October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...m and 20 m resolution respectively. The satellite operated in a polar orbit of 630 km/98 degrees. In total, three missions of ...associated with this name. Yaogan 29 [2015] operates from a polar orbit of 615 km/97.3 degrees and is equipped with a SAR ...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
... liquid bodies of various sizes strewn under Mars’ South polar region. This time around, using a technique similar to...salts. These hypersaline brines are known to form at Martian polar regions and are thought to survive for an extended period of...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... will provide the first views of the Sun’s uncharted polar regions, giving unprecedented insight into how our parent star ...raise its orbit’s inclination to give us new views of the uncharted polar regions of our parent star. The poles are out of view ...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... pivoting, MASTER II can provide synchronous imaging of the interesting part of the sky in colour or polarized mode. MASTER II is the only colour polarizing wide-field telescope in the world. This view mode is used in cases of receiving alerts from...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... solar and wind power and, during the endless day in the polar summer, the stations are up 24 hours a day collecting data.... via the Iridium network, commonly used for telephone connections in polar regions. While the long-range wifi allows for a high...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... to one another, and to the direction of propagation. As the radio wave propagates from source to observer, the plan of polarization of the electric field vector rotates under the influence of a magnetic field. This effect is called ‘Faraday Rotation...
