NASA Engineers Rescue JunoCam with Deep-Space Heating Hack
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, had a huge problem when its JunoCam imager started to fail after sitting through the planet’s harsh radiation belts for so many orbits.…
Mars Dust Storms May Be Predictable Based on Surface Heating Patterns
New research has indicated a strong connection between warm, sunny days on Mars and the occurrence of dust storms, with nearly 78 percent of storms preceded by increased solar heating,…
This adaptive roof tile can cut both heating and cooling costs
About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That’s a lot of money spent, fossil fuel burned and strain on an aging energy…