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...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... and interconnected. During his PhD in information and communication technology, Suvanam designed electronic systems for Venus exploration missions using a material called silicon carbide. Moving on to a postdoctoral position, he studied CZTS (copper...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
..., not to mention too regulated to serve as a genuine frontier. Even in Antarctica, he says, “the cops are too close.” Venus is too damn hot. The Moon doesn’t have enough of the elements we need to survive. Mars, on the other...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... time on all its objects, including not only in the Earth-Moon system itself, but also on Mars, Venus, etc. Such a time zone system would completely eliminate any navigation errors and related incidents based...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
...It existed purely due to optical illusion. There is also the optical illusion recorded by Galileo – wherein for earthlings, Venus appears larger than enormous Jupiter to the naked eye. Perception is a tough thing in space. Some mistakes or perception...
