ICYMI: Five must-reads from the past week (rocket explosion & zombie glaciers)

Friday, October 31, 2014, 9:25 AM - Another week has buzzed by and now it's time to dive deep and bring your attention to the most popular (and bizarre) stories that made headlines this week.

Since we're all bound to miss a few things during the daily grind, here's this week's edition of The Weather Network's In Case You Missed It: Five must-read stories.

5. Ontario sees first significant snowfall of the season just in time for Halloween 

Our STORM WATCH coverage continues as we continue to bring the latest developments on Ontario's first significant snowfall of the season.

Snow has started to fall in the Sudbury area Thursday evening, with an additional 5-10 cm expected throughout Halloween.

"The rain/snow line will continue to track south throughout the late afternoon and evening," says Hamilton.

"North and west portions of the GTA (higher elevations) may accumulate a couple slushy centimetres of snow on grassy surfaces by Saturday morning, before the system tracks out of the region on Sunday." 

Places to watch for a little accumulation include Orangeville, Guelph and New Tecumseth.

4. A one-on-one with Commander Chris Hadfield

Jasper National Park played host to the Jasper Dark Sky Festival this weekend, an event celebrating the Dark Sky Preserve proclamation they received from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada back in 2011.

Visitors took in breathtaking views of the heavens, and were encouraged to participate in a plethora of astronomy centric events throughout the weekend. 

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield starred in a number of the Jasper Dark Sky Festival events, and sat down with a small group of news outlets, including The Weather Network, for a Q&A about his experiences. Click here to see how space reshaped the astronauts personality. 

3. Windowless planes could become a reality within a decade

The Centre for Process and Innovation (CPI), a UK company, is developing the technology -- and they say it could be on the market in as little as ten years.

With it, every passenger is offered the same view. 

CPI wants to replace airplane windows with floor-to-ceiling, High-definition screens that show a panoramic view that's captured by cameras outside the aircraft. 

If floating in mid-air isn't your thing, there's no need to worry: The planes will be equipped with a menu of pre-recorded images, and passengers can change them at will.

CLICK BELOW TO SEE HOW IT WORKS:

2. Zombie glaciers? Some 'dead' glaciers come back to life, sloughing off parts of themselves in the process

A large glacier in southeastern Iceland is apparently joining in the 'zombie' craze that's been sweeping the world in recent years, as it adjusts to the increasingly disruptive influence of climate change.

A large glacier in southeastern Iceland is apparently joining in the 'zombie' craze that's been sweeping the world in recent years, as it adjusts to the increasingly disruptive influence of climate change. 

Glaciers, as the ice contained within them continues to flow downward towards their forward margin, generally wax and wane with the seasons, growing and thickening during the colder months and retreating during the warmer ones. 

However, due to the excess greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, and the global warming and climate change that's resulting from it, that pattern is being disrupted.

Andrew Finlayson, a scientist at the British Geological Survey, stands on the Falljökull glacier, in southeastern Iceland. Credit: British Geological Survey

This has put many glaciers into a state of constant retreat, where the only real difference seen between the seasons is the rate at which they're disappearing. 

Weather Network meteorologist Scott Sutherland says normally, when in a state of retreat, there's two ways that a glacier goes about it. To learn what those are, click here to be redirected to his in-depth article. 

1. Rocket explodes after 'catastrophic failure' 

An unmanned Antares rocket carrying more than 2,200 kilograms of supplies exploded Tuesday seconds after launching. The rocket, which measured 14-storeys high, launched at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 6:22 p.m. ET.

RELATED: Space is Hard: Antares rocket failure is a setback for space and student sciences

Seconds after it lit up the sky with a fiery explosion. In a statement issued by Orbital Sciences Corp., it was outlined that the vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure. 

It was carrying cargo for the International Space Station (ISS). No injuries have been reported, but there was significant vehicle and property damage, according to CNN. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

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