Claim: A NASA photo authentically shows “otherworldly wreckage” on Mars. Rating: Rating: Miscaptioned Context: While the photograph is genuine, what it shows is the NASA lander’s aeroshell (heat-shielded protective shell) – initially launched from Earth – and not “otherwordly wreckage,” as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. A phenomenon described by some as “otherworldy […]
Sunny Side Up The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun’s roiling surface, taken by its Solar Orbiter last year from a front-row vantage point. The dynamic video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star’s lower atmosphere in the form of “coronal rain,” with small eruptions of plasma dotting a […]
Quick facts Where is it? Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia [7.518881, 38.650099]. What’s in the photo? From left to right: Lake Shala, Lake Abijatta and Lake Langano. Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8. When was it taken? March 29, 2022. The trio of lakes in this striking image each have a different color thanks to […]
A bizarre other-wordly object was captured on camera by an Oklahoma family in the night sky on Monday night. A TikTok video that has amassed almost half a million views, shows a bright, slow-moving object in the sky. Steve Aragona was outside with his kids and his neighbours when the video was captured on Monday […]