tidal locking
Is the JWST Now an Interplanetary Meteorologist?
The JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope's latest act of outdoing itself, it examined a distant exoplanet to map…
1 week ago
Venus' Atmosphere Stops it From Locking to the Sun
The reason Venus isn't tidally locked could be its thick atmosphere.
2 years ago
Your Umbrella is Insufficient on a Planet Where it Rains Iron
Imagine a planet where it rained iron. Sounds impossible. But on one distant exoplanet, which is tidally locked to its…
4 years ago
When Will Earth Lock to the Moon?
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so it always shows us the same face. But the Earth is…
8 years ago
What is Tidal Locking?
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, which means that it always shows one face to our planet. In…
8 years ago
How Long is a Day on Earth?
I'm going to ask you how long a day is on Earth, and you're going to get the haunting suspicion…
9 years ago
Oct. 7, 1959 – Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon
For millennia, human eyes have seen only one face of the moon. Put a dude from the Iron Age in…
11 years ago