05 November 2018
First global thermal map of Europa reveals curious cold spot
...life. “These ALMA images are really interesting because they provide the first global map of Europa’s thermal emission,” said Samantha Trumbo, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology and lead author on a paper published in the...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... spacecraft’s two spectrometers, the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) and the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), have revealed the presence of hydroxyls; a type of molecule made up from an oxygen atom bonded...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... for selenauts, along with implementing technologies for mining and processing lunar minerals. Model of water vapour thermal emission from the regolith bed surface. Mineral wealth As numerous regolith-dedicated studies have shown, the Moon...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... of a black-hole merger with masses in the range of ~10 - 100 solar masses. The team found that the thermal emission generated in the merger could be seen as a fast optical transient with the duration of hours. The team also...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...) that can distinguish as many as 10,000 colours. The FTS records both reflected sunlight in near-infrared and thermal emissions by measuring absorption of light by CO2 and CH4 molecules in the atmosphere. FTS has a circular, instantaneous field...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... Cancri e (recently named by the IAU as Janssen) [6]. Emission or reflectance spectra can also be derived from just before and...range, depending on the type of host star; thermal emission dominates at longer wavelengths. From studying planets within ...
