by Developer Mountaintop | Mar 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
“For more than 50 years, scientists have used magnetotellurics on Earth for a wide variety of purposes, including to find oil, water, geothermal and mineral resources as well as to understand geologic processes such as the growth of continents,” said Dr. Robert Grimm,...
by Developer Mountaintop | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
SwRI scientists are studying Saturn’s moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force, as well as how it maintains its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest...
by Developer Mountaintop | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
SwRI has won a $60 million contract to build three coronagraphs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). SwRI’s novel Space Weather Solar Coronagraph (SwSCOR) is NOAA’s next-generation instrument to provide early detection and characterization...
by Developer Mountaintop | Mar 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every second, the Sun hurls over 300,000 tons of material in every direction at half a million miles per hour. This mixture of ionized atoms and free electrons becomes the solar wind. It permeates the solar system, washing over the planets and defining the...
