wind
Astronomers Measure the Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf for the First Time. Spoiler: Insanely Fast
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…
5 years ago
New Space Station Instrument Raises Windy Science From The Dead
Here's a cool example of a satellite recycling project. NASA used to have a probe called QuikSCAT that took a…
11 years ago
MRO Spots Martian Dunes in Motion
[/caption] The benefit of long-term observations from orbit became evident today with the release of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance…
13 years ago
What Causes Wind?
It was not until recent memory that what causes wind was understood. Wind is caused by air flowing from high…
14 years ago