Measurements from land-based instruments and airplane-mounted radars in Greenland’s far northeast reveal the extent of ice loss experienced by the 79° N-Glacier. The Alfred Wegener Institute’s findings indicate that the glacier’s thickness has reduced by over 160 meters since 1998...
#climatechange #globalwarming #greenland #thawing #glaciers #glaciology #ClimateCrisis #climate #climatescience https://scitechdaily.com/160-meter-thaw-scientists-uncover-enormous-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier/
NASA chose Jezero Crater as Perseverance's landing site because the entire region was flooded in the ancient past. If the conditions for life were present at any time on Mars, this would be the place. Geologists are extremely excited about the rover's latest find, a rock containing elements made in water. These minerals preserve a history of the habitability of Mars, even trapping its atmosphere. If ancient biosignatures are available, they'll be in a rock like this.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rock-sampled-by-nasas-perseverance-embodies-why-rover-came-to-mars
Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart
Asimov's first Foundation novel has a wonderful scene that I think prefigures the LLM arms race we're going through at the moment. A bunch of characters are using formal mathematical tools to analyse the meaning of verbose and seemingly eloquent political statements:
"That," replied Hardin, "is the interesting thing. The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Hoik, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out."
Wait WHAT?! A user made a mandelbrot viewer using Hoot, Spritely's Scheme->WASM toolkit! https://github.com/nanomonkey/hoot-mandelbrot
It works!
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The 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly continues to tick upward...
Graphic from https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/