June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... complex refractory organic compounds combine and aggregate in the atmosphere where they form clouds that hide the surface (Fig. 1). These clouds, composed essentially of methane, ethane, and other simple organics, cause rain and particles...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...little more than four and a half billion years ago an interstellar cloud began to collapse. The Sun was forming at the centre and ...just how cold are the PSRs? They are colder than the cloud tops of the gas-giant planets, colder even than the mountains...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... illustrated by Hubble, shorter-wavelength infrared light allows us to peer through clouds of gas laced with cosmic dust (tiny solid grains that pervade gas clouds like smoke), revealing the otherwise hidden world of star formation. However...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... propulsion, enable reusable launch. SATCOM: integrate communications across the US Department of Defense to form the combat cloud, layer Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services onto every communications slink, develop laser communication...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
...21 December 2018, its trail creating a spectacular jellyfish-shaped cloud during the ascent. Endless Door was quickly offered a second... dawn sky, its trail creating a spectacular jellyfish-shaped cloud during the ascent. “We worked for years and got ...
09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
... interview. According to a GRACE factsheet, BisonSat will be used to “test and calculate land cover classification, cloud cover, and cloud height measurements” with the help of a light camera. The cubesat’s construction allowed student Ryan Beagles...
