October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... soil will be vital for protecting future research bases and colonies from both solar storms and cosmic rays, plus micrometeoroids. Working with diggers and excavators in the harsh airless worlds will require great astronaut...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... to the Moon or Mars face three sources of naturally occurring radiation which can threaten their health: galactic cosmic rays (GCR), solar particle events (SPE), and trapped radiation in the Van Allen belts. Depending on a variety of factors...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... protected from space radiation by the Earth’s magnetosphere. Mars has no magnetosphere and a very thin atmosphere, so galactic cosmic rays, solar particles, and ultraviolet radiation hit its surface at nearly full strength. All serious designs for...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
.... Past projects at the mine have ranged from the search for Dark Matter in the Universe, to studies of cosmic rays and climate. Now astrobiology and life in extreme environments can be added to the impressive list, as Peter Edwards...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... amounts of water or ice. It is likely that its dark surface is now reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays as it has been traversing interstellar space. In fact our Solar System could be the first star system that...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
.... Coupled with measurements from the probes other instruments – the low energy charged particle instrument, the cosmic ray subsystem and the magnetometer – it was enough evidence to support the conclusion that Voyager 2 has crossed the...
