Le Dust Bowl (« bassin de poussière ») est une région à cheval sur l'Oklahoma, le Kansas et le Texas, touchée dans les années 1930 par la sècheresse et une série de tempêtes de poussière provoquant une catastrophe écologique et agricole. On nomme la période correspondante les Dirty Thirties.. Ces tempêtes de poussière sont issues de pratiques agricoles mécanisées, …

Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light-years (2,000–2,100 pc; 61–66 Em) from Earth. They are named so because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars …

NOAA-19, known as NOAA-N' (NOAA-N Prime) before launch, is the last of the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) series of weather satellites. NOAA-19 was launched on 6 February 2009. NOAA-19 is in an afternoon Sun-synchronous orbit and is intended to replace NOAA-18 as the prime afternoon spacecraft.

The Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the UK. Boeing began flight testing the X-48B version for NASA in 2007. The X-48B was later modified into the X-48C version, which was …

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.It was first built to support the Voyager missions and is now the US national facility for infrared astronomy, providing continued support to planetary, solar neighborhood, and deep space applications.

Geplante Mondlandungen. Für die 2020er Jahre planen unter anderem Indien, Südkorea und Japan sowie Privatunternehmen aus mehreren Ländern unbemannte Mondlandungen.. In den USA ist mit dem Artemis-Programm der NASA ein Nachfolgeprojekt zu Apollo in Vorbereitung, das unter optimistischen Annahmen eine erste Landung für 2024 mit der Mission Artemis 3 …

The Río Tinto (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈtinto], red river or Tinto River) is a river in southwestern Spain that rises in the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalusia.It flows generally south-southwest, reaching the Gulf of Cádiz at Huelva.The Rio Tinto river has a unique red and orange colour derived from its chemical makeup that is extremely acidic and with very high …

The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.According to its statutes, it is awarded "for significant achievement or service during individual participation as a civilian or military astronaut, pilot, mission specialist, payload specialist, or other space flight participant in a space flight mission."

In video games, Elden Ring wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards. American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (pictured) are freed via a prisoner exchange.; In Germany, 25 members of a far-right group are arrested in connection with a coup d'état plot.; Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider are elected to the Federal Council, …

The United States Astronaut Badge is a badge of the United States, awarded to military and civilian personnel who have completed training and performed a successful spaceflight.A variation of the astronaut badge is also issued to civilians who are employed with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as specialists on spaceflight missions. It is the least-awarded …

Charles Frank „Charlie“ Bolden junior (* 19.August 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer NASA-Astronaut und Generalmajor der Marineinfanterie.Von Juli 2009 bis Januar 2017 war er Administrator der NASA

ジェット推進研究所（ジェットすいしんけんきゅうじょ、英語: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: JPL）は、NASAの無人探査機等の研究開発及び運用に携わる研究所。 アメリカ合衆国 カリフォルニア州 パサデナにある 。 JPLの前身となったカリフォルニア工科大学のグッゲンハイム航空研究所 (GALCIT) のロケット ...

Découverte et historique. L'existence de la couche d'ozone a été démontrée en 1913 par les physiciens français Henri Buisson et Charles Fabry grâce à leur interféromètre optique.Cet ozone est produit par l'action des UV, du rayonnement solaire, sur les molécules de dioxygène à haute altitude [N 1]. Sydney Chapman propose le mécanisme de formation en 1930.

Deep Impact is a 1998 American science-fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by …