February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... his partners leased the Russian Mir space facility). It only makes sense that his dreams include planting a tree on Mars and growing flowers on the Moon. All firsts borne out of a mind with no limitations. To all...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago but also extinguished over 70 per cent of all plant and animal species that were alive at the time. This was the worst of the Earth’s five...
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...
