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With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and Mars
These Tiny Disks Could Explore the ‘Ignorosphere’ That Planes and Satellites Can’t Reach
With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and Mars
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August 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and Mars
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☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
go.nature.com/4fw64eU
☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
go.nature.com/4fw64eU
Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 13 August 2025
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August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This week on the pod 🔊
☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
go.nature.com/4fw64eU
☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
go.nature.com/4fw64eU
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These devices could help to probe the ‘ignorosphere’, a layer of ultra-thin air that has largely escaped exploration by balloons, aircraft and satellites
go.nature.com/47q0Hfh
go.nature.com/47q0Hfh
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
Design could help to probe the ‘ignorosphere’, a layer of ultra-thin air that has largely escaped exploration by balloons, aircraft and satellites.
go.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
These devices could help to probe the ‘ignorosphere’, a layer of ultra-thin air that has largely escaped exploration by balloons, aircraft and satellites
go.nature.com/47q0Hfh
go.nature.com/47q0Hfh
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A physics phenomenon discovered 150 years ago allows tiny objects to levitate using just sunlight – and now it could enable swarms of sensors to explore Earth’s long-neglected upper atmosphere.
Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using sunlight alone
A physics phenomenon discovered 150 years ago allows tiny objects to levitate using just sunlight – and now it could enable swarms of sensors to explore part of Earth’s long-neglected upper atmosphere
www.newscientist.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A physics phenomenon discovered 150 years ago allows tiny objects to levitate using just sunlight – and now it could enable swarms of sensors to explore Earth’s long-neglected upper atmosphere.
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Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space https://gizmodo.com/scientists-unveil-wild-new-way-to-explore-the-edge-of-space-2000642161
Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space
Engineers have crafted a tiny, lightweight device that only requires sunlight to explore parts of the atmosphere that are typically hard to reach.
gizmodo.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space https://gizmodo.com/scientists-unveil-wild-new-way-to-explore-the-edge-of-space-2000642161
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Nature research paper: Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions
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Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions - Nature
A photophoretic aircraft that can levitate via thermal transpiration is achieved under near-space conditions, providing a potential platform for climate sensing, communications and Martian exploration.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nature research paper: Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions
go.nature.com/45Pwqp2
go.nature.com/45Pwqp2