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  • Renowned climate change scientist dead after falling into crevasse in Greenland

    08/12/2020 9:21:56 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 45 replies
    N Y Post ^ | August 12, 2020 | Tamar Lapin
    Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), was working near Ilulissat on Saturday when he was reported missing, police said. A rescue operation was launched, but ultimately abandoned without the 68-year-old researcher’s body being found. “We have found signs that the person fell through a crack in the glacier,” police spokesman Brian Thomsen told local newspaper Sermitsiaq. “An accident has probably occurred and it is highly probable that the person in question has passed away,” Thomsen added. Fellow scientist Kathy Riklin said it seemed a snow bridge had collapsed under Steffen, causing...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day 6-02-02

    06/01/2002 9:32:57 PM PDT · by petuniasevan · 17 replies · 316+ views
    NASA ^ | 6-02-02 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
    Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 June 2 Cracks and Ridges on Europa Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA Explanation: Which way to the interstate? What appears to be a caricature of a complex highway system on Earth is actually a system of ridges and cracks on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The distance between parallel ridges in the above photograph is typically about 1 kilometer. The complexity of the cracks and...