A new article documents the global wind patterns on any planet for the first time. Remote repogramming of the MAVEN spacecraft and its NGIMS instrument enabled the data collection. The results reveal ...

Today, a paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are ...

In 1686, long before satellites or supercomputers, Edmund Halley gathered thousands of ship logs from merchant fleets crossing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. By plotting wind directions from each ...