August 2021 News and research items
Hi everyone Please find this month’s news and research links attached, and what an interesting month this one has been. Today an interesting paper looking at Ceres arrived in the inbox and Ceres could hold a briny layer of salty water beneath its crust. The icy satellites of Jupiter get a good look in too with a look at the exospheres of Ganymede and Callisto, and the Icy geology of Europa. Moving into the inner solar system there is a look at a Mercury lander, amazing as it is a rover to the polar regions would have been my preference. There is another look at planets around Red dwarf stars perhaps the flares are directed at the polar regions sparing any orbiting planets from there effects, so there is a lot of reading to catch up on there. Closer to Earth another look at Starlink and the impacts of Mega constellations keeps popping up. Here in New Zealand were into day 9 of a Level 4 Covid lockdown, so you will have plenty of time to catch up on all the lin...