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A Massive Study of Nearly Every Glacier on Earth Just Revealed a Devastating Trend NICOLETTA LANESE, LIVE SCIENCE 29 APRIL 2021 Earths glaciers are shrinking, and in the past 20 years, the rate of shrinkage has steadily sped up, according to a new study of nearly every glacier on the planet. Glaciers mostly lose mass through ice melt, but they also shrink due to other processes, such as sublimation, where water evaporates directly from the ice, and calving, where large chunks of ice break ...

Mars first flight unlocked and 5 other top space and science stories this week CNN 1 hr ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN © NASA NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19. Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moons surface in 1969, it became a defining moment for the space age. For the first time, humans truly explored beyond their home -- and it wont be the la...

Japan tsunami: Smoke billowing from the damaged Fukishima nuclear power plant (Image: GETTY) READ MORE According to NASA, the tsunami pulled the Japanese coast with walls of water between five and 10m in height. In Miyako, a city in the Iwate Prefecture, the tsunamis highest elevation upland from the shore reached more than 130ft (40.5m) above sea level. Near Sendai in Tohoku, waters rushed as far as 3.7 miles (6km) inland. The tremor was so powerful, it shifted Japan by about eight feet (2.4m)...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentines Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gu...

NASAs Retro-pop Image of Anti-Atlas Mountains on Instagram is a Work of Art FOLLOW US ON: Instagram followers of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were in for some retro pop art treat on Thursday. The American space agency shared an infrared image of the Anti-Atlas mountains situated above 708 kilometres in southwest Morocco. The infrared image captured the mountain range in some popping bright colours that are otherwise invisible to the human eye. Captioning the image, NASA ...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 2/5/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The European Space Agencys Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this chilly photo of New York City on Feb. 4, 2021 showing the city blanketed in snow. This recent snow storm was classified as "major" and affected a majority of the Northeast United States, with New York declaring a state of emergency for both the immense snowfall and blistering winds. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an Ear...

In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.

NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning stellar markings in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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