... planet? According to simulations run by a team of international scientists, the best time to head to Mars is when the rate of energetic solar particles streaming from the Sun are the highest; I,e at a solar maximum. That might seem counterintuitive...
...’s magnetic poles serve to shield us from massive blasts of ions that periodically travel from the Sun. These so-called coronal mass ejections travel at millions of kilometres an hour. If one of these CMEs were to hit Earth ...
... though as NASA and JPL have scheduled the official end of the MarCO mission shortly after InSight’s landing, after which the two MarCO spacecraft will retire into orbit around the Sun. About the author Dr Kerry Hebden has a PhD...
... orbit raising. During a radiation storm, high-energy charged particles ejected by the Sun can stream into the Earth’s magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds the planet and acts as a protective barrier to interplanetary space. Once here...
... and researched various possible solar power satellite (SPS) designs that tackle the rotation conundrum: the solar cells always need to see the Sun and the microwaves always need to point to Earth. Leading designs for gigawatt-scale power...
...heavy hydrogen is called deuterium and scientists distinguish one body of water from another by measuring something called the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio I.e how much deuterium there is compared with hydrogen. Oceans originating from comets smashing...