Category: Earth

Van Allen Belt

September 27, 2021

The Van Allen Belt is an atmosphere in which high-energy charged particles are blocked by our Earth’s magnetic field. The radiation belt was discovered in 1958 by James van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa (USA).What are particles?The Van Allen belt has an outer belt and an inner belt .The outer belt is…

Spotted Lake

September 26, 2021

In winter and spring, the lake located northwest of Osoyoos in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley looks just like any other body of water. But as most of the water starts to evaporate in summer, hundreds of huge briny pools are left behind, leaving a polka-dotted landscape of yellow, green and blue spots. The CBC calls…

No one knew. A giant asteroid passed close to Earth

September 26, 2021

A giant asteroid the size of a 32-story building passed close to Earth last week. None of the world’s leading astronomical, astronomical, and astronomical observatories, including NASA, have been able to detect it. It could not be detected by intense sunlight. The asteroid passed half the distance between the Earth and the Moon above ground…

BURAN – Soviet space shuttle that flew only once.

September 26, 2021

The Buran Project was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1980 in response to the US space program. The Soviet Union spent about 20 billion rubles (275 million) on it. Construction of the Buran spacecraft began in 1980, and by 1984 the first full scale orbiter had been released. The Buran spacecraft was launched in…

Why is the moon so red?

September 26, 2021

A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth comes between the moon and the sun and no sunlight reaches the moon. This phenomenon occurs on full moon days. But not every full moon has a lunar eclipse because the Earth has a 5 degree inclination between the path of the Sun and the path of the…

Armoured dinosaur fossil found in africa

September 25, 2021

Strange dinosaur fossil with 168 million years old shell-like thorns found in Africa / bizzare armoured spike fossil . Ankylosaur dinosaur / Ankylosaur / fossil, millions of years old and strange, found in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Such fossils are found in Africa. Researchers believe that this is a new dinosaur species. It…

Leonid meteor shower

September 25, 2021

The meteorite is named Leonid because it appears to be a meteorite rising from the constellation Leo. . It is one of the most famous meteorites in the world. This meteorite appears in the vast sky at 100 to 200 meteors each year, with 15 to 20 meteors falling on Earth every hour. The Leonid…

The Seed Bank

September 23, 2021

At the far north pole, there is the ark of Noah, which kept the seeds for the people of that time, even though all the crops on earth were destroyed. Global Seed Vault under the Global Crop Diversity Trust, also known as the Crop Trust. Institutions in different countries have stored the seeds there. Global…

Earth – 300

September 23, 2021

A surprise is about to set in. The Earth 300 is more than just a luxury ship, the Earth 300 is a movable laboratory complex. The boat will have a crew of 450 people, including 22 labs, scientists from various disciplines, environmental activists and a handful of wealthy tourists and staff. Only 40 tourists will…