April 2018
Developing Mars
... crew use. In time, industries established at Omaha Crater will be able to vent oxygen byproduct, forming a protective local ozone layer within the crater. This sets the stage for a photosynthetic archipelago on the open crater floor...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... drew attention to historical environmental responses, such as global efforts to curb chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to protect the ozone layer, and the sudden return of wildlife during COVID-19 lockdowns as evidence of nature’s resilience. “When humans...
May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... studies show that satellites burning up in the atmosphere release pollutants that may affect the climate and ozone layer. In this sense, orbital debris is not just an astrophysical issue but an environmental one. Encouragingly, innovative solutions...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... flux of cosmic dust particles and cosmic rays, which caused global cooling and the destruction of the ozone layer, and resulted in a “Nebula Winter.” The Milky Way Galaxy has a disk with a radius of 10 kilo parsecs...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... be connected to the outside of the station to make daily observations for several years to come, on the levels of aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and water vapour in the stratosphere and troposphere high above Earth. The Dragon craft...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... far from habitable to terrestrial life at least. It is too cold and frigid to maintain liquid water and there is no ozone layer to protect from harmful radiation. But that doesn’t mean to say that a healthy population of plant and...
