April 2026
Art, imagination and the human spirit
..., particularly the time I spent at the Moscow Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE). I was struck by the technology, the art and the symbolism. I went...
21 July 2015
“EPIC” Earth from NASA and DSCOVR: Stunning image taken from a million miles away
... allowing scientists to study daily variations from the entire planet. DSCOVR’s main mission is to maintain real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, in order to produce more accurate and timely space weather alerts from NOAA. What’s particularly...
30 December 2019
Will Betelgeuse go supernova soon? Probably not say some astronomers
... dust that follows the explosion typically travels at around 10,000 kilometres per second (for comparison, the solar wind reaches around 450 kilometres/sec). This means it wouldn’t arrive at our planet until about 100,000...
26 May 2022
Harnessing the power of geospatial data
..., including: Energy – Geospatial data has the potential to uncover suitable sites for greener energy generation such as solar, wind and wave power, the locations for such sites are predicated by earth observation data on geography, natural...
11 October 2018
Voyager/Hello from Planet Earth (CD / DVD set)
...’ - begin with greetings in different languages from “the people of planet Earth” and conclude with the “sounds of solar wind” transmitted from the spacecraft. Factual captions ensure that this is more than just a music video. The...
