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In a matter of days, the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission will attempt a completely new maneuver that breaks two records: It will be the first time a spacecraft uses two objects for a gravity assist maneuver, and it will be the first-ever Lunar-Earth flyby. The Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist (LEGA) is expected to save JUICE a lot of propellant, which will be used later in the mission.It is a daring maneuver. First thought of 15 years ago, it requires launching the spacecraft at a precise second so that it will find the Moon and the Earth in the right position. It will first go by the Moon in the evening of Monday 19 at 21:16 UTC, losing some of its speed. It will then approach the Earth about 25 hours later. Our planet will slow it down further and send it on its way to Venus – but there is no room for errors.“It’s like passing through a very narrow corridor, very, very quickly: pushing the accelerator to the maximum when the margin at the side of the road is just millimeters.” Spacecraft Operations Manager, Ignacio Tanco, said in a statement.The slowing down part might seem counter-intuitive – it ought to get faster if we want it to send it all the way to Jupiter, right? But celestial mechanics is a game of give and take, and the more you can coast by stealing speed from planets, the more fuel you will have later during the mission as you do not have to use it in transit.The recent and upcoming movements of JUICE in the Earth-Moon system.Image Credit: ESAThe LEGA is such a clever shortcut to get to Jupiter that it will allow a whole new portion of the mission to be opened to the spacecraft. JUICE will be studying the icy moons of Jupiter, and after many flybys, it will enter orbit around the largest moon in the solar system: Ganymede“It’s a very important mission because we want to find out whether there are habitable places inside the icy moons, so Europa, Ganymede, or Callisto. That’s the main question of the mission,” Dr Olivier Witasse, a planetary scientist working on the scientific aspects of the mission, previously told IFLScience.Thanks to the fuel saved by this maneuver, the team expects they’ll be able to orbit at just 200 kilometers (120 miles) from the surface of Ganymede, allowing the spacecraft to conduct even more precise observations. This flyby will help not just get the spacecraft in the right orbit and speed but also to make sure the instruments are working well.The Moon is the only object with a negligible atmosphere that JUICE will pass near before getting to Jupiter. So during the flyby, a whole set of instruments will be tested using the Moon and then Earth.“This could not be done in the lab. This will be an excellent test to check the performance of the radar in the context of the full spacecraft operating,” Nicolas Altobelli, planetary scientist with ESA, said during a press conference attended by IFLScience.To study the potential ocean underneath the thick icy crust of Ganymede, JUICE will have multiple instruments including a three-in-one tool that will measure the gravity of the distant Moon. We asked about the experts if it will be fully tested during the flyby but only part of it will be.“We will use the accelerometer on board of the spacecraft to perform some tests,” Dr Altobelli confirmed. His colleague, Juice Science Operations Scientist Dr Claire Vallat, provided further insights: “We will not do a gravitational field measurement like we will do in the Jupiter system, as we will not be using the Ka transponder but, as Nico mentioned, the High Accuracy Accelerometer will be on and we will provide some valuable information on the lunar gravity gradient.”The space stage is set. Now, it’s just the question of nailing this maneuver and sending JUICE flying towards Venus. It will go past the planet in August 2025 before coming back to Earth, first in September 2026 and then in January 2029. Those final flybys will give it enough speed to get to Jupiter in July 2031, studying the system for 3 years, before orbiting Ganymede alone.

While the light and relaxing soundtrack of a nature documentary might make it seem otherwise, nature is, in fact, very noisy – but in a cacophony of different animal sounds, which one rises above the rest?The loudest animal in the worldThe battle for which animal is the loudest takes place in the ocean and if you’ve ever googled the title question before, you’ll most likely have seen two different answers: the sperm whale and the blue whale.While the blue whale might be the biggest, it’s actually the sperm whale that takes the award for the loudest – although the answer to just how loud it is is a little more complex than it might first appear.To explain why, we’re going to have to dive into the physics of sound.Underwater acousticsWe often try to quantify the intensity of a sound in the form of decibels, but sound works differently underwater compared to in the air – water is denser than air and sound travels faster in it – which complicates things.“A decibel doesn’t really represent a unit of measure like a yard or meter, but instead a pressure value in decibels expresses a ratio between the measured pressure and a reference pressure,” as Sharon Nieukirk from the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory explains. “And just to confuse things, the reference pressure in air differs from that in water.”That means that, for example, 100 decibels (dB) in water is not the same thing as 100 dB in the air.To make a more accurate comparison of decibels underwater versus decibels in air, we have to knock some decibels off the underwater value. Though there’s some debate about the best way to do this, it’s generally recommended to take 61.5 dB away – 25.5 to account for the difference in the reference pressure, and another 36 to account for the differences in density and speed of sound between air and water.So, where does that leave the sperm whale? The loudest sounds produced by a sperm whale – short clicking noises – were recorded at 236 decibels underwater. Convert that and you wind up with the equivalent 174.5 dB in air. It’s a good thing sperm whales don’t fly, because they’d soon overpower the 140 dB produced by a jet engine.Lots of places on the internet will tell you that the loudest sounds made by a blue whale are around 188 decibels, which without investigation, would put them above sperm whales as the loudest animal. Go for a hunt in the academic literature, however, and you’ll find that, as with the initial sperm whale measurements, that is the underwater figure. The equivalent intensity of blue whale sounds in air takes us to 126.5 dB, putting the ocean giants back below the sperm whale – although there’s a loud land-dweller that comes in between the two.Loud animals in the ocean and beyondAs any parent to a toddler will know, you don’t have to be big to make a lot of noise. Smaller ocean dwellers like pistol shrimps – including one named after Pink Floyd – can produce rock-concert-level sounds when they snap their claws, while a fish that’s barely bigger than a pea can make noises as intense as a passing subway train.Outside of the water, you might want to keep some earplugs handy if you’re planning to make a visit to howler monkey habitat. These primates come in as the loudest land animal and the second loudest overall; their guttural screams can reach up to 140 dB (air) and can be heard as far as 5 kilometers (3 miles) away.You certainly wouldn’t want to be standing next to them when they let that noise loose either – 140 dB is the same intensity as a jet engine taking off and 10 dB above the threshold at which sound becomes painful to the human ear.

