January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... instruments have determined that the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon are the coldest places ever measured in the solar system, but just how cold are the PSRs? They are colder than the cloud tops of the gas-giant planets, colder...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
... and its intense belts of charged particle radiation, coming only about 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) from the cloud tops at its closest approach and in doing so, JUNO will hopefully shed light on how Jupiter formed and...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... EUMETSAT's experience in this domain, based on the organisation's knowledge of the management of big data. It allows the agencies to supply their Copernicus Earth observation data to users, via the cloud, without energy-intensive duplication of data...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... exciting news that a gas associated with signs of life (PH3) had been spotted in the cloud tops of Venus, ESA’s BepiColombo mission might be able to add to this discovery as it makes its first flyby of Venus on ...
21 June 2021
Astronomers using GBT discover previously unknown huge galactic structure
... space neither emit nor absorb light in the visible part of the spectrum. H2 is known to produce a signal known as the 21-centimetre line in the ISM, and as it readily penetrates the clouds of interstellar dust particles that obstruct optical...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... for active human direction. Others have referred to the IoT as the “digital framework that will connect smart objects such as appliances, watches, and cars to the cloud.”6 These rapid advances in satellite, satcoms, and Wi-Fi technologies present...
