June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
.... According to the interviewees in the study, output in the form of papers and its quality assessment through quantitative indicators such as publication and citation rates, defines the value of an astronomer (B). The need for this kind of output...
02 November 2016
How life on Mars might be 'sniffed out' by BILI
A new instrument known as the Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument, or BILI for short that is based on a remote sensing technique that the U.S. military currently use, ...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... like to finish this today.” We may assume, therefore, that use of the time category may serve as a stress indicator for cosmonauts in the third quarter of their flight due to the accumulation of psychophysiological fatigue. Tasks during long...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
...CME to maintain a high velocity all the way to STEREO-A. Analysis indicates that if Earth was at the location of STEREO-A this would ...the path of the July 2012 superstorm, but statistics would indicate that there are more on the way. NASA, US National...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... of liquid water hidden underneath a thick layer of ice and although it cannot be viewed directly, there are strong indications it is there. The moon’s surface geological features, for example, suggest that there is at least a ‘slushy’ ice layer...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... snapshots in time, that are iconic and indicative of the changes now underway in the space ... other examples that may not be so obvious but, once seen in context, are indicators of the titanic shift now underway. It happened at 5:28 am EDT on 30 April...
