Where did I park my spacecraft?
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 07:01
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers have developed a method to determine the location of a spacecraft within one hundred metres, even if the spacecraft is several hundred million kilometres from Earth. In addition to spacecraft-spotting, the same technique can be applied to study the atmosphere of our neighbouring planets or the structure of the planets interior using radio telescopes. Thus, for example, researchers have discovered water in some of Saturns moons and have searched for thunderstorms in Mars.