This is how one orbit lap looks like from the space station - the sun going the full round.
This one was going parallel to terminator so the sun never sets/rises. It just makes the full loop.
This is so awesome - real space videos always are.
Venus the least welcoming of our rocky neighbours as runaway greenhouse effect turned the place into hell - almost 500 oC and clouds of sulphuric acid that hard to survive by even the most advanced of our equipment. The Venera program manage to put the probes there after few first got crushed by the incredibly dense atmosphere.
Now the Venus Express probe will start a series of dives into the Venus atmosphere - something it'll probably won't survive - to record conditions in a largely unstudied region. It already has served as Venus weather satellite and now it will give us information about the atmosphere from the inside.
We made a new type of rock - plastiglomerate. It is made of solids of volcanic origin, sand, shells and plastic. It's most likely the plastic that got to close to the fire on beaches, melted and bound the beach minerals together. The new substance appears to be persistent, destined to stick around for a long, long time. I hope you are all proud of yourselves.
There is a first chatbot that managed to convince 1 in 3 judges that it was a 13-year-old non-native-English-speaking Ukrainian boy. I'm not sure if that's really passing the Turing test as everyone says but it shows the programs are getting better at this. Soon all your porn chats will be completely human free.