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A composite image made up of three different pictures.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — August edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Kyrke Gaudreau. This all-star trio works as Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their area of expertise. For the August edition, they tackled how perspectives are

A composite image made up of three pictures: David Saint-Jacques, a barren desert, and a grocery store customer.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Kyrke Gaudreau. This all-star trio works as Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their area of expertise. For the July edition, they tackled how blockchain

Infographic illustrating the super blue blood moon on January 31, 2018.

The Super Blue Blood Moon: January 31, 2018

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

What happened to the Moon on January 31, 2018? Click the button to see the full-sized infographic.

The planet neptune as imaged by the Voyager 2 spacecraft

Disappearing Storms on Neptune

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Tesla Roadster floating through space. Earth in the background.

Launching the Falcon Heavy

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The private company SpaceX successfully test-flew their new Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018. Watch The Element to learn more.

An artists impression of Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth.

What Else is Lurking at Proxima Centauri?

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

What's the closest star to Earth? Answer: Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri star system. Proxima Centauri is a small M-dwarf star, meaning it is red in colour, and has a relatively cool stellar temperature of about 3000 ° K. While small, weighing in at 12% the mass of the Sun, M-dwarf stars are the most common star type in the Universe. In 2016, an international group of researchers discovered a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri that is about 1.5x larger than Earth: the

Three moons of Saturn collected in one image: Atlas, Pan, Daphnis. These moons have large equatorial bulges.

The Walnut-Shaped Moons of Saturn

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Cassini spacecraft has made some truly remarkable discoveries within the Saturnian system, where it has been orbiting for the last 13 years. One such discovery is of the walnut-shaped moons: Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan. These moons sport a prominent equatorial ridge pattern circumnavigating the moons (Saturn's moon Iapetus also as an equatorial feature, though not as prominent as these). The ridges are due to where the moons are located. They are all located in or very near to the ring system,

An artist impression of the Cassini spacecraft just above the atmosphere of Saturn.

What You Need to Know About the Final 11 Orbits of Cassini

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Cassini spacecraft has only 11 more orbits left of the ringed planet Saturn before its destruction. On September 15th, 2017, Cassini will make a planned plunge into the clouds of Saturn, which will cause it to break up. The science is packed in for Cassini over these orbits: it will study the rings by imaging and sampling, create a more accurate gravitational map of Saturn, and measure the magnetic field of Saturn. Here take a look at the summary of science in the final phase of the Grand

A heat map of the American south west, including California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The map indicates where the temperature at a given location is above or below historical average.

Earth & Environment

The June Heat-Wave of the American South West

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In June 2017, the American south west experienced some of the hottest temperatures felt in a long time. It was hot enough to ground air planes, and even caused some deaths. NASA's Aqua satellite measured the temperature on the surface of the Earth during the heat wave, and here is some of the results.

A map of Canada which shows the locations of all forest fires and logging between 1985 to 2010.

Earth & Environment

A complete map of forest disruption in Canada 1985-2011

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Researchers from the Canadian Forest Service have created a time-series map of where and how forests have been disrupted between the years of 1985 and 2011. This is specifically tracking logging/harvesting and forest fires. A staggering 10 percent of our country's total forests saw some kind of damage over the almost 30 years. This type of research is helpful in tracking the Earth's carbon cycle, which is critical to understanding our changing climate.