October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... travellers had thus far not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan and the beguiling Enceladus belongs to the centuries to come, and to different people. Looking inward towards the...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
.... Continuing the great discoveries, in 2003, the planetary radar system found evidence of hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan. And a few years later, complex organic molecules were discovered in Arp 220, the first Megamaser galaxy...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... and advanced visualisation. Scottish companies have even supplied batteries that are on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Astronaut Drew Feustel behind the wheel of a NASCAR racing vehicle. Developments in spacesuit technology have seen adoption...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
..., radiation-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the rotation of residential settlement modules, that...
26 April 2016
Sulphur chemistry could be the key to clouds on many exoplanets
.... Accordingly, the UV irradiation of 51 Eri b is high, about twice what it is at Earth today, or about 200 times what it is at Titan. As similar studies have suggested, carbon monoxide is expected to be abundant in its atmosphere, however this cannot...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... than 400 years and ever since then it has captured the imagination of all those fascinated by the titanic explosion of a dying star. Observations of the supernova remnant have shown that the central structure within SN 1987A...