A space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR's search for extraterrestrial life

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

Rising CO2 levels threaten to disrupt global space communication

Far above your head, in the atmosphere between Earth and outer space, an invisible process is occurring. The increasing ...
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A High-Order Finite-Difference Combined With Runge–Kutta Scheme for Full-Component Simulation of Seismoelectric Waves

Abstract: Simulation of the seismoelectric effect is an effective approach for investigating the propagation characteristics of seismoelectric waves. However, the quasi-static approximation fails to ...

The next solar superstorm could wipe out 'all our satellites,' new simulations reveal

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

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