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Daily Archives: October 16, 2024
Europa Clipper blasts off: What’s next for NASA’s biggest-ever interplanetary spacecraft?
NASA Space Technology An artist's impression of Europa Clipper performing a flyby of Europa as it orbits Jupiter(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the agency's biggest-ever interplanetary spacecraft, into space and it's now headed for Jupiter's frozen moon Europa."Congratulations to our Europa Clipper team for beginning the first journey to an ocean world beyond Earth," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.The craft took off Oct. 14 on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was originally slated to launch Oct. 10, but the mission was pushed back because of Hurricane Miltonwhich smashed into Florida Oct. 9.When the Europa Clipper arrives in 2030, the orbiter will study the frozen moon's hidden ocean, which is locked beneath an icy shell, to determine how...
Do you think you’re ‘depressed’ or ‘anxious’? We speak to mental health professionals about self-diagnosis, Lifestyle News
Lifestyle To mark World Mental Health Day on Oct 10, AsiaOne shines the spotlight on mental health advocates and looks at how Singaporeans cope with mental health issues in their lives.Feeling anxious is different for everyone.Some of us might have trouble sleeping or concentrating, others might experience heart palpitations.So we head online in search of answers and realise what we're experiencing happens to match symptoms of an anxiety disorder.But where exactly is the line where anxiety, a normal human emotion, becomes an anxiety disorder, a clinical issue?Do we use words like "anxious" or "depressed" too casually as adjectives when describing our emotions?AsiaOne spoke to two mental health professionals, James Chong and Gwendolyn Tui, about individuals heading online for answers regarding their mental health, resulting in the misuse of clinical terms in daily speech and in self-diagnosis.Lifestyle...
NASA Astronauts, SOHO Spacecraft Snap New Images of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
NASA Space Technology A bright comet from the Oort cloud named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is passing by Earth and will be visible through the second half of October 2024.This image, taken by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on October 10, 2024, shows comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its bright tail streaming from the upper left to the right; Mercury appears as a bright dot on the left. Image credit: ESA / NASA.Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on January 9, 2023.Otherwise known as C/2023 A3, the comet was independently spotted by ATLAS in South Africa on February 22, 2023.It orbits the Sun on a retrograde orbit, lying at an inclination of 139°.It had its perihelion on September 27, 2024, at a distance of 0.391 AU; the closest approach...
