February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... measurements. ESA’s GRAS instrument is a GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding, along with temperature profiling in the troposphere and stratosphere with high vertical resolution. GOME-2, also developed by ESA is the Global Ozone Monitoring...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...’s lower gravity. Titan is the only moon in the solar system to possess such an atmosphere, which includes a troposphere (from the surface up to about 44 km), a stratosphere (from the tropopause to about 450 km), a mesosphere (up to about 600 km) and...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... for Boeing, but other firms could also receive a share of the money. Data collected from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on ESA’s Sentinel-5 satellite shows a significant drop of nitrogen dioxide - a gas mainly emitted by cars...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... monitoring mission led by the French space agency CNES and the European observation programme, Copernicus. Sentinel-5P tropospheric nitrogen dioxide measurements over Europe, Africa, Middle East, and India from April 2018 (averaged). Air...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... impact and solid particles distributed by the colliding asteroid would settle down in only a few months in the troposphere and in a few years for the stratosphere. Nimura and colleagues cite the cases of Pinatubo and the...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... several years to come, on the levels of aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and water vapour in the stratosphere and troposphere high above Earth. The Dragon craft is also carrying research materials that includes an experiment to develop medicines...
