March 2016
Space for art
... back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as ‘historic sites’. The discovery of Enceladus’ icy jets and their role in creating Saturn’s E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... salty ocean below Europa’s icy crust, the giant ice ravines on Miranda, or the geysers of Triton and Enceladus? Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet but a ‘dwarf planet’, but this does not stop it from being one...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... past) environments that could nourish biology. Planned missions to the outer solar system moons Europa and Enceladus are also motivated by the hope of finding life beyond Earth. But while we might discover living things...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... the surface of Mars, on moons orbiting the giant planets with a large subsurface ocean (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Titan), and also deep under the surface of the Earth. Once it was realised that there are...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... the basic conditions for life to get started, as is expected to be the case for the other ‘water worlds’, Enceladus, Ganymede and Europa. Future exploration Much has been gleaned from the missions to visit Titan so far...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan and the beguiling Enceladus belongs to the centuries to come, and to different people. Looking inward towards the Sun, we cannot live on Venus...
