February 2016
How to Build Planets
... excesses can be an indication of something different altogether. Artist’s impression of a ‘Hot Jupiter’ Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope of discs lacking these two excesses indicate that the fledgling protostar is on its way to becoming...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
...-time monitoring of any vessel’s movements across the sea. The Galapagos Islands viewed by astronauts on the International Space Station. The first challenge is to interpret these movements and cross check against licence databases and vessel...
July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
...partnership: GEO is a global partnership designed to address global environment observation and monitoring activities. The post MDG/SDG approach calls ... The Conference also recognised the importance of space-based data, in situ monitoring and reliable...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...very rugged, probably very pristine material not yet softened by space weathering and sublimation. It looks almost like the comet ...gas, to studying the interaction of the comet with its environment (the solar wind), will give us a much better ...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...to terraform another planet. That is, to redesign its surface environment so that it is similar to Earth. Our closest neighbour,...studies of nitrogen isotopes, but lost most of it to space over time from solar wind stripping and other atmospheric loss ...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... a long integration time. Hence, other missions under formulation include a rendezvous and even a lander. The Japanese space agency JAXA is even proposing an ambitious mission with a solar-sail spacecraft that would perform a sample return...
