15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...sky predominantly at mid to high latitudes. We know them as auroras and they are caused by the interaction of the solar wind ... and don’t come and go in a fleeting manner like auroras. They are also generated by the interaction of solar radiation with...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
...(Cazprom or Energia satellites aren’t truly private, since the Russian states owns some of their stock). Tablesat-Aurora wasn’t the last Russian satellite. In 2014, two Perseus-M nanosatellites and a DX-1 microsatellite were launched by the satellite...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... closer and closer to our planet. During this phase auroras can be seen at much lower altitudes than normal. The...this is among the most extreme known geomagnetic storms documented with auroras at lowest latitude, along with reports of burned fuses, ...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... a common service interface, which allows the satellites to be constructed from standardised blocks. Sputnix hopes that TabletSat-Aurora will become a universal platform for the installation of scientific and applied useful loads and, possibly, for...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
...be another explanation for the apparent differences in these UV aurora images. Roth and his team then took a closer look at ...the relative distribution of the aurora in the UV images. Ganymede's surface temperature varies strongly...
July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... days later. On 12 March, the Earth was bombarded by a flux of high-energy protons of 100 times normal levels. Aurora were seen as far south as Cuba, the power grid in Quebec province collapsed, and communications to several Earth...
