April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... Luna 25, 26, 27 and 28 was repeatedly delayed and these missions have still to fly, while Venera D, a long-duration Venus lander first designed in the 1980s, is not due to appear until the late 2020s. The retirement of the...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... also play an important role in churning up the chemical structure on this mammoth moon. Like the terrestrial atmospheres of Venus, Earth and Mars, Hadley cells also dominate the meridional circulation on Titan, exhibiting a large variety in strength...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
.... He has also worked on the robotic exploration of planets, including a Venusian atmospheric glider, a floating habitat design for Venus and transit basecamp on Phobos to further human exploration missions.
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... return, but if another Scorpion (or a specialist boost stage) contributes to the initial heliocentric injection, then Mars and Venus orbits could be within reach. The Mars mission would have sufficient payload for specialised landing systems...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... Enceladus belongs to the centuries to come, and to different people. Looking inward towards the Sun, we cannot live on Venus or Mercury. For humans, Earth marks the inner boundary of our reach into the solar system. Artist...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... impacts, which may have blown away most of the crust of Mercury, or resulted in flipping the rotational axis of Venus, or created the lowlands of Mars in the northern hemisphere. The leading theory for the origin of the Earth...
