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 ...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
... the first decade of his esteemed career at JPL as Principal Investigator on the Pioneer Venus orbiter, which made the first systematic study of meteorology on Venus. Its pressure modulator radiometer, built in Oxford, was the first piece of British...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
..., making use of gravity-assist flybys of Earth and Venus to enter a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun. The spacecraft... will use the gravity of Venus to slingshot itself out of the ecliptic plane of the Solar ...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...terraform another planet. That is, to redesign its surface environment so that it is similar to Earth. Our closest neighbour, Venus, is not a good candidate for terraforming because it has a hot, dense atmosphere that would be difficult to remove and...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... Schweickart are dedicated to finding a way to stop dangerous asteroids from impacting Earth. Sentinel will be launched toward Venus and with the assistance of that planet’s gravity, then orbit around the Sun about 30 million miles...
