February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... Life Support System (ECLSS) installed in the International Space Station (ISS) produces oxygen and water by recycling carbon dioxide and urine; a similar system will be needed for long spaceflights. The idea of a bioregenerative LSS (BLSS) was...
23 September 2019
Venus may once have had oceans says a new study
... dense atmosphere, consisting of more than 96 percent carbon dioxide intermingled with sulphuric acid that is opaque to visible ... events approximately 700-750 million years ago whereby carbon dioxide stored in the planet’s rocks was released en...
07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... matter that may be present in Enceladus' core and that could be partially turned into dihydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide through the hydrothermal process. This hypothesis is very plausible if it turns out that Enceladus formed through the...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
...ía said. "We still haven't been able to build reliable life-support systems for a lengthy mission to Mars, such as carbon dioxide scrubbers to keep air breathable for long periods without replacements. The space station is the best place...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... oceans." EUMETSAT will also operate, process and disseminate the data from the future Copernicus anthropogenic carbon dioxide-monitoring mission, CO2M. In addition, the agency will generate global atmospheric and ocean products from the...
06 October 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 is awarded for climate and other complex phenomena
.... His methods have been used to prove that the increased temperature in the atmosphere is due to human emissions of carbon dioxide. Around 1980, Giorgio Parisi discovered hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. His discoveries are among the...
