16 January 2024
For the Love of Mars - A Human History of the Red Planet
Given the plethora of books on Mars, one could be forgiven for asking why anyone would want to write another one. The author of this new book answered that question by observing that: “Other Mars books spent one or two sentences summing up ancient ...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
..., within a silica tetrahedral framework. Olivine is often the first mineral to crystalise from a magma: it ‘sees’ the earliest history. The first olivine to form is rich in magnesium. As the magma cools down olivine keeps crystallising, the melt...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
...into being. These included completing the second election in its history of a Head of Nation for another five-year term.... So go on - join our stellar adventure and help make space history. Editor’s note: full details of how to become a Resident of ...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... a rare opportunity to take some action quickly to grab this opportunity and in doing so change the post-ISS history of human spaceflight for decades to come. Chen Lan is an independent analyst. He created the Go Taikonauts! (www.go-taikonauts.com...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... 1997. All three rovers have provided evidence of the importance of water as an agent of mineralogic change in the early history of the planet In terms of serious roving capabilities, the surface exploration of Mars has been restricted to just three...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... became one of, if not the, most valuable companies in the history of the world and one of Europe’s most vicious expansionists. It...throughout the protracted and sometimes violent domestic political history of the Dutch republic. Dutch governors where ...
