From a 1929 book on Child's Geography:
"But the World still kept on cooling and cooling, and as it cooled it shrank and shriveled and wrinkled and crinkled and puckered like the outside of a prune. You know a prune was once smooth and round when it was a plum. These little wrinkles and crinkles rose up out of the ocean and were the continents and mountains, so you see how big the wrinkles and crinkles really are."
Astronomers think they’ve detected an extremely rare, luminous phenomenon known as “glory” in the hellish atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. The discovery would be the first time one of these rainbow-colored light shows has been seen outside of our solar system. Live Science reports: https://flip.it/RiSqJN#Science#Space#SolarSystem#Planets#SpaceExploration
Thirty years after the first exoplanets were discovered, hundreds of additional exoplanets have been identified within the “habitable zone,” a place where liquid water and maybe even life may exist. The MIT Press Reader asks, could a self-sustaining starship carry humans to distant worlds? https://flip.it/0q093h #Science#Space#SolarSystem#Planets#Humans#SpaceExploration
"A fresh, icy crust hides a deep, enigmatic ocean. Plumes of water burst through cracks in the ice, shooting into space. An intrepid lander collects samples and analyses them for hints of life."