August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... the surface and determining their location without fully knowing the structure that they pass through is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. The position of meteorite impacts on the other hand can be verified by overhead orbital...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... have been proven safe and effective against neurological ‘sequels’. The laws of biology it seems, can be every bit as difficult to circumvent as those of physics. A third cryogenic option seems more plausible: bypassing the need to deal with...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... to tell the story and then mounting them in the Perspex, they looked way more interesting and a bit more modern than the old Letraset boards that had been there for 20 years. Much of the...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... for some kind of conservation effort related to these first 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...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... painting in a very special way with imprints from a hammer he used on the Moon, training boots and little bits of Moon dust from the threads of his suit patch. A large part of the space community that is generally...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... use an estimate for the size of one of these to infer the size of the others. The Carrington Event is a bit special because, even though it did not occur in the modern age, observers did have magnetometers and...
