February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... are little understood and not easy to model or predict A careful consideration of the risks of human reproduction in these environments and the physiological effects of reduced gravity on the human body must be addressed with special attention paid...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...technology used during a successful mission. Operating in a microgravity environment has many challenges not found on Earth, and performing ... Facility at KSC. An oxygen and steam-rich environment was created within the reactor for ignition conditions,...
21 November 2016
The grandest of canyons is found on Mercury with the aid of MESSENGER
... crater formed by a relatively recent impact – was found using stereo images from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its discovery reveals important clues as to the geologic history of the...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... of the campfires' temperature. Fortunately, another instrument on Solar Orbiter known as the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment, or SPICE instrument, does just that. "So we're eagerly awaiting our next data set," Auchère says. "The...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, a surface similar in appearance to that of the Moon, and being so perilously close to the Sun, it is hard to imagine that our smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System – Mercury – could once have ...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
... small overall, the worst-case estimate of eight percent shown for EOR-1 during the post-storm environment is a significant level of degradation equivalent to spending many years in GEO. Importantly, this degradation is accrued during the initial...
