April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...light but we are protected from most of it by Earth’s ozone layer. One of the greatest threats to future humans living away ...has no strong magnetic field to shield us from ions, no ozone layer to stop ultraviolet rays and only a thin atmosphere to ...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... with high vertical resolution. GOME-2, also developed by ESA is the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2, measuring profiles and columnar amounts of ozone and other atmospheric constituents; and ASCAT is the ESA Advanced SCATterometer measuring the...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...called ground level event. Energetic particles pummelled Earth’s polar ozone layer and spacecraft solar panels alike, and human intervention... penetrated deep into Earth’s domain. Earth’s polar ozone layer remained disturbed for almost two months. The ...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... launcher in which altitude, the atmospheric mechanisms linking these emissions to specific indicators, like global warming potential or ozone depletion, are highly complex and not yet well understood. Astronaut Alexander Gerst takes a selfie with...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... sensing imaging of the upper atmosphere to study its meteoroid environment, and an education payload centred on detecting the ozone layer. …where the sky is black and the Earth’s horizon is curved, important applications exist… Second, we and...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... to disable satellites, increase the risk of cancer and result in genetic mutation. In regions of the planet near the ozone hole, skin cancer is 40 per cent higher than the rest of the world. Also, increased genetic mutations...
