Venus

NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years

The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday. The two missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, were among four competing proposals under the latest round of NASA’s Discovery Program, which manages smaller planetary exploration missions… Read more

Panasonic launches the LUMIX GH5 II, teases the upcoming GH6

Panasonic today announced an updated version of its venerable LUMIX GH5 camera. The new GH5 Mark II is a relatively modest upgrade over its predecessor but if you look at the other thing Panasonic announced today, you’d realize it’s just a stop-gap. The GH5M2 features a revised set of specifications, largely due to the upgrade… Read more

NASA reveals flight zone for historic helicopter flight on Mars

NASA has locked in a location on Mars for the first demo flight of its mini helicopter named Ingenuity, engineers announced on Tuesday. The four-pound rotorcraft is gearing up to attempt the first powered flight on another planet, demonstrating a new capability that could unlock access to hard-to-reach areas of other celestial bodies in the… Read more

Sun probe surprises NASA with incredible photo of Venus

The Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s closest eye on the Sun, was whizzing by Venus last summer for a gravity assist when it snapped a striking new image of the planet’s mysterious nightside, revealing a surprisingly clear view of the Venusian surface. The spacecraft, launched in 2018, is in the midst of its seven-year journey to… Read more

Pokémon is a huge hit because it’s cooperative

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twenty-five years later, that’s still the case When Pokémon launched 25 years ago, it did so twice simultaneously. Pokémon Red and Green (later made Blue for its Western release) are almost identical, but each has a few exclusive monsters. The fire puppy Growlithe is only available in… Read more

PSA: Please wear layers to your vaccine appointment

Vaccine selfies — vaxxies, if you will — abound as more people are vaccinated against COVID-19 every day. People are anxiously awaiting their turn to get the jab, perhaps so anxiously that they forget to think about what’s best to wear for the event. One of the most recent vaxxies to make the rounds is… Read more

How Alix Diaconis creates video for The Verge

Along with news, features, opinions, and tech reviews, video has become an increasingly important part of The Verge’s content. But to make great, involving videos, you’ve got to have staff with the expertise to create that video — along with the tools that allow those staff members to let their imaginations soar. Alix Diaconis is… Read more

Laowa Argus F0.95: announced some of the technical features

In these days some rumors had emerged about the arrival on the market of a new series of lenses Laowa Argus F0. 95 . Given the diffusion, before the official announcement, Venus Optics has decided to anticipate some of the technical characteristics of these solutions which have as common point the maximum aperture of f… Read more

Dead or Alive and its “hot” mods: the authors of a DVD for adults denounced

The Dead or Alive series is particularly known to fans of fighting games, and beyond. The latest episode of the spin-off series Xtreme attracted the attention of modders and some crafty who entered the crosshairs of a furious Koei Tecmo: denounced the producer of a DVD that contained risque scenes. by Pasquale Fusco published 08… Read more

Space probe Solar Orbiter flies past Venus

On its mission to the sun, the Solar Orbiter probe flew very close to Venus. According to the European space agency Esa it was on Sunday at 11: 39 clock (and 20 seconds) Central European Time only 7448 kilometers from Venus. “Everything went smoothly, there were no problems,” said the head of the Esa mission… Read more

Laowa 10mm f / 2 Zero-D MFT: the compact wide angle for MQT

by Mattia Speroni, published on 21 December 2020, at 16: 23 ?? Laowa 10 mm f / 2 Zero-D MFT is the latest lens presented by Venus Optics and meant to be a wide angle lens for micro four thirds cameras that is compact, lightweight but of quality, also thanks to the Zero-D technology.?? The… Read more

The Verge’s DNA time capsule for 2020

X 2020: Science stories, moments, memories, and ephemera _README.txt _VERGE_SCIENCE_YOUTUBE_SHORTCUT artemis_accords.pdf bank_message.mp3 DM_2_Goodbye.mp4 dream_nightmare.mp3 essential_workers_1 essential_workers_2 nature_meme_1.jpg nature_meme_2.gif nature_meme_3.jpg nature_meme_4.jpg phosphine_1.xlsx phosphine_2.jpg ppe_design quarantine_cheer_1.mp4 quarantine_cheer_2.mp4 Robot_swab.mp4 slack_montage.jpg smoke_cyclones.jpg smoke_san_francisco.jpg zoom_team.gif zoonotic_virus_associations_1.jpg zoonotic_virus_associations_2.xlsx 2020: SCIENCE STORIES, MOMENTS, MEMORIES, and EPHEMERA Compiled by The Verge, a science and technology news website that existed in 2020 The following… Read more

Jupiter and Saturn merge in the night sky – Christmas star?

He showed Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar the way to Jesus. According to the Bible, the three wise men found the child’s crib through the Star of Bethlehem. It is unclear whether this heavenly phenomenon existed or whether it is just symbolism. A comet, a star explosion that can be seen on Earth or even a… Read more

Simulation: Earth is probably worth living for billions of years by chance

Our earth made life possible at least partly by pure chance so long that at some point we humans could develop. This is the result of an extensive simulation of 100. 000 randomly generated planets , with which earth systems scientist Toby Tyrrell of the University of Southampton wanted to find out how extraordinary the… Read more

Phosphine on Venus? – A controversy, a data problem and a contradiction

More than a month after the announcement that traces of the rare molecule phosphine (PH 3 ) were discovered in the atmosphere of Venus, there is increasing contradiction. For example, those responsible for one of the telescopes used for the analysis have meanwhile withdrawn the data for review. Meanwhile, a group of researchers from the… Read more