June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...a corresponding downwelling in the winter hemisphere. After 2014, a large and sudden temperature increase - by 10-50 K - in the southern polar stratosphere was found along with a change in the temperature profile’s shape, while the opposite behaviour...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... managed by the China Meteorological Administration. Within the meteorological programME, the odd-numbered satellites (FY 1, FY 3) refer to polar orbiting low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, while the even-numbered satellites are geostationary Earth...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
... instrument to observe heat flow across Enceladus' south polar terrain. This will hopefully assist scientists to understand...organic molecules sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region. This remarkable discovery of geologic activity on ...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
...lines break through the surface, one sunspot of a certain polarity is formed and where the lines plunge back down again, it ...creates another sunspot with an opposing polarity. Sunspots are darker than the surrounding areas and ...
26 May 2017
First results from Juno mission
... investigation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At the moment, Juno will be flying around Jupiter in a polar orbit where it remains at a reasonable distance from the planet. However once every 53 days, Juno whizzes down...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
...," reads the letter from the LEAG. “RP was the only polar lander-rover mission under development by NASA (in fact, by any... currently under development to obtain strategic data from the Moon’s polar regions is not the way to signal that intention. As...
