August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... pioneering studies to find out if satellite monitoring could provide crucial data to support solutions towards cleaner seas. Marine litter (ML) can be defined as any item that has been made or used by people that ends up deliberately or accidentally...
23 September 2019
Venus may once have had oceans says a new study
... a peek beneath the clouds to see what lies beneath. The first successful Venus probe was the Mariner 2 spacecraft, which flew within 35,000 kilometres of the planet in 1962. Since then there have been a whole...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... a big secrets beneath its crust. Scientists got their first close up look at Mercury in 1974, when NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft made three fly-by’s after it had visited its nearest planetary neighbour Venus. The pictures sent...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... that we do understand, we hope that one day the dream may become a reality. About the authors Frederic Marin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Astronomical observatory of Strasbourg, France, where he carries out research on the formation and evolution...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... for ecosystem-based approaches that relate fish species with specific aquatic environments, characterize and forecast marine habitats, and protect endangered species. The fishery industry is dependent on ocean colour for locating potential fishing...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... Yu Leng 999 would be decommissioned. This, the incarceration and fine, are “a chance for the life of migratory marine species,” he added. AIS tracks of Fu Yuan Yu 999. Incorporating numerous satellite technologies and databases into a bigger system...
