22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... deep sinuous faults, hundreds of kilometres long which indicate upheaval due to tectonic activity. "What New Horizons...showed was that there are extensional tectonic features, which indicate that Pluto underwent a period of global expansion," Hammond ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...model which might explain the relationship", said Li Zeng. The model indicates that those exoplanets which have a radius of around x1.5 Earth ... and 10 Earth radii however, as the data indicates that planets that span this range will be relatively...
July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
.... It was so bright it was visible at optical wavelengths against the background solar disk. It also provided the first indication of an electromagnetic connection between the Sun and the Earth. One of the most important and advanced technologies...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...determine the deuterium content in cometary water, which would indicate whether comets like 67P/C-G could have delivered our ...cold origin for this comet. There are some clear indications that the nucleus is not as homogeneous as people thought...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... well predict what is emitted by the launcher in which altitude, the atmospheric mechanisms linking these emissions to specific indicators, like global warming potential or ozone depletion, are highly complex and not yet well understood. Astronaut...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... and demand on the market of space tourism, the emergence of new partners and areas for commercial cooperation is an indicator of the way in which many different countries are now interested in participating in space exploration, a widening of our...
