30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
...," reads the letter from the LEAG. “RP was the only polar lander-rover mission under development by NASA (in fact, by any... currently under development to obtain strategic data from the Moon’s polar regions is not the way to signal that intention. As...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... be tied to Saturn’s rotation in much the same way as the Polar Jet Stream is on our planet. This new structure on the other hand...began to warm up in the last few years however, the polar vortex has became more and more visible. “One Saturnian year ...
19 August 2020
Growing 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field poses problems for satellites
... Kuang, a geophysicist and mathematician in Goddard's Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory. "More specifically, a localised field with reversed polarity grows strongly in the SAA region, thus making the field intensity very weak, weaker than that...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... they unexpectedly behaved independently of one another. They also look very different too. For instance Jupiter’s polar aurora is often grouped into at least three structures, including a “swirl region” in the center, an “active region” of flares...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... primary scientific objectives of the mission are to study the composition of the polar regolith, and to study the plasma and dust components of the lunar polar exosphere. Luna-25 will also be used to test future landing technology. And...
11 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... upper atmosphere that have been discovered in recent times (such as subtle atmospheric banding, the hexagonal polar vortex and the polar aurora). Overall, the book provides a good introduction to our current scientific understanding of the ringed...
