20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... have a radius around four times that of Earth, whereas Jupiter and Saturn’s radius is 10 times that of Earth. It is easy to see...to the giant planet cores of our own neighbours (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). Its not all good news for planets ...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... magnetic field of Jupiter – is behind the processes driving those emissions. Strangely though, although both Jupiter and Saturn have magnetospheres (the region around a planet dominated by the planet's magnetic field), Jupiter produces bright and...
31 December 2018
Planetary Ring Systems: properties, structure and evolution
...shepherd moon Daphnis which orbits in the Keeler Gap in Saturn’s A ring. The caption reports that “The surrounding ring... and shows an uncountable number of individual rings. But Saturn’s rings are only the beginning: this book includes sections...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
..., weeks-long mission duration, the Apollo capsule, the Saturn rockets, and the lunar lander. Our spaceflight capability today...System, a new rocket that will be more powerful than the Saturn V and will provide the heavy lifting for the systems needed...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... there is no chance for a quick rescue operation from home. Saturn V launch in July 1969 of the first Apollo lunar landing mission... new heavy lift SLS rocket will be 40 feet taller than a Saturn V, coming in at about 400 feet. Mars has about 38 per ...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...The launch rocket is three to four times the size of the Saturn V in terms of engine thrust and payload capacity. The interplanetary spacecraft...interplanetary spacecraft taking people as far as Jupiter and Saturn. Yet Elon Musk and others like him are...
