04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... and trajectory of the asteroid, Dermot and colleagues were able to sort them out in to about six families; Flora, Vesta, Nysa, Polana and Eulalia. The names refer to the biggest object in the bunch, once of which...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... just a question of sustaining human needs for water and natural resources; it is also a matter of sustaining endangered species of flora and fauna. They envision a world which we cohabitate with robots that are as smart as humans and possess...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... 10 km which formed the 180 km diameter Chicxulub crater. This collision caused the extinction of 75 per cent of Earth’s flora and fauna, including dinosaurs. Collisions with objects whose diameters range from hundreds of kilometres to a few metres...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... recommended to limit its scope. Apart from personal prayer, there is a need to examine a variety of aspects. Noah’s Ark - flora, fauna and other forms of life are our responsibility. We will take care of organisms and, when we settle...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
... on the physical and mental health of the residents while making the length of stay as comfortable as possible. Flora Münzer is a German student studying architecture (MSc) at TU Wien. Conclusion The international cooperation element of this study...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
...resistance to antibiotics increased by an average of 10 times. The above specifics did not involve the Gram-negative flora (Table 3). At the same time, the segregation stability of plasmid cointegrates formed as a result of in vitro studies performed...
