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Lithuanian Man's 'Unique and Surreal' Experience: Only Passenger on Flight
Skirmantas Strimaitis spent much of the two-hour flight taking selfies and reveling in the silence. (Courtesy of Skirmantas Strimaitis.) At a Glance Skirmantas Strimaitis was the only person booked on the flight. The Boeing 737-800 can carry up to 189 passengers.He called the experience "unique and surreal." Imagine a commercial airline flight where you don’t have to deal with chatty passengers, your neighbors poking their elbows into your ribs or the person in front of you reclining their seat. Sound...
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Antarctica Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City About to Break Off
Cracks cutting across Antarctica’s Brunt ice shelf are on course to truncate the shelf and release an iceberg about twice the size of New York City. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from February 7, 2019, shows two lengthening fractures: a large chasm running northward and a split, dubbed Halloween Crack, that has been extending eastwards since October 2016. (European Space Agency) At a Glance Two cracks are close to converging on the Brunt Ice Shelf.The resulting iceberg could have a surface...
Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming
At a Glance The new thermal area has been forming over the past two decades.It was first spotted on infrared images of the existing Tern Lake thermal area. Scientists say it's just a normal part of Yellowstone's dynamic hydrothermal activity. Yellowstone National Park has a new thermal area that scientists think has been growing for the past 20 years. The new area is between West Tern Lake and the previously mapped Tern Lake thermal area, the U.S. Geological Survey announced...
First Photos of a Black Hole's Event Horizon May Be Revealed on Wednesday
An artist’s illustration shows Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss) At a Glance The Event Horizon Telescope has been focused on two supermassive black holes.One, Sagittarius A*, is at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.Results will be unveiled on Wednesday. The world may be about to see the first ever photo of the event horizon of a black hole if speculation about an upcoming news conference holds true. On Wednesday, six...
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