Frost on Mars’ equator and space vs Earth’s ice age.

The work of the European Space Agency probes has allowed researchers to observe morning frost on volcanoes near Mars’s equator for the first time. This discovery disproves the previous belief that water frost could not exist in this area. The ice is not only limited to the Martian poles, but it is also more abundant on the planet than previously thought. The frost is found on the peaks of volcanoes located on the Tharsis volcanic plateau, which is the highest on Mars and the entire solar system.

According to astrophysicists from prestigious institutions such as Boston University, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University, our solar system had a close encounter with an interstellar cloud about two million years ago. This massive and dense cloud had a significant impact on our planet. The Earth was exposed to radiation that dramatically altered its climate, leading to the development of ice ages. The interstellar cloud might have shrunk the heliosphere to such an extent that the Earth remained outside it for more than 10 thousand years, being exposed to cosmic radiation and particles that cooled the climate.

A new study suggests that unexplained, powerful radio bursts from deep space may be reaching Earth from galaxies similar to ours. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be much more common than previously thought. FRBs are intense and short bursts of radio waves that release as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in three days. They were discovered in 2007, and since then, more than 1,000 FRBs have been detected coming from different parts of the universe.