Even in our time, many eyewitnesses of unusual events and phenomena hesitate to share their experiences with friends and relatives, let alone with the press. The fear of being labeled a drunkard, drug addict, or even mentally ill by society is very real. Decades ago, when only a few researchers dared to discuss UFOs, witnessing something strange in the sky and talking about it almost guaranteed ridicule for years. Such was the case for 67-year-old Gordon Mackerracher from Edinburgh, who kept silent for half a century about his encounter with a large UFO. Only recently did he decide to speak to journalists about what he saw. According to Gordon, he was 17 years old at the time, walking along a road in the countryside of West Lothian, Scotland, when he noticed a strange flying object in the sky. The object, the size of a van, appeared metallic and was shaped like a cone. After watching it slowly move away, Gordon immediately ran to the nearest telephone booth. He was certain that what he had seen was neither an airplane nor a helicopter. “I was walking from the cottage at Ormiston Farm at around 9.30/10pm and back in the day it was a straight road down to East Calder,” he said. “I don’t know why but I looked to my left and in the sky above me was this brown conical craft travelling in total silence,” Gordon recalled. “I could see the moonlight shining off it. It was funny, as I don’t remember being scared when I watched it, although it is possible I was at the time.” He then decided to contact Edinburgh Airport to report the mysterious flying object. However, the air traffic controller informed him that no aircraft had entered the surrounding airspace in the past hour, leaving Gordon completely bewildered. “They went away to check and when the guy came back he told me that nothing had taken off or arrived at Edinburgh in the past hour. He said their radar did not capture anything during that time either. “At first I thought it was maybe circling round to land at Edinburgh airport but obviously not. I just told the controller that it didn’t matter and headed home.” After much contemplation, Gordon decided not to tell anyone else about his experience. He was afraid of being branded an “idiot” and forever known as “the one who saw spacemen.” “I never told anyone. I was too scared of being thought of as a fool, so I just kept quiet when I returned home. I never doubted what I saw. At that time, I wasn’t interested in UFOs or anything like that,” he explained. Many years after the incident, while watching the television series “The Mysterious World,” Gordon saw a story about a UFO that included a drawing made by an eyewitness. To his amazement, the drawing depicted exactly the same object he had seen at 17 on that rural road. “There must be something out there. To think space is this phenomena, and it goes on infinitely for billions of years, and to think you could move through that and never meet another living organism, is difficult to think. “They could be more developed than us. What I saw was silent and as far as I’m concerned they have technology that we do not. “I don’t dwell on it. It has become an interest but I just get on with my life.” The post Man Breaks His Silence on a UFO Encounter After 50 Years appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Former NFL quarterback Alex Smith showed his previously broken leg, displaying just how much the gruesome injury affected his body.Smith played in the league for 16 years with stints in San Francisco, Kansas City, and Washington. While playing in the nation's capital in 2018, Smith suffered a brutal leg injury that took him out for the rest of the year as well as all of 2019.'I could visually see the blood pumping out, so it was a good one.'At the time, football insider Adam Schefter detailed Smith's injuries as follows:"Alex Smith suffered a compound fracture - meaning the bone broke through his skin, per source," Schefter wrote. "Trauma surgeons discovered Smith suffered a spiral fracture in his leg - defined as a long bone broken by a rotational force. Smith, 34, faces a lengthy rehab process to try to return." — (@) Smith's injury was so bad, in fact, that his leg nearly had to be amputated."I could visually see the blood pumping out, so it was a good one. It was lucky to have it happen just before halftime. I've never had one gush like that," Smith said in 2020, per Bounding into Sports.Smith has since revealed just how devastating the injury was, with a new, raw photo of his leg in 2024. The photo, posted by podcast "Bussin' with the Boys," can be seen here.Smith returned for the 2020 season to earn NFL Comeback Player of the Year in what was his final season in the league.Smith said in a 2021 interview with Sports Illustrated that he still had aspirations of returning to the NFL and described the traumatizing procedures he endured to save his leg.The reconstruction started with a skin graft composed of skin from other parts of his body that was put through a machine called a mesher that would combine the pieces and stretch them out."Comes out like gym shorts," Smith said.Doctors then rotated what remained of his calf muscle, reportedly half, and wrapped it around his exposed bone. Then, doctors took a portion of Smith's left quad and added it to his right leg for mass.Smith never again returned to the league, however, and stayed retired. At 40, he is married with three children.According to Spotrac, Smith made an accumulated $189 million during his time in the NFL. His final three years in the league, which included a lengthy spell on the injured list, were worth a whopping $71 million.