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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Earth

A NASA spacecraft beams images of an asteroid to crew on the ground, before striking the asteroid 7 million miles from Earth, September 26, 2022. (Screenshot)
September 26, 2022, 10:00 pm
NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in first ever test of planetary defense
Space agency aims to alter orbit of rock by smashing craft, known as DART, into its surface, in venture hitherto only attempted in science fiction
By Agencies
Illustrative image: World map, with blank continents and countries against a blue background (iStock via Getty Images)
March 7, 2022, 6:08 pm
Israeli academic’s time travel adventure in Earth’s crust may explain world’s layout
Prof. Roi Granot and Dutch scientists outline a theory of chain reactions in tectonic plates that they say determined the appearance of the world as we know it
By Nathan Jeffay
Artist Beverly Barkat working on her latest work, 'Earth Poetica,' at the Jerusalem aquarium starting on February 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Leopold Chen)
February 10, 2022, 9:39 am
Artist Beverly Barkat creates globe from miles of plastic waste
Artist’s four-meter-high globe is housed at Jerusalem aquarium before moving to permanent home in New York City’s World Trade Center complex
By Jessica Steinberg
Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon, May 18, 1969. (NASA via AP)
October 4, 2021, 5:21 pm
Earth is dimming as climate change boils away clouds, study finds
Researchers say planet’s reflectivity has dropped over the past 20 years, amid reduction in shiny, low cloud cover to the west of continental America
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: An asteroid falling toward planet Earth (dottedhippo; iStock by Getty Images)
March 28, 2021, 1:52 am
Earth safe from asteroid Apophis for 100 years, NASA says
A previously flagged potentially hazardous encounter in 2068 has now been ruled out as dangerous
By AP and ToI Staff
This Aug. 26, 2003 image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, it was about 55.8 million kilometers (34.6 million miles) from Earth. (J. Bell/NASA via AP)
September 29, 2020, 1:27 pm
Salty lake, ponds may be gurgling beneath South Pole on Mars
Scientists urge investigation of possibly unfrozen waters for potential life on future missions to neighboring planet
By Marcia Dunn
This picture taken on July 27, 2018 shows the moon during the total lunar eclipse, in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya. ( AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
July 27, 2018, 10:36 pm
World looks to the skies for century’s longest ‘blood moon’ eclipse
Event coincides with Mars’ closest approach in 15 years, to stargazers’ delight
By Pascale MOLLARD
A projection of the Earth and its biosphere derived from two decades of satellite data starting in September 1997 going through September 2017. (NASA via AP)
November 19, 2017, 6:33 am
Highlighting climate change, NASA maps Earth’s seasons over 20 years
Two decades of shifts in global temperatures from 1997-2007 packed into two and a half minutes of striking footage
By Marcia Dunn
Earth (Public domain, US government, Wikipedia)
September 28, 2017, 12:18 pm
Japanese researchers believe life on Earth nearly 4 billion years old
Research team says graphite samples found in rocks in Canada suggest life on the planet older than previously believed
By AFP
An artist's illustration of what TRAPPIST-1's seven planets might look like. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
February 22, 2017, 8:48 pm
7 Earth-like planets found orbiting star, boosting search for alien life
Scientists announce exoplanets within temperate zone of dwarf star 39 light-years away, providing nearest hope for finding extra-terrestrial life
By Marlowe HOOD
This artist’s conception made by Dana Berry of SkyWorks and provided by NASA shows GJ 1132b, foreground, a rocky planet similar to the Earth in size and mass, orbiting a red dwarf star. The planet is 39 light-years away - within the atmospheric study range of the Hubble Space Telescope. (Dana Berry/SkyWorks/NASA via AP)
November 12, 2015, 1:12 am
Earth-size planet may be ‘most important ever found outside solar system’
Features of newfound world ‘bode well for the long-term goal of studying cooler planets that could have life’
By AP
A frame from the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster 'Armageddon,' which tells the story of a team that lands on a massive asteroid to prevent it from destroying the earth (courtesy Touchstone Pictures)
August 21, 2015, 4:14 pm
NASA: No asteroid coming to destroy Earth next month
Space agency rejects latest online rumors of major asteroid impact, this time near Puerto Rico in September
By AFP
A full moon over the city of Modiin, Israel, August 10, 2014. (Photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)
April 11, 2015, 10:17 pm
Another step for mankind: Israeli scientists advance theory on moon’s origin
Researchers from Technion, University of Bordeaux believe moon was formed after collision between Earth and object of very similar composition
By ToI Staff
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