19 July 2016
Gravity waves on Venus create 'fountain of Aphrodite'
... At the cloud tops, temperatures are a frigid -70°C (203.15 K) – similar to temperatures found at the cloud-tops of Earth – however wind speeds reach 300-400 km/h, much faster than hurricanes on Earth. In addition to being blistering hot, the surface...
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
...while no less important, involves processes that drive the solar wind. Key to both of these phenomena is something called coronal ...of it escape to form one part of the slow solar wind. Mason is currently working on a computer simulation to elucidate ...
16 November 2020
Venus didn't lose water to space, new study says
...doctoral thesis last week, found that variations in the solar wind and the solar radiation affect how many ions escape. On ...going backwards in time, taking into account how the solar wind evolves over time. Persson’s results suggest that contrary to ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... infrared sounding observations from geostationary orbit that will result in three-dimensional information on humidity, temperature, and wind to support Nowcasting. The series will comprise six satellites: four MTG-I imaging and two MTG-S sounding...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... counterpart to a comet tail consists of, and where the material goes. Several other instruments, including a magnetometer, solar wind analysers, and energetic solar particle detectors, observe the space environment conditions that affect the escape...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
...deployed in a variety of locations, although they do require fortuitous wind conditions to fly over a desired area. Less infrastructure would ..., without the need for airports and maintenance facilities. Wind can be a limiting factor in the way that ...
