November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
...largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner...megasatellite orbiting Ceres located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Transportation There is almost no limit to how large the ...
26 April 2016
Sulphur chemistry could be the key to clouds on many exoplanets
...that, but the first exoplanet photochemical models of hot Jupiters, showed that small hydrocarbons would not condense in ...as 51 Eri b, a young planet twice the mass of Jupiter, analysis strongly suggest that clouds, possibly patchy ones, are present...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
...potentially found an active exomoon that is an extreme version of Jupiter’s moon Io – a sodium spewing, lava flowing hot body ... an exoplanet system known as WASP-49b. Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, is not only pretty big – it is ...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... use of the term satellites goes back to the discovery of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter. He needed a name to describe these small objects, rapidly rotating about the giant planet, which was named...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... then half a century later when a mini submarine was successfully plunged under the ice of Europa, a satellite of Jupiter. A great moment of political unification. This technology was not a special achievement, because the autonomous submarines had...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
..., a region of rocky debris left over from the planet formation process that sits between Mars and Jupiter. Ryugu is a C-type or ‘Carbonaceous’ asteroid, which is a class thought to contain organic material and also to have remained relatively...
