February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... returned from rover activities (such as Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity) but are challenging to determine due to the absence of... Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on board the Curiosity rover, which obtained some high-magnification images of the...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...young scientist Yami, while she is monitoring transmissions from Mars Curiosity rover. Now, the history of how Cosmo got to ...’ in an elite space learning academy, where intellectual curiosity, imagination, and pursuit of knowledge are rewarded. Even...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... too, including China. After India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), it was this flight which aroused more curiosity and public interest compared to some of the other Indian space science missions. Only three of the 104...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
Views of space weather have undergone significant changes, transforming it from scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, ...
September 2026
Asgardia – from vision to action
... tuned in to watch the occasion, some out of interest, some with bemusement and perhaps a proportion out of sheer curiosity. All these years later we’re still here – and with more experience functioning as a digital democracy than any...
September 2026
Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth
... the Moon, commercial space stations and, ultimately, voyages to Mars, reproduction can no longer be regarded as a hypothetical curiosity. If people are to live beyond Earth rather than simply visit it, they must eventually be able to conceive, carry...
