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'Mars Could Have Supported Life': NASA Suggests Red Planet Was Habitable
These results also inform scientists' decisions as they work to find answers to questions concerning the possibility of life on Mars . Watch it live at 2 p.m. The fluctuations in methane were observed over three Mars years (roughly six Earth years) by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars ( SAM) instruments .
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Oceans will have more plastic than fish by 2050 - United Nations chief
This leaves only landfill, oceans and waterways as the resting place for the world´s plastic trash, where it takes thousands of years to decompose. The plastic pollution can be beaten only when awareness is generated at a mass level, he said.
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SpaceX prepares for Monday launch of SES-12 satellite
The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad, and headed east over the Atlantic Ocean. The SES satellite will be one of the company's largest. "Ironically, we need to take it apart to confirm it does not need to be taken apart". The goal of the launch is for the SES-12 spacecraft to reach geostationary orbit.
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Kootenay MP questions Trans Mountain pipeline purchase
That $15.7-billion, proposed TransCanada pipeline project died in October previous year. It does not intend to own the project for long. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put a lot of political capital on the project, pledging over and over again that the pipeline expansion is in national interest and will be built one way or another.
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Alberto weakens to depression, but threat remains
Alberto made landfall near the Florida Panhandle on Monday and will continue moving north, drenching Alabama. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the two died due to storm-related conditions. TVA is not anticipating major power outages as the storm moves north, although local distributors could face some electrical delivery problems and flash floods.
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Moonwalking astronaut-artist Alan Bean dies at 86
He made his first voyage into space on November 14, 1969, four months after the historic first landing on the moon of Apollo 11, commanded by Neil Armstrong . Fellow astronaut Harrison Schmitt called Bean " one of the great renaissance men of his generation - engineer, fighter pilot, astronaut and artist".