December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...loses atmosphere continually through its interactions with the solar wind. Replacing this magnetic field is once again a daunting... although one might conceivably be able to block the solar wind by constructing a planet-sized shield at the L1 Lagrange ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...is needed. As with a tree bent by the wind, the larger section is at the bottom where the wind loading is high. Much lighter structures, the branches,... are ‘built’ on top of the tree, where wind loads are minimal. The lesson was learnt: to take ...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
...the technology will work. The stations rely only on solar and wind power and, during the endless day in the polar summer,...found using cold-resistant batteries that buffer energy from wind-generated power during the windy periods. What sounds perfectly...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...magnetosphere to allow an atmosphere to remain in place so the solar wind strips off the atmosphere on a continuous basis. But if we ... a shield for Mars to protect it from the solar wind and radiation, over time a natural new atmosphere could form...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... that the observed gas may be associated with a disk wind gas accelerated at the base. The team also note that...point to these particular COM emission lines as tracing winds and outflowing material, not infalling material onto the protostar, ...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... often outflows are produced by the star as it settles into its red giant phase of life. As the fast wind collides with the earlier produced material it forms a dense ring of material and, at present the shockwave generated...
