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...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... go to Mars (1953), which among other things features a beauty contest curiously not on the Martian surface but on Venus; and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), in which the Martian leaders purloin Santa to give their...
