exosphere

BepiColombo’s New Images of Mercury are CoolBepiColombo’s New Images of Mercury are Cool

BepiColombo’s New Images of Mercury are Cool

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft made another flyby of its eventual target, Mercury. This is one of a series of Mercury…

5 months ago
MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike MercuryMESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury

MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury

Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…

4 years ago
What is the Average Surface Temperature of Mercury?What is the Average Surface Temperature of Mercury?

What is the Average Surface Temperature of Mercury?

Because of its extremely eccentric orbit, slow rotation, and lack of an atmosphere, Mercury experiences extreme variations in surface temperature.

8 years ago
How High is Space?How High is Space?

How High is Space?

Where our atmosphere ends and space begins has been the subject of debate for some time. But thanks to decades…

8 years ago
What Is The Atmosphere Like On Other Planets?What Is The Atmosphere Like On Other Planets?

What Is The Atmosphere Like On Other Planets?

The Solar System's planets have varied and interesting atmospheres, ranging from incredibly thin exospheres to ones that could literally crush…

9 years ago
Saturn’s “Wispy” Moon Has An Oxygen AtmosphereSaturn’s “Wispy” Moon Has An Oxygen Atmosphere

Saturn’s “Wispy” Moon Has An Oxygen Atmosphere

[/caption] There's oxygen around Dione, a research team led by scientists at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory announced on…

13 years ago
ExosphereExosphere

Exosphere

[/caption] The Earth's atmosphere is broken up into several distinct layers. We live down in the troposphere, where the atmosphere…

15 years ago
Atmosphere LayersAtmosphere Layers

Atmosphere Layers

[/caption] Seen from space, the Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, like a slight haze around the planet. But the atmosphere…

15 years ago