January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
.... Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society, pointed out in interviews that living on Mars would be like living in Antarctica, only worse, and questioned whether people would really want to live there permanently. The same point...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...-messenger With the recent discovery of high energy astrophysical neutrinos by the IceCube detector buried in the ices of Antarctica and the first direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO interferometer, we are at the dawn of another new...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
...are at hand: the Antarctic solution of having no international exploitation for the length of a moratorium (50 years in the Antarctica case), or the Deep Seabed solution of Article 136 of the Law of the Sea Convention which allows exploitation in ...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... sites of human exploration on the Moon. It may seem a bit premature to consider this, but nowadays 46,000 tourists go to Antarctica annually – something which would have certainly surprised Amundsen and Scott! It would not serve us well in the...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
.... “If the answer is we live off the land but we’re always dependent on tax dollars from home, then space is Antarctica. We have a base, and maybe even tourists, but it is not a place that is self-sustaining. If the answer is we can...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... planets and moons In 1976, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) programme began collecting meteorites in Antarctica. Today over 28,000 meteorites have been collected, allowing NASA to realise the tremendous diversity of resources locked...
