January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... crater via Herschel crater and Farah Vallis - features that do not seem to be taken into account before Curiosity touched down on the Martian surface. And this is not the only example of lava filled craters. Indeed...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... Moon The ‘Moon-shot’ project has featured prominently in my career over the last six years but my curiosity and the invitations of other organisations have led to several ongoing space projects running concurrently under the...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... to go back to ROOM issue #1 (7) 2016 and read space artist David Hardy’s article, ‘Why we need space artists’. In ‘Curiosity: The Moment of Creation’, Kara Szathmary notes that scientists are like children, examining the details of what...
September 2018
ROOM helps raise student space awareness
... of scientific knowledge, fuel considerable uncertainties, and so are regarded by many as being controversial and a source of curiosity and even outright bewilderment. One of the main features of this project is that it aims to encourage young...
November 2018
Pole star rising
... on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has been produced by a start-up founded by Polish scientists, Creotech Instruments. The Curiosity Mars Rover is fitted with infrared detectors manufactured by Poland’s VIGO System, and the Mars Express mission...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... reference and the origin of human beings. And space will remain the horizon of man’s conquests and curiosity, the mirror of his hopes and fears. German philosopher Edmund Husserl, who questioned Earth’s status from...
