March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...have been ‘refilled’ with ice after the initial meteorite impact. In addition, measurements of Europa’s magnetic field ...emission was characteristic of water vapour being dissociated by the impacts of high energy electrons. If this emissions surplus is...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
..., Cambridge, Massachusetts, have calculated that comets like 67P could have delivered up to 50 gigatonnes of chlorine by way of meteorite impact in our planet’s early history. “Finding the organohalogen Freon-40 near these young, Sun-like stars was...
21 August 2020
A small air leak has been found on the International Space Station, says NASA
... station. The 2 millimetre hole in the Soyuz hull was eventually attributed to human error rather than a micro-meteorite impact, although a final determination of the cause was never publicly made. The method for sealing the Soyuz...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... and may be more widely distributed than thought. They also state that as water is lost easily to micro-meteorite impacts and the breakdown of H2O molecules by ultraviolet light, the detection of water within the micro cold traps...
