28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... (100 miles) below the crust; therefore, the water vapour would not represent the evaporation of this ocean. Astronomers... from the last two decades to find this evidence of water vapour. In 1998, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...the first time at the occurrence of a transient plume of water vapour near Europa’s south pole. The method that led to this...and Bert Vermeersen. “On the in-situ detectability of Europa’s water vapour plumes from a flyby mission” 2017. Icarus, volume ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
...sustaining conditions 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...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... [George Sowers] The ice extraction methods were: 1) excavation of the icy regolith followed by bulk heating to release water vapour; 2) subsurface heating of the icy regolith using borehole heaters; 3) surface heating of the icy regolith. The latter...
19 July 2016
Gravity waves on Venus create 'fountain of Aphrodite'
..., particularly beneath its cloud layer and Bertaux and colleagues have been studying the absorption of sunlight by water vapour to detect how much is present in each location at cloud-top level (70 km altitude). Their analysis has shown that...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... in to their star. The wavelength range will allow detections of all the expected atmospheric gases, including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide, as well as exotic metallic compounds such as titanium...
