27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
...coating surfaces in a radiation-absorbing fungus found at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor nearly three decades ago. Radiation comes in two ... and around Earth, like those of the failed Russian nuclear plant that suffered a meltdown in the 80s and on the...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... its launch, SPOT 1 was tasked with acquiring the first 10 m images after the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. SPOT 1 demonstrated one of the main benefits of commercial remote sensing for intelligence missions: that...
