New Study Says Earth Once Had Green Oceans
A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...
NASA's famous 'day the Earth smiled' photo captured rare glimpse of our planet
Nasa recently remembered a famous image of Earth as a mere pale blue dot in the distance. The famous photograph was taken in ...
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The Pale Blue Dot At 35: The Making Of An Iconic Photo
Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...
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In His Final Interview, Carl Sagan Warned That Someone Just Like Trump Could Take Over America
Beloved astronomer Carl Sagan made a prescient prediction about a populist "charlatan" that seems to have come true decades ...
Earth’s Oceans Were Green a Billion Years Ago. They Could Soon Be Green Again.
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...
‘Consider again that dot’: How NASA's Voyager and Carl Sagan showed us Earth like never before
In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.
You’ll be able to see Mercury, Saturn together in the night sky next week
Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...
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Pale Blue Dot: The iconic Valentine's Day photo of Earth turns 35 today — and you're probably in it
On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
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Carl Sagan Center
The Carl Sagan Center for Research (CSC) brings together all the scientific research at the SETI Institute. Home to more than 75 scientists, the CSC conducts grant-funded research across nearly all ...
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Interview With Carl Sagan
SAGAN: I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life, and especially extraterrestrial intelligence from childhood. It swept me up, and I've been involved in sending space ...
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This Is What a Martian Looks Like—According to Carl Sagan
This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...