Bear on the moon, Moss vs. Bezos, and how Venus is now hell in space

He has posted a version of this before as space-time Newsletter published on August 10, is now wearing on the moon. Not exactly. They are small bear just half a millimeter long, but there are. And oh yes, they can live. The bears are there actually tardigrade a bit ‘like worms, insects, a little’ how to end with a fatty, segmented body and eight legs in tiny claws. Find out in 1773 by a German zoologist who nicknames LITTLE WASSERBAR or “little water bears,” I am so are a bit ‘anywhere in the world, that they may live a little’ everywhere. They are capable of temperatures up to -200 ° C in order to survive (-328 ° F) and up to 150 ° C (about 300 ° F). Shake the radiation would kill almost any other animal, and can survive for years, perhaps decades without water, withered in a dry, organic stain, and live again in a position when they are rehydrated. In February, he was cast as Israel Beresheet spacecraft to the moon, he was wearing not only scientific, but a digital library of 30 million pages of information, human DNA samples and a colony of thousands of tardigrades. Beresheet does not do much, it crashed on the moon on April 11, but the spacecraft designer announced last week that they believe that the library, DNA and tardigrades survived. The temperature on the moon varies from paralyzing cold hot sizzlingly, but remains in the region of 350 degrees Celsius tardigrades; there is no water, but the water bears do not matter; there is no air, but when they enter their state of suspended animation, however they do not breathe. Under the right circumstances, they could live healthy again. This actually is not entirely a good thing. The 1967 Treaty the United States signed on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (colloquially and compassionate as the Outer Space Treaty). expressly states that the space dedicated nations to “conduct investigations to avoid [other worlds] to their harmful contaminants.” Article IX of the Treaty mandates NASA has also set up a planetary protection office to ensure that this standard is met, it builds spacecraft in sterile environments and decontaminated prior to departure, as far as possible. This does not mean that organisms could not travel in space hitchhikers anyway. When the Apollo 12 astronauts returned from the moon in 1969, they took the camera from Surveyor 3, which had previously landed on the moon half past two years. During the ramp inspection, the camera was at home, he found a living colony of Streptococcus bacteria believed scientists had somehow survived the lunar environment, all the time. It had not, the camera was actually contaminated by scientists after his return, but it was a reminder of the bacterial risks. All Apollo 12 astronauts themselves the same, endlessly on its moon clung microorganisms organic traces of tools and other equipment that had treated their spacecraft, and then discarded on the surface. And of course there are all human waste-moon Poop her and the other five ground crews left behind. Bacteria and other organisms across this litter have long probably dead. The water bears, inert, for now, the stories do not have to tell. Photo of the week light in the room: It’s not really, and if the special sword in question, in an image captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope would be 60,000 years light of a measure. What actually displays the image, NGC 5866, a galaxy is really very, very far-it at 44 million light years from Earth in passing views. Its red color is the result of the starlight shining through the galactic dust. What we’re READING Musk Versus Bezos is difficult to take care of people about the disputes of billionaires. When David Koch enters a piece with Sergey Brin, so what? But Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are another matter. The founder of SpaceX and Blue Origin and are the two recognized leaders of the new era entrepreneurial space industry. Musk, by many measures is widely established in the head with his company as a reliable launch service, and at some point in 2020. But Blue Origin SpaceX in a much more important metric for the astronauts of the International Space Station launch preparation: the money. The head is known from a small operation like Amazon, Bezos pledged to spend up to $1 billion of its assets each year to fund its space dreams, and quartz relations has just sold nearly $3 billion shares of Amazon, the revenues of most people believe directly in space. How to say the original seven astronauts Americans use “No bucks, no Buck Rogers” Fire in the Hole NASA is almost a spectator in the moss Bezos race and remains their 2024 return-to-the-moon period. Although Bezos NASA with a lunar lander, expected that the company is now developing that the Space Launch System and Orion to build mothership Orbiter and NASA both missiles. Every good moon ship its powerful onboard engine requires and last week led the space agency a warm critical test fire of its new engine in the Fund White Sands in New Mexico test, and has published a dramatic image of the system in the workplace. The moon planned; the engine looks ready. Lovin ‘some area is 51 Face, is to hope that foreigners in Area 51, the mysterious base of the US Air Force in the Nevada desert that said the site of inexplicable acts involved both foreigners that crashed in 1947. (usually ) satirical Facebook page “Storm Area 51” (slogan: “Let’s see how Aliens”) has a new life pumped in seven decades old rumors of an invasion in September, the citizens call site 20 is the idea of foreigners in Nevada one of America seemingly unlimited supply of conspiracy theories, of course, even those that vaccines (are dangerous!), the moon landing, (they were fake!), and the birthplace of President Obama (not here! ). But Area 51 has a tack is that it is likely to maintain for a long time after the other disappeared. TIME saw what psychologists have to say about the appeal of the story, and why we can give before. Hell in space, even on the worst days of our planet earth can still look in the mirror and think, “At least I’m not Venus.” The two worlds is started more or less the same almost identical in terms of size, with similar atmospheres, both inside sun comfortably habitable zone squeezed into which water can exist in liquid state. But while the earth was a garden, Venus was an oven. Space.com offers a great entertainer-how Venus shot for you through everything Light-foot that went wrong on our sister world, there is chaos today. But if you are prone to gloat, no. The rest of the title story “and how the land is next.” Happy Birthday-Mars Barack Obama at the White House was “Call Me Maybe” was on the radio, and Jon Stewart interviewed Project Runway Tim Gunn of The Daily Show. That was August 6, 2012, the day NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Shortly after his seventh birthday Mars, Curiosity is still at work, for a total of 21 kilometers (13 miles), rising to a maximum height of 368 meters down to have (1,207 ft.) – The science all the time to do. NASA has a look at what is the Rover up to the moment when it is hunting for signs of conditions that could have once supported life in the now dry lake to explore. Their bets on the week of the MARS load the race, we asked you who you think will be the first country to Mars. Here’s what he said: Thank you for reading period written by Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large at TIME magazine, and the author of 10 books, including Apollo 13, Apollo 8:02 novels for young adults. Follow him on @jeffreykluger. We appreciate any feedback on [email protected]. Correction: The subject line of the original e-mail newsletter, due to an editing error, explained that carries on Mars. The bears are not on the moon, on Mars. We regret the error.
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