19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
... of Florida’s space coast, has announced its plans to fly passengers and research payloads 30 kilometres into the stratosphere in its futuristic-looking craft called Spaceship Neptune. Flown by a pilot, Space Perspective say that Neptune can...
30 June 2021
Life as we know it is not possible in Venus' clouds, new study says
... in Mars’s clouds is 0.537, which is slightly below the habitable range for life and similar to that of the stratosphere in Earth’s atmosphere. Jupiter’s atmosphere on the other hand has a biologically permissive water activity of greater than 0.585...
23 August 2021
Earth's magnetic field weakens every 200 million years, new study says
... more energetic particles into the upper atmosphere, which results in a break down of the ozone layer. The stratospheric ozone layer is Earth's “sunscreen” and without one, there is nothing to help shield life on Earth from harmful...
15 June 2020
Space Shuttle A Photographic Journey
..., nose towards Earth, silhouetted against three distinct layers of the atmosphere - an orange-clouded troposphere, a white stratosphere and a blue mesosphere, which darkens to the blackness of space above. Being a photographic book it is text-light...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
... an altitude of up to eight miles (12.5 kilometers). That's almost 100 times higher than previous hops and skimming the stratosphere. Earlier this year, SN5 and SN6 prototypes of the Starship rocket carried out short 500-foot...
10 January 2021
Astrobiology. Current, Evolving and Emerging Perspectives
... life in impact craters, low-pressure environments and terrestrial analogue sites from the ocean depths to the stratosphere. This is undeniably an academic volume with its copious references, dense tables and relative lack of illustrations, but...
