22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
... surface radiation environment. Three resource prospecting instruments have been selected to fly: The Near-Infrared Volatile Spectrometer System is an imaging spectrometer that will measure surface composition. The Neutron Spectrometer System and...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide. Some of these species are volatile and condense in the troposphere to form cloud decks, starting ...of these condensed cloud decks. This means that these volatile molecules are only seen in minute amounts above the ...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... and use of water ice from lunar permanently shadowed regions. Rather than be transported to Earth, these polar volatiles will likely be utilised in situ for the development and maintenance of lunar habitats. However, commercial extraction of these...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
...and future risks We are living within the Sun’s volatile outer atmosphere and, whilst its beauty is undeniable, ... an urgent reality: we are living within the Sun’s volatile outer atmosphere and, whilst its beauty is undeniable, its potential...
04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
...bearing species compared to water, which is the most abundant volatile in interstellar ices and cometary ices, is around 5 per... by a sufficiently high collision rate to release the volatiles. On the other hand, in the colder outer protoplanetary...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... appear when the object heats up near the Sun and volatile compounds on its surface are released as a gas. This...that the observed coma abundances represent the bulk composition of volatiles in 2I/ Borisov’s nucleus write Cordiner and colleagues in...
