16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
... door on Venus, exploring that possibility is an urgent priority for our civilization.” "We were stunned to find a molecule in Venus’s atmosphere that could come from organisms,” said Dr. Greaves. “We will continue to monitor and hunt for more clues...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... super-Earths orbiting close in to their star. The wavelength range will allow detections of all the expected atmospheric gases, including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide, as well as exotic metallic...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
..., by definition, aeroshells only work in the presence of air, so their operational ceiling is situated at the far reaches of the atmosphere, around 600 km in altitude. EGG nanosatellite moments after release into space from the JEM-SSOD on 16 January...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
...termination shock. Artist’s concept showing Solar Cruiser and the Sun. Sustainable option The O’Neillian alternative to atmospheric geoengineering is to reduce the amount of solar energy that reaches Earth in the first place. This can be accomplished...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... support equipment. Short and long-term Sentinel-5P will make global maps of gases and particles in the atmosphere to track pollution and climate change TROPOMI is what is known as a ‘pushbroom’ spectrometer, featuring high-spectral resolution, high...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... oozed into these huge cratered regions, accompanied by the degassing of the molten rock, and formed a tenuous atmosphere of about 10 millibars pressure (about one percent of Earth’s). The strength of the lunar magnetosphere appears to have been...
