March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...Jupiter Trojan asteroids (located along Jupiter’s orbit, but organised in clouds leading and trailing Jupiter by 60 degrees) has the potential to... frontier of the outer Solar System The Trojan clouds are located in gravity wells that captured about ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... is also orange, and at least partly opaque, with clouds and an almost Earth-like landscape, but with seas and... contrast the bleak, monochrome lunar landscape with the blue skies, clouds, snowy mountains, lake and vegetation of our own Earth (Acrylics...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
...of JUICE. Each image shows Jupiter’s appearance at a range of different wavelengths, from visible colouration and wind tracking to cloud properties in the near-IR; thermal structure and chemistry in the mid-IR and auroral properties in the UV. On the...
June 2018
Striding through space
...showed his free flying figure silhouetted against the clouds and blue ocean Live television broadcast showed first... rose. Television showed his free flying figure silhouetted against the clouds and blue ocean. He departed by the open payload bay doors...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... to a pair of balloon aerobots that circled the planet’s sulphuric-acid clouds at an altitude of 54 km for several months. The motherships were ...for the first time giving us insight into the cloud composition and its evolution. Another example is NASA...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...be running a very outdated Windows XP system. Satellite safety Unlike traditional enterprise systems, satellites cannot be hosted ‘in the cloud’. They must be placed in specific orbits and have specific roles. An often-used analogy for servers in the...
