• Jan 28, 2021 Mark Duggan
The administration is putting the brakes on new oil and gas leases on public lands. The move is being met with cheers from conservation groups and legal threats from the fossil fuels industry. We look at what it means for one large drilling proposal in the mountains east of Bayfield.
7 JANUARY 2021
The planets of the Solar System look a lot like a family. Jupiter s the bossy dad, keeping everyone in line. Uranus and Neptune are the cool twins who only hang out with each other. Earth is the super-nerd try-hard. Pluto is the black sheep. And Mercury has a tail.
Yep. Almost like a big ol comet, tail streaming millions of kilometres away from the planet, glowing with faint orange-yellow light.
It s all thanks to the planet s position: Mercury is the innermost planet in our Solar System. It s less than half the distance from our star than Earth, an average distance of 58 million kilometres (36 million miles).