October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology needed to extract oxygen from the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere of Mars. They will need tools to conduct scientific research. And, of course, they’ll need a launch...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
..., cloudy atmosphere which obscures its surface, so it could once be depicted with oceans of soda-water (because of the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere) or even with lush prehistoric jungles; or perhaps it was a wind-blown dust-desert, with rocks...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... about 38 per cent of Earth’s gravity, which is better physiologically for humans than the Moon. It has an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a more Earth-equivalent day and night cycle (a Martian day is 24 hours and 39 minutes). Daytime temperatures...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
The EDEN ISS consortium will design and test essential controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technologies using an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) cultivation system for potential testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... The wavelength range will allow detections of all the expected atmospheric gases, including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide, as well as exotic metallic compounds such as titanium monoxide, vanadium...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... to monitor and maintain the colony’s internal environmental conditions. The native Martian atmosphere is largely composed of carbon dioxide and it maintains a pressure only one percent of Earth’s; atmospheric systems would therefore need to maintain...
