Ripples In A Teacup

Apparently NASA is finalizing plans to bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth, along with their two space station crewmates, Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, around March 19. That's two weeks earlier than their previously announced ETA. This has come about because   the next set of station fliers, known as Crew 10, are expected to be switched to a different Crew Dragon spacecraft (Endeavor) and launched on March 12th . The SpaceX ferry ship meant to make its maiden flight to bring back Williams and Wilmore is taking longer than expected and will not be used to for the March trip. During her stay on the ISS, Sunita broke the record for total spacewalking time by a woman by logging 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk. Williams and Wilmore sauntered outside the ISS to remove degraded radio communications hardware and collect samples that may show whether microorganisms exist on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory. A week ago, Sunita told CBS Evenin...

 Unexpectedly, January 2025 has been declared the world's warmest January on record . Scientists had anticipated some cooling of global temperatures due to the end of the most recent El Niño event which is known to boost the amount of heat in the atmosphere. However, this was not the case. Western Europe , as well as parts of Italy, Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Alaska, Canada, central and eastern Russia, eastern Australia, southeastern Africa, and southern Brazil had “wetter-than-average conditions” in January 2025, marked by “heavy precipitation” and flooding in some regions. On the other hand, drier than average conditions were recorded in the northern UK and Ireland, eastern Spain and north of the Black Sea. But southwestern United States, northern Mexico, northern Africa, the Middle East, across Central Asia and in eastern China, southern Africa, southern South America and Australia had drier-than-average conditions. January 2025 was 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels...