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The Lun-class ekranoplan (The name Lun comes from the Russian word for harrier) is a ground effect vehicle (GEV) designed by Rostislav Alexeyev in 1975 and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 until sometime in the late 1990s. It flew using the lift generated by the ground effect of its large wings when within about four metres (13 ft) above the surface of the water. Although they might look similar to regular aircraft, and have related technical characteristics, ekranoplans like the Lun are not aircraft, seaplanes, hovercraft, nor hydrofoils. Rather, “ground effect” is a distinct technology. The International Maritime Organization classifies these vehicles as maritime ships.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Russia will bemuseumizingits missile-carrying Project 903 Lun class Ekranoplan.
As the impressive beast has not been used in decades, it will be put on display in Patriot Park in the city of Derbent in the Russian republic of Dagestan. One brave urban explorer, called Lana Sator, snuck inside to take some pretty stunning shots, the results of which can be seen below. The Soviet Ekranoplan is the only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle in the world. The formerly top-secret naval vessel had the capability to buzz just above the waves, using eight Kuznetsov NK-87 turbofan engines, in order to avoid radar detection as well as anti-ship mines.
The vessel, which flew thanks to a cushion of pressure caused by the so-called ‘ground-effect’, was also equipped with six launchers along its spine capable of launching small nuclear missiles that could destroy an entire aircraft carrier.
A dangerous expedition
Still, while it currently lies in wait to be shipped to Derbent, photographer Lana Sator was able to sneak inside with a friend and two watertight bags full of photography equipment. As Sator explained toRferl, taking the illicit photographs was not an easy undertaking. When they snuck aboard, Sator and her friend were frightened to see a guard, before realizing that he was sleeping over the low buzz of a generator placed on the vessel. The result of Sator’s trip is one of the most impressive examples of urban exploration we’ve ever seen — be sure to check out all the pics by scrolling left on the Instagram posts above. For more impressive abandoned buildings and vehicles, have a look at our list of abandoned structureshere.
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The Universe is a big place, so scientists are keen to narrow down their search for alien life – maybe by looking for radio signals, or hospitable climates, or huge megastructures. Now another sign of alien life is under consideration: atmospheric pollution.
If there are alien civilisations out there, the hypothesis goes, then their activities and industries may have produced pollution just like ours have. That pollution could be something we could spot in our scans of deep space.
A new study suggests nitrogen dioxide gas (NO2) could indicate life on other planets: It can be produced from burning fossil fuels, as well as from lighting, volcanoes, and other biological, non-industrial sources.
“On Earth, most of the nitrogen dioxide is emitted from human activity – combustion processes such as vehicle emissions and fossil-fuelled power plants,”says astrobiologist Ravi Kopparapu, from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
“Observing NO2 on a habitable planet could potentially indicate the presence of an industrialised civilisation.”
The presence of NO2 would be called a technosignature – a sign of technology on an exoplanet outside our Solar System. While these planets are too far away to send probes to, we can study them through ourincreasingly powerful telescopes.
This new study doesn’t involve any observing, but the researchers have used computer models to crunch the numbers on what a NO2 technosignature would look like, and whether or not our telescopes would be able to see it based on how nitrogen dioxide absorbs and reflects light.
The researchers found that large telescope like theJames Webb Space Telescopewould need around 400 hours of observing time at a distance of 30 light-years to spot an Earth-like planet near a Sun-like star – one that was producing about as much NO2 as we are on our planet. That’s a long observation shift, but not outside the bounds of possibility.
The team also suggests that NO2 would be a better technosignature thanchlorofluorocarbons(CFCs), which have been considered before; CFCs don’t occur in nature so they’re less likely to fool us compared to NO2, but they might not be a common enough indicator for us to look for.
“As far as we know, CFCs are not produced by biology at all, so they are a more obvious technosignature than NO2,”says astrobiologist Jacob Haqq-Misra from the Blue Marble Institute of Science.
“However, CFCs are very specific manufactured chemicals that might not be prevalent elsewhere; NO2, by comparison, is a general byproduct of any combustion process.”
During the course of their calculations, the researchers found that K and M-type stars – cooler and more common than our Sun – would give off a stronger, more easily detected NO2 signal, because they produce less interfering ultraviolet light.
With more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered over the past 25 years, astronomers have plenty of options to explore, and any reliable method that can be used to identify the most likely locations for alien civilisations is going to be helpful.
However, interpreting light reflections and the resulting data over so great a distance isn’t an easy task, and we’re going to need more advanced models further down the line – models that can factor in the presence of clouds or aerosols in the atmosphere, for example, which can mimic the NO2 technosignature.
“If we observe more NO2 than our models suggest is plausible from non-industrial sources, then the rest of the NO2 might be attributed to industrial activity,”says astrobiologist Giada Arney from NASA Goddard.
“Yet there is always a possibility of a false positive in the search for life beyond Earth, and future work will be needed to ensure confidence in distinguishing true positives from false positives.”
The research has been accepted for theAstrophysical Journaland published online atarXiv.org.
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It’s a materials world! Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, and Georgia Tech engineer Jud Ready explore how material science has impacted sports from tracks to swimsuits to golf balls to pole vaulting.
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Tianwen-1 arrived at Mars on Wednesday (Feb. 10) and fired its engines to allow it to enter orbit around the planet. China has now received and put together a series of images taken during this approach and created two remarkable scenes, seen here in a single video. One video, taken by Tianwen-1’s small engineering survey sub-system camera for monitoring a solar array, shows Mars entering into frame followed by an incredible view of the edge of Mars’ atmosphere, or “atmospheric limb.”
China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter captured this view of the Red Planet as it entered orbit around the planet on Feb. 10, 2021. (Image credit: CCTV/CNSA)
Craters are also visible on the planet’s surface, while the solar panel appears to oscillate with the spacecraft firing its main engines to decelerate.
A second video is from the point of view of a monitoring camera for Tianwen-1’s tracking antenna, providing similarly amazing footage. The engineering survey sub-system consists of a number of small monitoring cameras used to monitor processes such as the deployment of solar arrays and other events,accordingto the China National Space Administration. The cameras took photos once every three seconds and continuously photographed for around half an hour. The videos have a frame rate of about 10 pictures per second.
Another Mars view from China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter taken as it entered orbit around the planet on Feb. 10, 2021. (Image credit: CCTV/CNSA)
Tianwen-1, which means “Questioning the Heavens,” launched on July 23, 2020 and is China’s first independent interplanetary mission. It arrived in orbit around Mars after a 202-day, 295-million-mile (475 million kilometers) journey through deep space. It snappedan imageof the Red Planetduring its final approach.
The spacecraft consists of both an orbiter and a rover. The landing attempt for the rover is not expected until May or June, giving the orbiter time to image and map out theintended landing sitein a region known as Utopia Planitia.
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