Jatan Mehta

Jatan Mehta is an independent, globally published science writer. He is passionate about exploration of space and humanity’s future in it, and the unique role of our Moon in both. His space blog and lunar exploration newsletter can be found at blog.jatan.space.

Voyager 1, Voyager 2, interstellar space, Solar System, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, heliopause, Stamatios Krimigis, New Horizons, Pluto, plasma, solar magnetic field, galactic magnetic field, plasma wave subsystem, astronomical unit, electrons, electron density, cosmic radiation, Alpha Centauri, heliosphere,

First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...

Chandrayaan 1, Chandrayaan 2, K Sivan, Indian Space Research Organisation, permanently shadowed regions, water on the moon, NASA LCROSS, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Cassini spacecraft, lunar impact probe, DFSAR, neutron spectrometer, infrared spectrometer, regolith, Bullialdus crater, European Space Agency, NASA, hydroxyl ions, Mini-SAR, Moon Mineralogical Mapper, NASA Clementine, NASA Lunar Prospector, NASA Resource Prospector, Vikram lander, Pragyan rover,

How the Chandrayaans Are Linked to the Discovery of Water on the Moon

Jatan Mehta 15/10/2019

For a long time, scientists were almost certain there...

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ISRO Braces for Chandrayaan 2’s ’15 Minutes of Terror’ Tonight

Jatan Mehta 06/09/2019

The complexity and cost of such a robotic mission...

NewSpace India, Union budget 2020, Nirmala Sitharaman, Defence Space Research Organisation, Defence Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, PSLV, GSLV, Chandrayaan 3, Aditya 1, Aditya L1, Gaganyaan, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Arianespace, AS Kiran Kumar, K Sivan, private space, PSLv privatisation,

5 Unique Space Science Missions That ISRO Will Be Flying in the Near Future

Jatan Mehta 27/06/2019

Given ISRO's fairly nascent space science program, the boost...

Great Red Spot, Jupiter, NASA Juno, JIRAM, JunoCam, anticyclone, Sirius, microwave radiometer, Gemini Observatory, Cassini space probe, retrograde orbit, Jupiter south equatorial belt, Voyager 1,

Is the Solar System’s Largest Storm Dying?

Jatan Mehta 13/06/2019

The Great Red Spot is 1.3-times as wide as...

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Review: Those Magnificent Women and Their Stories That Must Be Told

Jatan Mehta 29/04/2019

Minnie Vaid's new book, which profiles some of the...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...