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Those underground 'lakes' on Mars are getting more and more mysterious, study shows
In 2018, scientists made a discovery that could change our understanding of Mars, the dusty, dry red ball. Radar signals reflected from just below the planet's surface showed a shiny patch, exactly the same as a subsurface pool of liquid water. Subsequent searches uncovered more shiny patches, indicative of an entire network of subterranean lakes.
By sondra mallen3 years ago in Earth
What are cosmic rays? What are the dangers to people?
Cosmic rays exist almost anywhere in the universe, even on our planet. It is a stream of high-energy particles from space, consisting mostly of individual protons and nuclei of elements, but also electrons and photons, neutrinos, etc.
By Su Wei Li3 years ago in Earth
What is faster than the speed of light?
What is a wormhole that can reach the edge of the universe in an instant? According to Einstein's theory, the speed of light, which is about 300,000 kilometers per second, is the limit of speed in our universe, and no matter how much mass can reach the speed of light, it can only be infinitely close to the speed of light, which means that all of our technology is limited to the speed of light. The development of the upper limit, that is, the spacecraft we have made, no matter how fast can not reach the speed of light, and the inability to reach the speed of light has given rise to a new problem - interstellar travel.
By Lu Da3 years ago in Earth
The Moon has a new crater or two
A rocket body impacted the Moon on 04 March 2022 near Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater roughly 28 meters wide in the longest dimension. LROC NAC M1407760984R enlarged 3x [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
By Jim DeLillo3 years ago in Earth
The world's shortest life expectancy of 10 animals, the shortest only 5 minutes of life
Do you know what is the longest-lived animal in the world? Some people may answer the tortoise. The answer is not true. To compare who lives the longest, the turtle is certainly no match for the Greenland shark. Because the average life expectancy of Greenland sharks is 400 years! It's worth mentioning that they are looking for a date with someone over 150 years old. The longest-living Greenland shark is known to have lived 512 years. 512 years ago, China was still the Ming Dynasty ......
By Bar wall3 years ago in Earth
If large carnivores go extinct, must the ecosystem collapse?
Either because of their large size or because humans are at the top of the food chain, we pay more attention to large carnivores that are also higher up the food chain. As a result, we subconsciously believe that large carnivores are more important in the ecosystem than small, herbivorous animals. One cannot help but wonder if the ecological balance will be upset if large carnivores become extinct, and if the ecosystem will eventually become irreparable and collapse.
By Milton Braganza3 years ago in Earth
5 kinds of "tired flowers".
In the high-temperature season, many succulent plants will choose to dormant, but some flowering plants will do the opposite, one not only opens happily, and the growth is also quite vigorous.
By Mcgrotha Brinker3 years ago in Earth
How did mankind come to be? Understanding human origins in one breath
How did mankind come to be? I believe that different people have different ideas, different disciplines have given answers, and different ancient civilizations have their myths. This time let's talk about how paleoanthropology, which specializes in this issue, really sees this question.
By Madison Hart3 years ago in Earth
Why is the silly and unreturnable tilapia not extinct by now?
The silly fish living in the sea, even if the predator nibbles, there is no way to escape, so silly and no power to fight back fish, why is not extinct until now? This fish is called a tilapia, it is slowly moving forward in the water, a seal in its vicinity, slowly approaching the tilapia, after seeing the right moment, the tilapia is a bite, directly biting out a defect, the tilapia can only silently bear, the predator's attack, without the power to fight back, become a "walking buffet ".
By Milton Braganza3 years ago in Earth
The "Marvel animals" on Earth, some immortal, some can survive in the universe!
Focus on nature, one of the most interesting places is the wide variety of animals and plants in nature, often brings a sense of eye-opening, so you know that although humans are very powerful on earth, but not the strongest species, in some ways humans are far from other animals, and this is where humans will always have to learn.
By Aliser3 years ago in Earth
What is hidden under the Earth's permafrost? Scientists seriously warned that no one is allowed to dig
There are many permafrost layers on Earth, such as the Siberian region of Russia, northern Canada, the Alaskan region of the United States, the Arctic Circle, and China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is distributed in the permafrost zone, then this permafrost, what is hidden under it? In this regard, scientists issued a serious warning, no one is allowed to dig, because there is a hell, and may even lead to the complete extinction of mankind, why the permafrost layer under the tundra will be so terrible?
By Derwall Don3 years ago in Earth
230 pilot whales stranded, half are dead, or produce whale explosion! How scary is the whale explosion scene?
About 230 pilot whales were stranded on the beach near the entrance to Port Macquarie, Australia, and the relevant departments rushed to the scene to work together to rescue them, but the local government department introduced that half of the stranded pilot whales have died.
By Mark Rovich3 years ago in Earth