05 February 2019
New plasma-water propulsion rockets to move satellites in space
... it will do this with a rocket powered by water and microwaves. Moving away from traditional chemical-based propellants...most rockets, Momentus’s tiny alternatives use microwaves to heat water to super high-temperatures, which for its bigger rockets ...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
... to conclude that K2-18 b’s atmosphere is likely packed with water vapour, as much as 50 percent full and that its... only detect the existence of an atmosphere and the existence of water,” Tsiaras says. But combined with the rest of the measurements,...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
...of massive stars growing in a swirling cloud of heated water vapour and sodium chloride molecules – a compound more commonly.... However closer in, emissions of both sodium chloride and water vapour were detected. Sodium chloride is not a common ...
15 August 2016
Was early Mars warmed by cirrus cloud cover?
..., neither theory alone completely accounts for the amount of water needed to carve out the martian valley systems. However ...a lower temperature still allow for large amounts of flowing water on the martian surface? The team suggest that 3-D climate...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...determined that nearly 98 percent of the gas in the plume is water, about 1 percent is hydrogen and the rest is a mixture...ocean of Enceladus. This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... a pre-main sequence star to find that around 80 percent of oxygen atoms are locked up in a large reservoir of crystalline water ice – material that is crucial for facilitating the rapid formation of planetesimals, that in turn decreases the time...
