Image Credit: Pixabay Now that December is here and the weather is truly wintery, if you haven’t already optimized your car for snow and ice, you certainly need to be getting on with it now. Driving in winter is ...
Explaining Hole-Punch Clouds
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado have discovered how airplanes create hole-punch clouds when flying under specific atmospheric conditions and how their creation can temporarily change local weather conditions. These clouds – so called ...
Mars’ soil is like Antarctica’s
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander scraped the icy soil of the “Wonderland” area on June 26, confirming that subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. Now, Phoenix scientists are assured they have a completed the soil-layer ...