October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... in their place. Space manufacturing would also have had access to virtually unlimited resources on the Moon, the asteroid belt and even Mars, and would have continued to create wealth and jobs as capability and facilities in space...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... centres for extreme adventure tourism. Since all other possible extraterrestrial locations of human settlement - such as the asteroid belt or the icy moons of the outer solar system - are considerably more hostile than Mars, Cockell’s argument...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
.... Ceres, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, holds the title of being the largest body in the asteroid belt and is designated a dwarf planet. It is located 250 million miles away from the sun. For the first...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... about how mysterious it is. But NASA’s Dawn mission is changing that, somewhat. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which immediately brings home its attraction. And the mission to Ceres has already been plenty interesting...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
Ceres, the largest known asteroid belt object, is, like Pluto before it, helping redefine what a dwarf planet looks like as new observations from the ...
