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Atmospheric Turbulence
Atmospheric Turbulence: a small-scale, irregular air motions characterized by winds that vary in speed and direction. Turbulence is important because it mixes and churns the atmosphere and causes water vapour, smoke, and other substances, as well as energy, to become distributed both vertically and horizontally.
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JAN 23, 2019Space & Astronomy
Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned commercial aerospace company, achieved a significant milestone on Wednesday after succ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 23, 2019Space & Astronomy
If you were one of the millions of avid stargazers who prepared their binoculars and telescopes to observe this past wee ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 22, 2019Space & Astronomy
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Chemical burn rockets can produce a lot of thrust, but only for a short period; this makes them ideal for lofting space ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 13, 2019Space & Astronomy
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One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 13, 2017Chemistry & Physics
The low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma jet in action. Credit: Amanda Lietz Plasma, the fourth state of matter, ...Written By: Daniel DuanAUG 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
Earth and Venus share a lot of qualities with one another, but there are some striking differences that set the two plan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 07, 2017Earth & The Environment
Last night I was shaken out of my superficial sleep with a jolt. The meaty hands of the man behind me grasped my chair t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery. We know it’s a massive gassy planet, but lots of astronomers believe that deep do ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 22, 2016Chemistry & Physics
Fish and birds, when moving in groups, use two “gears”—one slow and another fast—in ways that co ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)DEC 19, 2013Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its latest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), in June of 2013 to improve ...
JAN 23, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned commercial aerospace company, achieved a significant milestone on Wednesday after succ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 23, 2019
Space & Astronomy
If you were one of the millions of avid stargazers who prepared their binoculars and telescopes to observe this past wee
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 22, 2019
Space & Astronomy
It’s been a while since NASA sent astronauts to the Moon – more than four decades, in fact. But that doesn&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 21, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Saturn’s planetary rings have been receiving a lot of attention from astronomers as of late, not just because they
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 20, 2019
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft executed a suicidal death plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, but years&rsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 14, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Chemical burn rockets can produce a lot of thrust, but only for a short period; this makes them ideal for lofting space
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 13, 2019
Space & Astronomy
On Friday, SpaceX lofted a total of 10 Iridium satellites into space with a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 23, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Following a bevy of unforeseen delays, SpaceX officially launched its GPS III SV01 mission from Space Launch Complex 40
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Only a handful of worlds in the solar system sport planetary rings, but Saturn’s are the most robust. You’ve
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
In a recent press release, NASA reported that when traveling across the arctic circle its long duration balloon mission,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 25, 2018
Videos
Lightning frequently strikes airplanes as they fly through the clouds thousands of feet above the Earth’s surface,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
The low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma jet in action. Credit: Amanda Lietz Plasma, the fourth state of matter,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Earth and Venus share a lot of qualities with one another, but there are some striking differences that set the two plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Last night I was shaken out of my superficial sleep with a jolt. The meaty hands of the man behind me grasped my chair t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery. We know it’s a massive gassy planet, but lots of astronomers believe that deep do
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 22, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Fish and birds, when moving in groups, use two “gears”—one slow and another fast—in ways that co
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 19, 2013
Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its latest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), in June of 2013 to improve
...