The saga of Peregrine is coming to a tragic end, with the lunar lander scheduled for reentry through Earth’s atmosphere after failing to touch down on the Moon. China’s Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon After 10 days of journeying through space, Astrobotic has positioned its lunar lander on a trajectory towards Earth to … Read more
Astrobotic’s lunar lander will be reentering Earth’s atmosphere over a remote part of the South Pacific Ocean tomorrow afternoon, bringing to a close the failed moon landing mission. The Peregrine lunar lander is expected to reenter around 4PM EST over an unpopulated stretch of ocean near Fiji, according to coordinates Astrobotic posted in a Wednesday … Read more
Humans suck water from the ground quickly enough to move Earth’s axis, a new study said. What’s happening? Between 1993 and 2010, the tilt of the Earth shifted by 31.5 inches, corresponding with people’s worldwide withdrawals of underground water. Researchers published the findings in June in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Based on prior research, … Read more
HANOI (Reuters) -Police in Vietnam have arrested six people accused of violating mining regulations, including the chairman of a company at the heart of efforts to develop Vietnam’s rare earth industry, seizing 13,715 tons of rare earths ores. Among those arrested was Luu Anh Tuan, chairman of Vietnam Rare Earth JSC (VTRE), who was accused … Read more
According to a new “holy grail” scientific discovery, the blazing-hot ball of metal at the center of the Earth’s core is actually more active than one might think. In fact, it might be host to a centra-planet molecular dinner party. Using machine learning and a supercomputer, physicists at the University of Texas at Austin and … Read more
By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam plans to restart its biggest rare-earths mine next year with a Western-backed project that could rival the world’s largest, according to two companies involved, as part of a broader push to dent China’s dominance in a sector that helps power advanced technologies. The move would … Read more
Katherine Tai, United States Commerce Consultant, speaks in the course of the Senate Finance Committee Listening to on the President’s 2023 Commerce Coverage Agenda on the U.S. Capitol on March 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. China Information Service | China Information Service | Getty Photographs China’s dominance in uncommon earths makes U.S. provide chains susceptible, … Read more
A dense rainforest or different verdant terrestrial vegetation could also be what first involves thoughts on the point out of photosynthesis. But the clouds of phytoplankton that fill the oceans are the key drivers of that course of in nature. The plantlike single-celled aquatic microbes generate greater than 50 p.c of the oxygen within the … Read more