02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
.... Later in the year, an ambitious, multi-spacecraft mission to study the least explored planet in our Solar System – Mercury – is scheduled for lift-off in October. Known as BepiColombo, the joint ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... system formation, and in particular formation of the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, often consider that at least the... was similar for Venus, Earth and Mars, which, unlike Mercury, are far enough from the Sun to have retained at ...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...the case in many industrial contexts today. NASA’s Mercury programme, which was the United States’ first man-in-...the flight of Faith 7, the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, there were mission-threatening technical problems. After experiencing ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...Jupiter-mass planet on an orbit that was shorter than Mercury’s! With this discovery it became clear that we’d been missing...its host star - like we can with the transits of Venus or Mercury in our Solar System - but we can detect the small decrease in...
13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...’s percussion family, it seems our planet could be teaming up with Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn to belt out tunes to the rest of the...other planets with magnetospheres, like Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury, and what effect the waves may have in those...
June 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
... GEO Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI), the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative, the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS), and the Global Carbon Observing System (GeoCarbon). The results of these initiatives comprise...
