November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... belongs to all humanity. In contrast so much else from those first landings will be very well-preserved. Without wind, water or weather to erode the soil, equipment, including cameras and even urine bags, the medals, the...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
... up the Lunar Surface Drill. The white box-type object at the bottom of the shot is the Solar Wind Spectrometer and to the right of that is the Heat Flow Electronics box. Mount Hadley and the Swann...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... space can alleviate issues of scarcity and environmental damage of fossil fuels. And unlike terrestrial solar and wind power, space solar power (SSP) is well suited for base load and requires a much less intrusive...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... majority of the impact craters on Mars are filled by lava and/or by basaltic sands of volcanic origin transported by the wind. The solar arrays on NASA’s InSight lander are deployed in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... formation of stars through nuclear fusion reactions, towards the ejection of stellar debris into interstellar space via winds and supernova explosions. Interstellar gas, enriched with newly produced nuclei, will eventually cool down to form...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... of this restriction and what can be done to improve the system? The intense fires and persistent southerly winds have wafted extraordinary amounts of smoke north over Canada’s Northwest Territories and Yukon and Nunavut provinces...
