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Brain Post: 8 Facts About Summer Solstice

Today, June 20, is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that the beginning of winter is only six months away, on December 21, and daylight today is five hours and 28 minutes longer than it will be then. Ski season is even closer, as it […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | June 20, 2025
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What Would it be Like to Ski The Moon?

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Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, nor anywhere close to it. I have a fun imagination. Today we’re going to send a line down Mons Huygens in the Montes Apenninus Mountain Range. Standing at 18,046 feet, it’s the tallest mountain on Earth’s Moon. If you thought a ski pass today is expensive, try to get to the Moon, you’re definitely […]

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Luke Guilford | March 6, 2023
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Unusual Meteor Creates Loud Boom, Rattling Utah and Idaho

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  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Snowbasin Resort (@snowbasinresort) A loud boom heard in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho on Saturday morning has been confirmed as a meteor by the National Weather Service (NWS). The boom was so loud it shook homes and alarmed many in the surrounding area. The webcam at Snowbasin Resort caught […]

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Avatar photo Brent Thomas | August 15, 2022
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The Top 10 Biggest Mountains in the Milky Way

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If you have ever considered climbing Mount Everest, which has a peak elevation of nearly 30,000 feet, then you may as well have Rheasilvia on your bucket list as well. Mountains are some of the most beautiful features here on Planet Earth, but other parts of the Milky Way galaxy also have some notable peaks. These are the tallest peaks known to […]

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Jesse | July 27, 2022
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NASA: Birds Eye View of Breckenridge Ski Area, CO, From the International Space Station

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This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website Looking down from space, the human presence is starkly apparent in how we light our cities, transport our manufactured products, and grow our food. Even the way we play is visible from hundreds of miles above. On May 1, 2021, an astronaut on board the International Space Station shot this […]

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VIDEO: NASA Astronauts Share Their Favorite Images of Earth From Space

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | March 19, 2021
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Scientists Are Following a Rare Metallic Asteroid Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

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Scientists have spotted an extremely rare metallic asteroid floating between Mars and Jupiter and have placed its value as $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, or more than the entire global economy. The asteroid, known as 16 Psyche, is 230-million miles away and is roughly 140-miles across – roughly the size of Massachusetts. Related: Friday 13th, 2029 – The Day a Huge Asteroid Dubbed ‘God […]

Avatar photo SnowBrains | November 6, 2020
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VIDEO: Picturing Earth – Astronaut Photography in Focus

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | October 21, 2020
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NASA: Avalanches Viewed on Mars

Only an earthling would think that avalanches are exclusive to this planet.  But little did you know that they happen on Mars too!  NASA just recorded avalanches on the little red planet.  NASA wrote in a report: August 12, 2020 The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hi-RISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this avalanche plunging down a 1,640-foot-tall (500-meter-tall) […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | October 8, 2020
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NASA: A Look At Jupiter’s North Pole

View this post on Instagram The floor is lava! Oh wait, nevermind, that’s just an infrared look at Jupiter’s North Pole 😉 Our James Webb Space Telescope will examine the atmosphere of Jupiter’s polar region, where @NASAJuno discovered the clusters of cyclones seen in this image. @NASAWebb’s data will provide much more detail than has been possible in past observations, […]

Avatar photo SnowBrains | August 10, 2020
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Brain Post: Check Out Saturn in the Summer Sky With the Naked Eye

Although most of the hype this summer has been directed at Comet NEOWISE, you may be able to see Saturn from your home now that the comet is beginning to fade from view. On July 28, 2020, I was able to see the ringed planet with the naked eye from my neighborhood in Northwest Reno, Nevada. Saturn, like fellow gas […]

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Galen Carrico | July 31, 2020
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Comet NEOWISE Will be Bright Tonight

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There’s a comet passing close by Earth this summer and it’s a once in a lifetime, well several lifetimes, opportunity to view it.  The comet is named NEOWISE after NASA’s satellite Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer which discovered it on March 27.  After it passes from view, it won’t be seen again for another 6,800 years. NEOWISE is special […]

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Gabrielle Gasser | July 22, 2020
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Checkout Comet NEOWISE Throughout July 2020: Will be Visible to the Naked Eye!

For those seeking some celestial entertainment, the Comet NEOWISE will be visible the naked eye for skywatchers in the Northern Latitudes of the Northern U.S. and Canada. The comet, officially called C/2020 F3, also known as (NEOWISE), is among the most widely visible comets of the 2000s and has been hanging just above the horizon before dawn in the early days […]

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Galen Carrico | July 15, 2020
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Korolev Crater: Stunning New Footage of Huge Icy Martian Lake

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The European Space Agency has released stunning new footage of a huge icy Martian lake. The lake is found in the Korolev crater which is located in Mars’ northern lowlands. The crater was created by an asteroid impact, and its unique shape helps preserve the ice. The European Space Agency, or ESA, captured the footage of the Korolev crater using […]

Lynn Barlow | July 9, 2020
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Green Glow Spotted In The Atmosphere Of Mars

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Sebastian Opazo | June 26, 2020
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First Full-Sky Map Produced By eROSITA/Spektr-RG

A German/Russian space program has advanced the field of intergalactic observation and discovery. An instrument specialized to take x-ray images, called the eROSITA mounted on the Spektr-RG, has just rendered some totally wild images of our universe. To give a sense of awesomeness, the image-producing instrument has been placed in orbit around our earth a cool 1.5 million kilometers out […]

Elliot Levey | June 26, 2020
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Scientists Accurately Measure Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass From Space

Researchers at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Environment and Climate Change Canada have developed a method to more accurately measure snow mass by reducing the error margins of various observations through determined data from satellite observations, measurements made from the ground, and computer modeling.  Warming surface temperatures have driven a substantial reduction in the extent and duration of the Northern […]

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Sebastian Opazo | June 25, 2020
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110 Humans Needed to Colonize Mars. You In?

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As the planet barrels faster and faster towards environmental collapse, humans will start to feel the pressure to acquire a proverbial Earth 2.0. Given our rate of technological advancement, it is reasonable that a strong effort to reach Mars, our planetary neighbor, will happen within the century. Related: Prediction: 2080 Will Be The Golden Age of Space Skiing A new […]

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Elliot Levey | June 19, 2020
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From The Wide Space To The Deep Ocean

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Kathryn D. Sullivan at 68 years old has become the first person to walk through space and also reach the bottom of the ocean, with her arrival at Challenger Deep last week. More than 500 people have visited space, 65 of them women, and 8 people have reached Challenger Deep, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific […]

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Sebastian Opazo | June 18, 2020
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Prediction: 2080 Will Be The Golden Age of Space Skiing

Intergalactic travel has been the dream of humanity ever since we figured out that those twinkling stars actually have planets circling them. Perhaps those planets have fresh water, perhaps they have mountains, and perhaps we can shred powder in the Cassiopeia constellation. Let’s light this candle baby, we’re going to the moon with Dynafits. But rather than searching for 0.00001% […]

Elliot Levey | June 10, 2020
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