Earth is the only planet in the solar system with an atmosphere that can sustain life. The blanket of gases that surrounds our home planet not only contains the air that we breathe but also protects us from blasts of heat and radiation emanating from the sun. It warms the planet by day and cools it at night. Earth’s atmosphere …
Earth’s Atmosphere, ,
Earth is the only planet in the solar system with an atmosphere that can sustain life. The blanket of gases that surrounds our home planet not only contains the air that we breathe but also protects us from blasts of heat and radiation emanating from the sun. It warms the planet by day and cools it at night. Earth’s atmosphere …
A fix is coming for those locked out of their Chromebooks by Google’s update, Mitchell Clark
A bad update to Chrome OS, version 91.0.4472.165, has left some users unable to log in to their accounts, or reportedly with boot-looping computers (via Android Central). If you’ve found yourself locked out of your Chromebook, help is on the way: Google posted on its system status page that it’s working on a fix, which it expects to release on …
An on-the-ground look at Blue Origin’s motley crew, Joey Roulette
Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark and Oliver Daemen walk off New Shepard’s landing pad as Wally Funk, 82-year-old aviation icon and the mission’s fourth passenger, remains in awe at the size of New Shepard, the suborbital rocket they all launched to space on.Joey Roulette/The Verge Today, Wally Funk, 81, and Oliver Daemen, 18, made history as the oldest and youngest …
Planet Earth: Facts about our home planet, ,
Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. While scientists continue to hunt for clues of life beyond Earth, our home planet remains the only place in the universe where we’ve ever identified living organisms. Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system. It’s smaller than the four gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — …
Jeff Bezos and crew flew aviation artifacts, Skittles on Blue Origin spaceflight, ,
Amelia Earhart’s goggles — the pair she wore to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 — have now spanned another divide: the boundary between Earth and space. The well-traveled aviator specs, which Earhart once described as “rather historic,” lifted off again Tuesday (July 20) aboard Blue Origin’s first crewed flight of its New …
Chrome for iOS will let you lock down incognito tabs with Face ID, Jay Peters
Chrome’s latest update for iOS will let you secure your incognito tabs with Touch ID, Face ID, or a passcode (via MacRumors). When the new feature is rolled out to you, you can turn it on by navigating to the settings menu, then tapping “Privacy,” then “Lock Incognito tabs.” I just updated the app and the option wasn’t there for …
Russia will launch a new science lab to the International Space Station Wednesday. Here’s how to watch., ,
Russia is launching its Nauka science module, which includes a new European robotic arm, to the International Space Station on Wednesday (July 21). The new module will launch from Site 200 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M carrier rocket with liftoff scheduled for 10:58 a.m. EDT (1458 GMT). NASA will broadcast the launch live on NASA TV …
Russia will launch a new science lab to the International Space Station today. Here’s how to watch., ,
Russia is launching its Nauka science module, which includes a new European robotic arm, to the International Space Station on Wednesday (July 21). The new module will launch from Site 200 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M carrier rocket with liftoff scheduled for 10:58 a.m. EDT (1458 GMT). NASA will broadcast the launch live on NASA TV …
‘Woohoo!’ Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s first passengers revel in their launch to space, ,
Blue Origin’s first spaceflyers launched to space and back today (July 20) and loved it so much that some are already planning their return trips. This morning at 9:11 a.m. EDT (1311 GMT, 8:11 a.m. local time), Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle launched its first crewed mission from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. On board was company …