17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
...spacecraft to get close to Neptune and its moons since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by three decades ago; an encounter that...being forced through thick, icy crusts – images returned by Voyager 2 showed two further peculiar traits not expected from an ...
March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... to other ship registry information allowing the authorities to confirm the ship is in fact the ship it claims to be. The voyage data can be used to cross check the position and course over ground to confirm that the ship...
March 2016
Space for art
...readers the wonderful relationship between science and art. NASA’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment... gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
..., due to Titan’s orbital inclination of 27 degress it has seasons that last about 7.5 years. Thanks to the Pioneer 11 and Voyager flybys, scientists already knew before the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended to its surface in January...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... there much faster than this. If we could reduce the outward voyage from six months to six weeks, we’d see a 75 percent ... far as Mars only to go into kidney failure during the voyage home. Evidence of the impact of radiation on the human kidney ...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
...), the process of safely relocating an entire planet’s population is stated to be as long as three years. And although the starship Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among the...
