October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
..., spatial orientation, and cognitive functions. With the dramatic lighting, lack of colour, variable gravity and lack of atmosphere, this could create optical illusions within our ‘Earth brains’, producing the perception of something in a way that...
09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
... body, almost as if it were a solid. More data needs to be analysed in order to fully understand what is going on beneath Jupiter’s atmosphere and Kaspi and fellow co-workers are hoping that by studying some of Jupiter’s other iconic features, such...
13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
...with a lot less payload to transport and a thinner upper atmosphere to negotiate, a second stage kicks in to push the ... US military confirmed that the core stage had re-entered Earth's atmosphere at 11:33am ET (15:33 UTC) on Monday over the Atlantic ...
30 October 2020
It seems there might not be life on Venus after all, say two new studies
...basis to infer the presence of PH3 in the Venus atmosphere,” write the authors in their paper submitted to the ...chances of finding out for certain whether microbes exist in Venus' atmosphere or not, is by waiting for an interplanetary mission such as...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
... experiment to test just that. If given the go-ahead, small amounts of chalky dust will be dropped into the atmosphere, by a research balloon that will fly a 600 kilogram payload near an altitude of 20 kilometres, possibly next year, so that...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... infrared spectra to determine the makeup of mineral dust clouds. It will fill a critical gap in our understanding of Earth’s atmosphere and factors driving climate change,” says Senior FPGA, Electronics, and Software Design Engineer David Dolman...
