June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
...solutions and put my inventor hat on. Seeing clearly I fly a Diamond DA-20-C1. A single engine 2 seat aircraft with excellent visibility and a ... flyable aircraft that fit the description of the Diamond I fly – an older aircraft with directly connected...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... together: time. The i12 beamline machine at Diamond Light Source. Zonation in olivine now tells us...is currently collaborating with the UK’s national synchrotron science facility (Diamond Light Source) to develop X-ray imaging techniques to map ...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...shape of asteroid Itokawa or the rubber duck profile of Comet 67P, Ryugu seemed to be shaped as a diamond. Artist’s impression of Hayabusa2 at Ryugu. Diamond shapes are usually created by fast spinning objects, where material near the poles is pushed...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... structures known as pipes. Kimberlite pipes are well known for containing diamonds and as such they are one of the most important sources of mined diamonds today. Formed over the past 650 million years, their deep...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... optical and IR astronomy,” warns SKA Director General Phil Diamond via Twitter. “Without corrective actions they will have ...to deliver innovation and new knowledge for humanity,” Diamond added. “We look forward to satellite operators’ proactive engagement ...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... the phase and the OSIRIS scientific camera delivered images of the 5 km asteroid Šteins, revealing a fascinating, diamond-like shape and a number of interesting surface features. In late 2009 we performed an onboard test to discriminate between...
