #power from the rotation of #Earth. If the technique provided for all #electricity needs of our #world, it would slow the planet’s spin by 7 milliseconds over the next century.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-earths-rotation-be-a-power-source-physicists-debate-bold-new-idea/

NASA is keeping an eye on a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: “a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa,” writes Peter Dockrill. While it doesn’t have much impact to life on this planet, NASA likens it to a kind of “pothole in space” that can create a headache for orbital spacecraft like the International Space Station. Read more from @ScienceAlert:

https://flip.it/NaOqHX

NOAA's new GOES-19 satellite continuously monitors solar activity, to protect satellites, communications & electrical systems. (It also regularly catches the Earth & Moon photobombing its view of the Sun.)

One small example of what NOAA funding does...

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaas-latest-goes-satellite-releases-new-publicly-available-coronagraph-data #space #science #tech #earth

There's a partial solar #eclipse tomorrow! The #Moon will slip between #Earth and the #Sun, casting its shadow over us

To get in the spirit, let’s take a (very) close peek at our cosmic neighbour, with its crater-covered surface. And, sadly, no cheese in sight

This image was captured in early January through the Nasmyth A focus of the UT1 telescope at our Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile

Abigail Frost

APOD from 2025-03-28

#Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

The #Moon's dustiness is due to constant micrometeorite impacts creating a fine soil, problematic for Apollo 17 astronauts who repaired their rover with maps and duct tape to manage the dust.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250328.html#space #astronomy #earth #eclipse

My son recently launched a #WeatherBalloon with a #camera and some instruments. This #photo is from about 30km up just before the #balloon burst. It's really cool that you can begin to see the curvature of the #Earth from this height and see the darkness of #space. I was on an airliner in this area on the same day and saw some of the same clouds and frozen rivers & lakes my son captured in his photos.

It was once thought that aliens would attack and destroy us then take over planet Earth.

Now the thinking seems to be that the aliens are biding their time waiting for us to destroy ourselves first.

I was going to ask the #Earth #Observation community, including @EOMasters, if there were good online resources to access and process #DigitalElevationModel (DEM) data.

But just found out that my ace colleague @LukeDataManager had done a detailed workflow and published it online.

https://nordatanet.github.io/Exploring_FAIR_data_with_Python/Global_and_regional_bathymetry.html

Note to self: be more like Luke and publish my workflows

APOD from 2025-03-25

A Blue Banded Blood #Moon

During a #lunar #eclipse, a blue band can appear on the Moon due to sunlight passing high through #Earth's atmosphere, where ozone absorbs red light more than blue. This effect, enhanced in a processed HDR image from Oklahoma, contrasts with the red "blood Moon" lit by sunsets-filtered light in Earth's shadow.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250325.html#space #astronomy

A "potentially hazardous" pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as it reaches its closest point to our planet in more than 100 years. But the hefty space rock poses zero risk of hitting us now or in the future, data shows. @LiveScience
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/potentially-hazardous-pyramid-size-asteroid-will-make-its-closest-flyby-of-earth-for-more-than-100-years-this-wednesday

Comment by March 27 on EPA attempt to roll back NEPA regs. Info https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHgftoSglTg/?igsh=dmUxanpvc3l3dTB6.
Submit a comment in your own words opposing this proposal on the Portal.
Include agency name “Council on Environmental Quality” + docket # CEQ-2025-0002.
“Removing NEPA protections endangers public health and our planet.
I oppose this proposal and demand NEPA’s protections remain in place.”

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations
#NEPA #Environment #EPA #SpeakUp #ClimateCrisis #air #water #health #Earth #nature #Federal

Juvenile Hawaiian Hogfish at an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

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