Everyone loves Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetheart, family and friends to “An Elegant Celebration: Landscapes and Songs of Love” on Thursday, Feb. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Trinidad Town Hall. “Songs of Love: Opera to Elvis” will feature performers David Powell, Alexandra Blouin, Kevin Held and Tim Breed singing favorite love songs. “Landscapes…
Arcata’s Wing Inflatables, SpaceX collaborate on Thailand cave rescue
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – When SpaceX’s Elon Musk calls with an emergency plan to save a dozen children trapped in a flooded cave, even at 6 a.m., you don’t let it go to voicemail. Andrew Branagh certainly didn’t last Friday morning, and that’s how the CEO of Arcata-based Wing Inflatables suddenly…
From California’s coast to below Elysium Planitia with Mars InSight
Note: Union Space Correspondent Roger Eckart recently traveled to Vandenberg Air Force Base, from which the InSight lander will be launched to Mars on an Atlas V-401 rocket this Saturday, May 5, and checked it out. First of two parts. – Ed. Roger Eckart Mad River Union VANDENBERG AFB – The prep is pretty intense.…
Brace yourself for sea level rise
Paul Mann Mad River Union HUMBOLDT — The latest data on climate change reinforce Arcata’s nascent drive to prepare for sea levels that one day will submerge its coastline. NASA has new evidence of vital Arctic sea ice disappearing at historic rates, as North Pole air temperatures soar some months to 35 degrees above…
Arcata eco-researcher links fracking sand to global warming
Undergraduate research presented at NASA environmental conference in Madrid Natalia Nelson Special to the Union MADRID – As I began my walk up to the podium, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to run away, weep hysterically, or throw up. I finally made it to the stage, took a deep breath, and turned to face the…
Landsat Launch A Space-Age Spectacle
Prior to 2008, images were pricey and accessed at a rate of about 20,000 per year. Since, it is offered open source and the use has grown to three-plus million and is expected to continue to climb with the improved imaging available on Landsat 8.
Curiosity, Before She Went to Mars – August 7, 2012
We were patient with the half-hour process to clean our photographic gear, don the suits and then go through the whole body vacuum room before entering. No speck of dust from our visit would travel to Mars, but perhaps a sticky carbon dioxide molecule exhaled by one of us would.