April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... polyphase magnetic coils are used to drive steady ring currents in the local plasma creating an expanding magnetised bubble. The antennas (radius ~ 0.1 m) are shown expanded for clarity. How to stop Thrust is generated by a propulsion system and...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... locked on the surface of a sphere in a fixed and finite bubble Today, some of those who can’t or don’t want to deal...on the surface of a sphere in a fixed and finite bubble. An illustration of Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander on the Moon’s surface...
13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...powerful impulses such as plasma jets, the protective magnetic bubble surrounding our planet sounds like a enormous drum. ... is key to understanding the mechanics of Earth’s protective bubble, as while the wave itself remains on the magnetopause’s...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... be sufficiently large to form a spherical and bubble-shaped heliosphere. More direct observations from the Voyager...could help settle the debate as to whether Earth is contained in a bubble or not. Unfortunately, it is going to be at least another 25...
09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
...closer inspection of the samples also revealed the “presence of extracellular vesicle-like morphologies”, in other words, bubbles. These tiny bubbles were seen outside of the microbe’s bodies, and are thought to help catalyse iron oxidation reactions...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
..., Solar Orbiter will study in unprecedented detail how our Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the bubble of space filled with particles and fields in which the Earth orbits. It will answer questions such as: how...
