Claudie Ouellet

  Hello! In this blog, I'll be talking about NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). This project was the first of its kind, with NASA trying for the first time in history to deflect an asteroid. With this project being successful, NASA confirmed that we have a way to defend ourselves from a once certain impact with an asteroid or object from space.  Here's a link :  https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-dart-mission-hits-asteroid-in-first-ever-planetary-defense-test     This project, which was executed just last week, on the 26th of September, was successful! The satellite that NASA sent to crash into Dimorphos (the asteroid) successfully located and reached the boulder by itself.  It used the D idymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) to capture the last images of the asteroid before crashing into it. Dimorphos is actually a moonlet of another asteroid, the Didymos boulder. NASA is hoping to capture the effects...

Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life :  https://www.andersoncabotcenterforoceanlife.org/rightwhales/right-whales/about-right-whales/ Hello! In this blog, I'll be talking about a species of whale that is being threatened by extinction. I chose to write about this subject because I think it's interesting to know about the effects we have on our planet. Here are some facts about their situation. Here's the URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/endangered-north-atlantic-right-whales-thin Brief summary :   The North A tlantic right whale is a species of whale s that are on the brink of extinction. The y were named by fishermen who thought t he creatures were “easy targets” because of their conducts. Currently, t here are only 409 remaining North Atlantic right whales in the world , this being a consequence of their hunting a while back. Unfortunately, the North Atlantic right whale species are located in very busy finishing regions, so they often get tangled ...