October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... for it to support life (as we know it). Even so, it should be emphasised that although extra-terrestrial environments on Mars, Europa or even Enceladus may be considered ‘habitable’, it does not follow that such an environment contains life. For all...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... of suspicious phenomena under 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...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... 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, but to truly lift...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
..., kicking up some dust as they touch down, 52 years after the last time. A future lander on Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the 2030s. Extending borders The first missions for the pressurised rover will probably be driving...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... created using images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
.... At the opposite end of the Universe, in our own Solar System, JWST will turn to the icy moons Europa (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn), studying them for signs of submerged hydrothermal vents as part of our hunt for...
