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In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and pressure dense enough to crush a submarine — long enough to scan back two panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange-tinted sky before the heat finally ended the mission (opens the original)
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The last time a working spacecraft touched the surface of Venus was 41 years ago. The specific spacecraft was Vega 2, a Soviet probe that landed on June 15, 1985, ran experiments for 56 minutes, and stopped transmitting. Before Vega 2 there had been eight other successful Soviet Venus surface landings between 1970 and 1985, of which the most productive was Venera 13, in March 1982. Venera 13 returned two colour panoramas of a flat basaltic plain under an orange sky, drilled a soil sample and ana
Researchers studying retirement found the hardest month isn't the first — it's somewhere around the fourth, when the novelty has burned off and the structure that used to answer the question of who you are has stopped answering anything at all (opens the original)
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Everybody warns you about day one — the alarm that doesn’t ring, the office that carries on without you. But day one turns out to be wonderful. So does week six. The early months of retirement are, for most people, a genuine high. Which is exactly why the slump blindsides so many retirees when it comes. It doesn’t arrive at the beginning, when everyone’s watching for it. It arrives months in — after the congratulations have stopped, after the trip, after the garage is finally organized — on some
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth's, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice (opens the original)
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Somewhere out at Saturn, right now, it is drizzling on a shoreline. The rain is falling out of orange clouds, slowly — drifting down more like snowflakes than raindrops. It’s collecting into streams, and the streams are cutting channels through solid bedrock, and the channels are draining into a sea bigger than the Caspian. There are rounded pebbles on the ground, tumbled smooth by running liquid, exactly like the ones in any creek you’ve ever waded. This is Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and it
Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation — the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, weeks after they're back on the ground (opens the original)
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The hardest part of a six-month space mission, according to the people who’ve flown them, isn’t the launch. It isn’t the confinement, or the recycled air, or the two hundred sunrises a week. It’s the part nobody films: the weeks after landing, when the astronaut is home, healthy, celebrated — and quietly not quite there. Sitting at their own kitchen table like a guest. Walking their own street like someone reviewing footage of it. Present at their life, but a half-step outside the frame of it. T
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