18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... possible by using atomic chronometers that help scientists date events. Once such chronometer is the radioactive isotope aluminum-26. Radioactive isotopes are by their very nature unstable and will decay into daughter products, so that eventually...
29 January 2020
Material older than the Sun found unexpectedly where it shouldn't be
... in St. Louis, have found them where they are not expected to be; in an inclusion or a chunk within a meteorite, called a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) and according to current theory CAIs are one of the first solids to have condensed...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... UFOs are pieces of plastic insulation that I had cut off when I removed the junction box!” The aluminum coating of each piece of plastic insulation reflected some light, and this was enough to make the pieces...
August 2016
Space for art
'EARTh from space’ is the theme of all of my artwork and lies at the heart of my own motivation to share the overwhelmingly impressive experience I was blessed to have while living, working and flying in space. The spaceflight experience is ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... an appreciable sublimation rate. Sublimated water vapour enters the tent and migrates to attached cold traps, large aluminum tanks, where it refreezes. The cold trap tanks are mounted on a small vehicle, the ice hauler. Once...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
...ESA’s Advanced Manufacturing cross-cutting initiative. Fungi/bacteria and severe corrosion and microbiological damage to aluminum in the International Space Station. Key enabling technology Additive manufacturing (AM) - otherwise known as 3D printing...
