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WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL
This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba
Yes. On cosmic timescales, comets hit Earth frequently, but because they’re largely made of ice rather than solid rock, they tend not to leave obvious craters. A small comet is more likely than an asteroid to break up as it plunges into Earth’s atmosphere and heats up, often resulting in an explosion called an airburst that can devastate large areas of the landscape but doesn’t leave a crater. Perhaps the most famous such event happened over the Russian region of Tunguska in 1908, when an exploding comet flattened some 770 square miles of Siberian forest. A comet would have to be pretty big in order to hit the ground intact.
Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn
How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades
NEVER MIND THE COMMLOCKS AS WE RETURN TO MOONBASE ALPHA TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF SPACE: 1999 , THE COLDEST, STRANGEST ANDERSON SHOW OF ALL
