October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
...equinox in August 2009. These plumes are powered by moist convection (i.e., the energy derived from the condensation of water), and... still be seen today. Furthermore, the powerful convection produced atmospheric waves that carried energy high into the...
02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
... to the umbra, it also shows central hot upflows surrounded by cooler downflows that is interpreted as a evidence for vigorous convection in the bridge. The team also state that the light bridge is dominated by gas pressure, as opposed to the...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... when ground-transferred wind-generated lander noise and convective atmospheric vortices, or dust devils as they are...covers a dry surface there is a scant amount of moist convection circulating the planet. Also unlike Earth, the atmosphere’s main ...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... this will remind you of home.” While in some cases it may be a blessing in disguise, the lack of normal air convection on board means that odours do not move through the environment in the same way as on Earth. Astronauts experience...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
..., (n 10) at p.190 12 The Convention on Offences and Certain other acts committed on board Aircraft, commonly refered to as the Tokyo Convection is available here: https://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv1-english.pdf and was augmented with the...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... flying laboratories in a state of microgravity, which gives freedom from, for example, hydrostatic pressure, convection, Archimedes’ principle, sedimentation and amplifying capillarity, wettability, and the effects of surface tension (purification...
