Oct 12, 2026 | Journal
In 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 carried identical gold-plated copper records into interstellar space. The records were built to outlive the civilization that made them. The cover, a gold-aluminum plate bolted to the record, has the same playback instructions...
Oct 5, 2026 | Journal
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest, oldest impact scar on the Moon. It stretches roughly 2,500 km across the lunar farside — about the distance from Waco, Texas, to Washington, D.C. — and it gouges more than 8 km into the crust. The basin is named for the...