News Archive / Tagged: atmosphere

• Various icy compounds make up Pluto’s atmospheric haze

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 8th, 2021

  Pluto's famous blue atmospheric haze likely formed differently from the hazes surrounding Saturn's moon Titan and Neptune's moon Triton, study finds.

• White mountain peaks on Pluto not caused by snow

  Laurel KornfeldOctober 24th, 2020

  Images captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its July 2015 Pluto flyby reveal the small planet to be the only place in the solar system other than Earth to have white-capped mountains.

• Spitzer and Hubble identify atmospheric composition of “sub-Neptune” exoplanet

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 6th, 2019

  Scientists have identified the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune by studying it with both the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes.

• NOAA to launch six weather satellites later this month

  Laurel KornfeldJune 18th, 2019

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to launch six remote-sensing micro-satellites next week, which will monitor weather in space and on Earth beginning approximately seven months after launch.