18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
... of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggested to have a global ocean and likely hydrothermal activity. A plume of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region. This remarkable discovery of geologic...
17 October 2016
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbitor positions itself ready for its planned orbit insertion on Wednesday
.... The TGO also carries scientific instruments of its own to detect and study trace gases, such as methane, water vapour, nitrogen oxides, and acetylene that are present in very small amounts (less than 1%) in the Martian atmosphere...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... station to make daily observations for 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...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... them from sinking or forming cloud layers, and making them easier to detect. Well-known ingredients such as water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane will be searched for with ARIEL’s metre-class telescope that looks at the...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... shell, plans to visit the ice world to search for life were pushed to the forefront. And when water-vapour plumes shooting out from the bottom of canyons on the moon’s south pole were discovered by the Cassini...
03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
.... "We expected an atmosphere strongly enriched in heavier elements like oxygen and carbon which are forming abundant water vapour and methane gas, similar to what we see on Neptune,” said Benneke. "Instead, we found an atmosphere that is so poor...
