March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... resources available there are incommensurable - from Saturn’s rings, to Enceladus and its geysers, from Europa’s ocean, to Titan hydrocarbon lakes. There, too, it’s all about the water.
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... e.g. we can find evidence of whether there is a stratosphere that causes a temperature inversion, as in the case of the Earth, Titan or the giant planets. A need for data and an opportunity We haven’t yet found any discernible pattern linking ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... km, its diameter is only about two fifths that of the Earth - even Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and Saturn’s Titan are bigger. And although Mercury can appear as a very bright object when viewed from Earth, its...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... programme started with two Air Force-contributed large intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) rockets, Atlas and Titan – used on the Mercury and Gemini missions. The astronauts were military fighter pilots. With the start...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... be found. We cannot time-travel to the universe’s beginning to observe inflation and no conceivable experiment can approach the titanic energies required to test the Big Bang. Conversely, a faster speed of light in the early universe would explain...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
.... But halfway through this process, Falkenberg’s creative trajectory took an unexpected turn. It was during the writing of Titan – Monsoons and Dunes that “something just did not feel right”. Imaginatively, she had been travelling...
