March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... need for an orbiting space station. But now let’s say you have lots of power (with a fusion plant or lots of solar cells) and decide to push electrons against the EMF, so that they spew out the...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... a team by not necessarily looking for experience but rather for motivation, solid background and youth. I needed to plant the seeds for a team that could grow and cover the next 15 years. I had to plan to cope...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... - the near infrared (band 5) in this image can be helpful for understanding vegetation and ecology because healthy plants reflect near-infrared light and the shortwave infrared (band 6) makes it easier to tell the difference between...
August 2016
Space for art
... on other planets. That incredibly special and ultimately important place is humanity’s own personal spaceship, Earth. Our plant is stunningly, overwhelmingly beautiful. Each orbit presented some new and different perspective of that beauty. Through...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... Earth becoming a small dot of light against a starry background. Fundamentally, humankind is not going to Mars just to plant a flag on the surface and collect a few samples. In preparation for the psychological isolation of a surface mission lasting...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... other biological science purposes such as a deep space radiation testing and to accommodate other organisms, tissues and plant growth studies. About the authors Dr Erica Rodgers is an aerospace engineer at NASA Langley Research Center where she...
