June 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... received of the effect of the collision of fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet with Jupiter. They showed that the area of the resulting catastrophe in Jupiter’s atmosphere covered an area the size of the Earth. Over the last 600...
February 2016
Space for art
...solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s ... stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... by images and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These...a strange tide-locked rotation of 59 days and a year of 88. Jupiter used to have 11 satellites, while Saturn, with nine, was the ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... bounded exospheres are seen throughout the solar system, including the Moon and some Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and are thought to be ubiquitous in the systems of exo-planets scattered throughout the galaxy. BepiColombo in cruise configuration...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
...mission uses special detectors to peer through the clouds of Jupiter and reveal the depths of its storms, you can... intuitive. Beneath The Surface, by Dan Goods, an installation about Jupiter using a cloud and invisible lights. Space as a platform The ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... to realise next-generation telescopes or satellites capable of detecting the signatures of life, not only on Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but in exoplanets beyond the solar neighbourhood. However, given that the prospect of finding life...