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Humza Yousaf, Scotland's former prime minister, said that because of Elon Musk's criticisms of the United Kingdom's handling of the current social unrest between white residents and immigrants, there needs to be a crackdown on X, calling Musk a "dangerous" man.Musk and many others within and outside the U.K. have noted the government's response to the unrest is causing further friction on the island as examples of a two-tier justice system are put on full display. Musk warned if the new liberal-led government continues with its response, a civil war is pretty much guaranteed.'Think before you post.' — (@) "As for Elon Musk, he is one of, I would suggest, one of the most dangerous men on the planet. He uses his billions, he is unaccountable to anyone, to amplify far-right white supremacist ideology. He has, as you have rightly said, suggested, I think is hoping for, civil war in some parts of Europe, including in the U.K," Yousaf asserted to CNN."And instead of using X as the platform for good and using his enormous wealth for good, he is using it, I think, for the most wicked evil possible," he continued. "And in terms of regulation, let me say, this is something that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer will now have to think seriously about what more needs to be done. We need to have better regulation to ensure that we don’t have the kind of disinformation that has run rampant in the last week and be allowed to do so in the future with such devastating consequences."The British government has made it clear they will not only arrest people who partake in the violence, but they will use the full force of the law on anyone who shares social media posts they deem to contain misinformation or spreading "hatred."On X, UK.gov shared a post from the Crown Prosecution Service that warned of such actions with the caption, "Think before you post." — (@) The riots in the U.K. started in the aftermath of three young girls being killed in Southport by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana in a mass stabbing attack. While protests against immigration were the initial response to the attack, far-left riots have taken place as well after rumors of "far-right" rallies scheduled in different parts of the country.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When brutality is inflicted upon children, we should be outraged. It shouldn’t matter where those children come from. When the innocent are victimized, the only acceptable response is disgust and indignation. Our corrupt media, however, seems to understand this unless the brutality is aimed at the Jews. For some reason, the same rules don’t apply when it’s Israeli children being brutalized. On July 27, Hezbollah fired missiles into a Druze neighborhood in the Golan Heights, killing 12 children and injuring numerous others. Instead of focusing on the horror of such an attack, the terrorist sympathizers in the left-owned mainstream media have framed the story around Israel’s “escalated” response to Hezbollah’s ambush. Following the assault, which was the most deadly attack since October 7, the IDF launched a targeted strike in Beirut, Lebanon, killing the mastermind behind the Majdal Shams massacre — a man named Fuad Shukr, who was the senior military commander responsible for every Hezbollah attack in the last 30 years. But of course, the media paints the picture of Israel, not Hezbollah, as the aggressor. The Washington Post has come under intense scrutiny for running an article titled “Israel hits targets in Lebanon” paired with an image of Israeli families mourning the death of Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, one of the children killed in Hezbollah’s attack. The day following Israel’s retaliation, CNN published an article titled “Israeli attacks kill at least 19 Palestinians, including children, across Gaza.” Mark Levin is horrified, although not surprised, at the revolting framing of what should be a story that portrays the Israelis as the victims. He is thankful for the rare voices in the media that are willing to call out the hypocrisy — NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo being one of them. Levin plays the clip of Cuomo exposing the media’s glaring bias against the Jews. - YouTube www.youtube.com “If I were to tell you, 'Breaking news, a dozen kids murdered while playing soccer, dozens more injured, some critically,' you’d be outraged. I don’t have to tell you where or how. It doesn’t matter. Harming kids, let alone murdering kids, it’s the highest wrong. Doesn’t matter where in America or in the world, right?” Cuomo began. “Certainly when it happens in Gaza, we have campuses roiling, international condemnation, the media asking hard questions to IDF officials. So here’s my question: Why is it different when it’s the Jews?” he asked. “No international call for that terror organization to be acted upon, condemned. Why not? More questions go to how Israel may overreact to the murders than to how this is exactly why Israel can’t accept any of the illusory ceasefire options,” he condemned. Levin applauds Cuomo’s courage to call out the madness. “Well said. There are so few voices out there who make this point in the media,” he says, adding that Cuomo is “exactly right.” To hear more, watch the clip above. Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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