Category: Science

Calcium sky

I was poking around (being a bit of a geek (Ok, so nothing new there)) the other day, and found this article in Icarus (Volume 173, Issue 2, Pages 300-311) entitled “The calcium exosphere of Mercury” about how it would seem that Mercury has an exosphere around it’s poles composed of gaseous calcuim. Toasty….

Nature Futures

Nature has started publishing “Futures” again. they first ran futures, which are one page speculative science fiction stories, in 1999, and I fell in love with them, as they were almost universally clever and insightful.

So if you have a nearby academic library, drop in and read a few.