Rocket Roundup for April 29, 2020
Iran launched their first military satellite Noor-1, SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites and Roscosmos launched the Progress MS-14 resupply mission. Links Iran launched their first military satellite Noor-1 Noor-1 (Rocketlaunch.Live) Noor (Gunter’s Space...
Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus’ super-rotation, NASA’s Swift mission tallied water from interstellar Comet Borisov, and interview with Patrick Peplowski about MESSENGER at Venus
Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself, for the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the...
Star survives close call with a black hole, researchers use ‘hot Jupiter’ data to mine exoplanet chemistry, and Dr. David Grinspoon talks his “Funky Science Story Hour”
A star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays, Cornell astronomers have improved a model to gauge the temperatures of exoplanets, and Dr. David Grinspoon talks his “Funky Science Story Hour” on Facebook Live....
Yale’s EXPRES looks to the skies of a scorching, distant planet, a new model explains the unique characteristics of Arrokoth, interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight, and new comprehensive geologic map of the moon released
Yale’s Extreme PREcision Spectrometer (EXPRES) is giving a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet, a model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of...About Our Podcast
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