November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... be able to absorb most of this if it is thick enough. Particulate radiation Space travellers moving out of the shelter of Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field will have to contend with high levels of solar and galactic radiation The second...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... behave in space, the reusable Dragon spacecraft is packed with an observatory that will study severe thunderstorms in our atmosphere and an orbital debris removal satellite equipped with a net and a harpoon to capture and dispose of space junk...
16 March 2016
Fog looms large on Titan
..., who used data from this imager to search for features such as clouds and mirages, in the lower atmosphere of Titan as viewed from the surface. “We initially set out to see whether we could see clouds from the...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
... that water, which consists of an oxygen atom along with two hydrogen atoms, is also expected to be overabundant in such atmospheres. After assessing extensive spectroscopic data collected from space-based and ground-based telescopes and performing...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
... spectra) which appears in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The new results, taken by the sensitive Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) instrument on TGO, shows that it is now also possible to map martian ozone in the infrared...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... be a true indicator of abundant life on the planet. "It is important to know whether and how much dead planets generate atmospheric oxygen, so that we can better recognise when a planet is alive or not," Schwieterman says. "This technique will allow...
