From astronauts exploring Labrador to prepare for a visit to the moon, to the bubble that surrounds the Milky Way, here are some of our favourite space stories from this past season.
Chemistry professor Aimin Liu has been awarded a three-year, $495,000 Accomplishment-Based Renewal (ABR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance his research on the body's metabolic processes using an innovative method that will improve the understanding of amino acids.
"This would be like an F8 tornado sweeping across the surface. These are winds on Mars that will never be seen again unless [there is] another impact." -Peter Schultz
When you examine craters on the surfaces of worlds across the solar system, you find that there are rays emanating outward, containing a mix of ejecta from the impactor and the surface itself. But there’s a limit to how far those rays go, and that’s normally dependent on the size of the crater. In a few instances on Mars, however, those rays go much, much farther than physics would indicate.
A disabled tow boat was safely removed from a lock and dam Sunday, after the pilot lost control on the Mississippi River and crashed near Alma, Wisconsin Saturday.