Water in the shadows, from a new source This paper is making the rounds today and describes new observations of the Ceres asteroid/dwarf planet (take your pick) located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Dawn Mission has been orbiting Ceres (the second of two asteroids the mission is visiting) for the last year, staring down at… Continue reading Water, water, everywhere?
Month: December 2016
CYGNSS is away
3, 2, 1…drop… I’ve got a serious soft spot for people who spend all of their time and energy building an amazing scientific instrument, then have to stick it on top of a rocket, put it underneath a plane, and then drop the damn thing out of the sky. Here, it’s the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite… Continue reading CYGNSS is away