August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... far away from Earth – including giving birth to children and establishing families. It is located in the Amundsen Crater, as the crater is characterised by heavily terraced walls, where a protected cave could be created. The idea is to bring people...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...that could be considered is from Shackleton to Schrödinger Crater and back, lasting about 90 days and covering about...sights we have only imagined. A concept to explore dark lunar craters. Becoming Martian By 2069 humanity will have survived on Mars ...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... image. The region has been heavily influenced by the action of water. In addition to the drainage valleys, the crater to the right of centre was once filled by muddy sediments that later collapsed into the chaotic terrain...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... components need to function at extreme temperatures. One route to mitigate this requirement at least in part is to site equipment at a polar crater rim in near constant sunlight, and away from shadows where the temperature can be as low as -180C and...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... composition of the moonlet’s surface, perform the first radar probe within an asteroid, perform a close-up survey of the crater formed by DART’s impact, and characterise any other traces left by the spacecraft collision. The conventional method...
12 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
.... But at Ceres, we see something that is totally on a different scale. These bright spots don't fit into the cratering pattern. And we have not even been able to probe with our camera yet because it's much smaller...
