May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
.... High atmospheric temperature and density, along with the corrosive nature of the environment, make the surface of Venus nearly impossible to survive. A major goal of the space community is to engender an Earth-independent era for space exploration...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
..., was done in 1980 and, a year later, the first radar maps of the geological surface of Venus were produced. Optical observations of Venus see only the cloud tops, but radar can penetrate the clouds and reveal...
28 August 2016
How habitable is Proxima b?
... to lock the volatiles in. Inevitably, comparisons are drawn with Venus, which in spite of bearing the brunt of strong solar ...to keep hold of its dense atmosphere. Nonetheless, Venus suffers from its own greenhouse gas runaway problems, leaving...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...also announced another potential mission to look at mysterious absorption features in Venus’ atmosphere. Called the CubeSat UV Experiment, or CUVE, the mission would investigate Venus’ uppermost cloud layer using ultraviolet-sensitive instruments and...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... for NASA’s Discovery Program mission; the remaining three are VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus) and the...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... thought. We need only look at our neighbours, Mars and Venus, to see that if conditions are not right, then the ... For humans at least. We need only look at our neighbours, Mars and Venus, to see that if conditions are not right, such as a lack of ...
