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In 1971, the Soviet Union’s Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to soft-land successfully on Mars—but it transmitted for just 14.5 seconds before falling silent, giving it the shortest successful surface mission in Martian history.
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (897+ words) Mars 3 achieved the first soft landing on Mars, then lost contact within seconds. The surviving records distinguish a successful arrival from a surface investigation that never developed. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit…...
At the summit of Mount Thor on Baffin Island, a cliff face drops 1,250 metres straight down at an average overhang of 15 degrees past vertical, meaning a person falling with arms spread could remain in open air for roughly 26 seconds before hitting the talus below
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (1176+ words) On Baffin Island, a wall of ancient granite leans 15 degrees past vertical for 1,250 metres, producing the longest uninterrupted freefall path on any cliff on Earth. By The Long View · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit Mount Thor…...
Sea level is climbing faster in southern England partly because land in Scotland is rising. GPS records show eastern Scotland lifting roughly a millimetre a year as the crust rebounds, tipping England down at a similar rate, like a plank on a fulcrum
2+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) Scotland's ground is still rebounding from the last ice age, tilting Britain like a seesaw and making southern England's flooding problem worse than global warming alone would suggest. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we…...
The 2004 earthquake lifted parts of North Sentinel Island by an estimated one to two metres and exposed its surrounding coral reef; days later, a Coast Guard helicopter confirmed the Sentinelese had survived when an islander fired an arrow toward it
2+ week, 5+ day ago (670+ words) Picture the view from the cockpit two days after the water came. The Andaman Sea is still churning. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit The crew’s question was simple and grim: is anyone still alive down there? The answer arrived as…...
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total amount of water in the stratosphere, and scientists are still tracking how it may nudge the climate for years.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (153+ words) A volcanic explosion in the South Pacific delivered an unprecedented amount of water vapor directly into Earth's upper atmosphere, potentially altering global temperatures in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit Hunga Tonga didn’t. What…...
The most expensive wool on Earth doesn't come from a farm, but from a wild Andean animal called the vicuña, hunted to a few thousand by the 1960s and now recovering past 200,000 — partly on Chile's Atacama plains
3+ week, 4+ day ago (739+ words) A luxury fiber so rare that the animal producing it cannot be domesticated—and thrives only in the thin air of the highest Andes. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit Ask most people where…...
The rainforest is not the lungs of the Earth — the ocean is. Microscopic phytoplankton drifting in the sunlit top layer of the sea produce roughly half of all the oxygen on the planet, more than every tree and forest combined
3+ week, 6+ day ago (598+ words) By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 18, 2026 · How we edit I still find the comparison useful. It turns our attention from the most visible producers on Earth to organisms that are mostly invisible, dispersed through the light-filled surface…...
Early Neanderthals were probably striking sparks to make fire in England 400,000 years ago — roughly 350,000 years earlier than the previous convincing evidence, revealed by baked earth, heat-shattered handaxes and pieces of pyrite found at Barnham.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (791+ words) A repeatedly heated patch of clay, fire-damaged tools and locally rare pyrite form the earliest convincing archaeological case for deliberate fire-making, although no human remains identify the makers directly. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we…...