August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... (above) collected in the North Pacific subtropical gyre and (left) large ML items, mainly plastics, stranded on a secluded beach. Optical spectro-radiometric techniques These allow measurements of the spectral power distribution of a particular...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... reasoning at the institutional level in the assessment of risks”. [3] Moreover, I do not think these different temporal strands of action or thought are necessarily in mutual competition. Rather, they work together as a whole, whereby action...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... fact we were there at all was a victory over pessimism. The agenda itself was based on two parallel strands: the need to make politics happen and the need to make relationships even stronger. It’s worth observing that...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... to the damaging effects of X-radiation. The team found that Dsup was able to protect the tardigrade double stranded DNA from radiation-induced breaks under stresses of both radiation and desiccation. In 2019, an American team found...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... drop to drink,” from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the poetic tale of a sailor stranded on a ship surrounded by all the water of the ocean, but without a drop to drink. In some ways we’re a little like...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... part of the solution. They offer a ‘fail-safe’ approach that can guarantee that spacecraft do not get stranded in orbit. To facilitate the development of disposal services and reduce their risks, it is critical that future satellites are...
