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NASA's Curiosity rover snapped the first clear picture of Sun rays on Mars, which looks like a ghostly white-tinged sunset.The rover took the ethereal photo on February 2, as the Sun set behind a group of twilight clouds. These clouds hang at an unusually high altitude, which suggests they are probably made of carbon dioxide ice – also known as dry ice.NASA released the eerie image on Monday.A sunset on Mars captured by the Curiosity rover. (NASA)The Sun's rays shine through the alien clouds, illuminating them with muted…

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured first-ever "sun rays" on Mars, the US space agency said.The rays were imaged as the Sun descended over the horizon on February 2, with "rays of light illuminated a bank of clouds".These are also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for "twilight"."It was the first time sun rays have been so clearly viewed on Mars," according to the mission officials.Curiosity captured the scene during the rover's latest twilight cloud survey, which began in January and will wrap up in…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these “sun rays” shining through clouds at sunset on February 2, 2023, the 3,730th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It was the first time that sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSThe veteran Martian rover captured a dazzling sunset at the start of a new cloud-imaging campaign.Although Martian sunsets are uniquely moody, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…

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A recommendation from Oprah is enough to launch any book into the bestsellers list, but it still can’t explain why one 1999 work of Black feminist thought has recently become the designated emotional handbook of the heartbroken. If you’ve not read All About Love by bell hooks, you’ve probably had it recommended to you – or at least seen extracts on Instagram accounts like @savedbythebellhooks, where stills from the 90s teen show Saved By the Bell are matched with lengthy quotes on patriarchal masculinity and revolutionary…

Researchers claim that life on Earth could have been sparked by a combination of meteorite strikes and gamma rays. Check the details now. The space agencies across the world have peered deep into space to find another planet where life flourishes and so far we have found nothing. One reason behind it could be that the conditions required to create and sustain life are so rare that it is incredibly difficult to find a similar planet. And this is why scientists have always been fascinated by the question of how life…

In order to grow big and strong, plants require the red and blue light that are part of the visible "white" light produced by the sun. Scientists have now developed a plant-boosting film, that converts the sun's UV light into more red light.First of all, don't plants need ultraviolet light? While some studies suggest that exposure to it may boost the flavors and scents of certain plants, the overall consensus is that UV light is not necessary for plant growth. In fact, as is the case with humans and other animals,…

Shady Rays, a Kentucky-based independent sunglasses company, will open the doors of its first Colorado brick-and-mortar store in Lone Tree in November. The location at 8401 Park Meadows Center Dr. on the second floor of the Park Meadows shopping mall is set to service shoppers ahead of Black Friday shopping. It will be the brand’s second retail space. “Our Denver customer-base is strong and their affinity for Shady Rays is evident in their interests in both our sunglasses and snow goggle collections,” said CEO Chris…

A gamma-ray trickster has just been found in the vicinity of the Milky Way.Energetic radiation previously associated with structures erupting from the Milky Way galactic center called the Fermi bubbles actually seems to instead be coming from something more distant.The origins are instead thought to be millisecond pulsars in a small dwarf galaxy orbiting our own.The discovery has implications for our understanding of the Fermi bubbles, but it also could have an impact on broader areas of research, such as the search for…

Gamma rays from this supernova remnant have been seen by telescopes since 2007, but exceptionally energetic light wasn’t detected until 2020, when it was picked up by the HAWC Observatory in Mexico, piquing the interest of scientists hunting for galactic PeVatrons. When gamma rays reach our atmosphere, they can produce showers of charged particles that can be measured by telescopes on the ground. With data from HAWC, scientists were able to work backward and determine that these showers came from gamma rays emanating from…