December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...potentially suffer an almost osteoporosis-type consequence where calcium leaches out of bone mass and enters the ... zero-g flight without exercise. For the human body, increased calcium in the bloodstream could lead to renal stones, constipation and ...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... two topics were interconnected. Metabolic systems included bio-reactors and a biological material as 3D printer material based on calcium carbonate, acid and ethanol. The CO2 produced during the mixing of this bio-printer material is subsequently...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... only in 4.5 percent of embryos. Apart from the obvious gravity factor, this was also linked to a decay of calcium content in the adult newt body, in particular in the skeleton, observed during spaceflight. Likewise, another experiment observed ...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...which is highly sensitive to ionising radiation, using an optimal mineral composition, primarily in terms of iron, iodine, potassium and calcium prevent thyroid gland damage by introducing organic iodine into the body with food (seafood, seaweed, sea...
07 October 2019
Salty rocks found by Curiosity supports theory that Mars once had vast lakes
... was available at that period in Mars’ history. Within these sedimentary rocks, Rapin and colleagues found an enrichment of calcium sulphate and magnesium sulphate which so far have not been found in the same form and abundance...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
... team are eventually aiming to release up to 2 kilograms of calcium carbonate into the stratosphere and will use the SCoPEx balloon to... warming. For this reason, the team settled on using calcium carbonate (CaCO3) a calcite mineral also known as chalk...
