29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... and, later, “programming a Commodore 64…to generate the monthly sky map over Delhi for a national newspaper”. Her curiosity and talent led eventually to MIT, Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in astrophysics. Recognising that there are many books...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
..., the first volume bearing the subtitle “The First Five Decades” and the second “From Spirit to Curiosity”. Although volume 1, which covers 1953 to 2003, was first published in 2012, it is now being remarketed with its...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... be tempered with the knowledge that the legacy of Opportunity continues – both on the surface of Mars with the Curiosity rover and InSight lander – and in the clean rooms of JPL, where the upcoming Mars 2020 rover...
15 June 2020
Destined for the Stars
... and well-researched treatise, but many will find the author’s conflation of the collective joy of scientific curiosity and religious fervour a leap-of-faith too far.
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... UAE's Hope mission makes up the trio of missions heading to Mars this month, Perseverance is the successor to NASA’s Curiosity rover, and will head to the 49 kilometre wide Jezero crater to seek signs of ancient life on the Red...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... some of the most detailed meteorological data ever collected on Mars. Together with weather instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity rover and its new Perseverance rover, which lands on 18 February, the three spacecraft will create the...
