July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar south pole for water ice. Others, like BioSentinel led by NASA Ames, will be... to LunaH-Map but will use an infrared spectrometer to look for water ice in the lunar south pole. As with LunaH-Map, it will ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...) and north pole (right) as viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also confirmed by NASA’s LCROSS mission and currently estimated at over a billion metric tonnes per pole...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... of the storm produced lightning strikes that could be heard by Cassini’s radio detectors and fresh ammonia and water ice that could be seen in the near-infrared. Not only that, but enormous changes to the temperature and...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... topography of the lunar south pole with embedded water ice (blue shading). Many of these craters are ... is locally sourced is one less thing we need to bring with us. Water ice is among the most precious resources we could find, because not only is...
03 September 2018
Water discovered in Jupiter's Great Red Spot suggests plenty more down below
... the theory that the clouds are made up of three different chemical layers; a lower layer made of water ice and liquid water, a middle one made of ammonia and sulphur, and an upper layer made of ammonia. The deepest cloud...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
... of micrometre-sized grains leads to an overall heating of the disc, so that the water ice line moves further away from the star. An increase in the water fraction inside the disc, maintaining a fixed dust abundance, increases the temperature...
