11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... spread out (combined with how long until the cloud crosses Earth's path) tells us how many will strike the Earth.” The team specifically focused on studying ‘late’ disruptions, meaning that the impacting body is broken apart shortly before...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
.... Optical observations of Venus see only the cloud tops, but radar can penetrate the clouds and reveal surface details. Nineteen-eighty-two marked the discovery of the first OH Megamaser, Arp 220, the nearest ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, which...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... this image is hardly recognisable as Jupiter. We're seeing signs that the clouds have shadows, possibly indicating that the clouds are at a higher altitude than other features." Although the analysis of this first data collection will take some time...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, the ESA’s Planck satellite, and NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory to observe the interactions between the clouds in the Ophiuchus stellar nursery and the tell-tale production of gamma-rays from...
14 July 2021
Phosphine gas on Venus points to volcanism not life, study says
... oxygen to thrive, meaning that on Venus, it likely meant one thing – traces of life scattered throughout the planet’s clouds. Another key method of producing phosphine is through chemical reactions between sulphuric acid and phosphides (P3−), which...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...allow observation at different times of the day, minimising the effects of the cloud coverage that is typical of the equatorial region. The design of the optical payload takes into account the spectral characteristics of the vegetation to monitor its...
