... we are messing up Earth’s environment – come from satellite observations and data. The shrinking of the polar ice caps, for example, can only realistically be monitored from Earth orbit: it is a unique vantage point from which to monitor...
... to develop cost-effective techniques that limit spacecraft contamination and thereby enable life detection measurements on cost-capped missions, while the VICI mission concept will look at developing the Venus Element and Mineralogy Camera...
... return to Earth. Just as interesting was an investigation that focused on telomeres – a compound structure that protects or “caps” the ends of chromosomes against deterioration. These typically decrease in length as a person ages. However, Susan...
... $8 billion it was allocated by U.S Congress for the development of Webb. If the project goes beyond the $8 billion cost cap, the space telescope will have to be reauthorised by Congress and the potential for further delays increases. But...
... simulations had predicted that the coronal rain should be found in a solar feature called helmet streamers; large cap-like coronal structures with long pointed peaks that extend high into the corona and can...
...’s temperature and ice shell thickness over time. Their results, say the team, suggest that this cap of caged molecules would act as a highly viscous thermal insulator between a subsurface ocean and an ice shell to keep...