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NASA: Earth Surface Mass has deviated
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently announced that the Earth Mass has deviated in August 2020 as compared to that of 2004-09. According to NASA, the sea level increase may be due to the change in earth mass. Findings of NASA The change in earth mass is mainly caused due to land movement relative ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Antarctica • Greenland • Ground Water • Ice • NASA • Oil Production • Sea level rise
Doomsday vault warming faster than the other
Doomsday vault is a global seed reserve. With 4 months of daylight and 4 months of darkness, the place is the favourable to reserve seeds in case of apocalypse. It is built on permafrost which has several thich layers of ice harder than concrete. REcently cracks are found in the building. Scientists confirm that this ..
Topics: Climate change in the Arctic • Geography • Geomorphology • Ice • Landforms • Montane ecology • Pedology • Permafrost • Physical geography • Seed
Alan Bean, who was 4th man to walk on Moon passes away
Former US astronaut Alan Bean (86), who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has passed away in Texas, United States. Bean went into space twice, the first time in November 1969 as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 moon-landing mission. In 1973 he was commander of the second crewed flight ..
Topics: Alan Bean • Apollo 12 • Apollo Lunar Module • Extravehicular activity • Ice • In spaceflight • NASA • NASA Astronaut Group 3 • Outer space • Skylab • Spacecraft • Spaceflight
What are Avalanche Cone and Avalanche Wind?
Avalanche is a vast snow mass and ice at high altitude that has accumulated to such an extent that its own weight ‘may cause it to slide rapidly down the slope of mountains, carrying with it thousands of tons of rock. An avalanche may cause immense havoc, destroying roads, villages, forests in its way. Avalanche ..
Topics: Ice