04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
...(ISM), therefore finding it in substances such as ammonia and in other protoplanetary discs could aid researchers understand how nitrogen is dispersed and eventually locked up in various bodies around the Solar System. The lead author of the recently...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... would be expected if Pluto was formed by millions upon millions of comets or other Kuiper Belt objects smashing together. Nitrogen is expected to be a significant constituent of icy bodies orbiting far out beyond the giant planets, but its existence...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... CO2 mechanically, which again would be expensive. But the most serious problem would be the lack of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) on Mars. N2 constitutes the bulk of Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 78 per cent of it by volume. Mars used to have a lot...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... design, where the radius of the rotating cylinders is one kilometre, 0.75 percent of the total mass of the structure is nitrogen. Most of the mass is in radiation shielding and soil, five percent is composed of structural steel and one percent...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... extraordinary world is the only known moon with a substantial atmosphere, that like Earth’s is dominated by nitrogen. If nitrogen, or a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen, is escaping from Titan’s thick atmosphere, “then it is possible that Rhea could...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... shipped with a ‘Green Label’. Early German hybrid rocket motor employing N2O. Nitrous oxide is decomposed into nitrogen and oxygen when heated above 520C. It decomposes exothermically with maximum decomposition temperatures reaching ~1640C and...
