04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... break-downs in the mesosphere and “blue jets” – another type of discharge that propagates upwards into the stratosphere from cloud tops. ELVES on the other hand are concentric rings of emissions caused by an electromagnetic pulse in the...
19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
... path of unseen magnetic field lines down into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and washing away sections of the stratospheric haze to produce the distinctive darker stripes seen so clearly in the Voyager images; a theory that looks to have...
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...
