April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...fact, it would probably require the same mixture of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur, ...as permafrost, as well as vast quantities of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, all in forms readily accessible to those clever ...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...to energise a light propellant, in this case, hydrogen. The concept follows principles long explored in programmes ...m/s, resulting in a specific impulse of approximately 900 seconds. The hydrogen is expelled at a mass flow rate of 37.48 kg/s, and the...
28 June 2016
Oxides discovered on Mars hint at an oxygen-rich past
...atmosphere and break water molecules down to its constituent parts; hydrogen and oxygen. As Mars' has a relatively low gravity, ...the rusty red dust that covers the surface today. The lighter hydrogen atoms on the other hand were lost from the planet. ...
28 December 2016
Discrepancies in data suggest less dark matter now than after the big bang
..., having decayed into neutrinos or hypothetical relativistic particles. In that case, the amount of dark matter in the era of hydrogen formation and today will be different," says the lead author of the research, Dmitry Gorbunov, a professor at MIPT...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
... result of that fly-by, not only the stars but also hydrogen gas was removed from the SMC. By measuring the offset between the ...RR Lyrae and hydrogen bridges, we can put constraints on the density of the ...
18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
...least five times, but the key propellant ingredient is no longer hydrogen, but methane. Some of the most common liquid propellants used...today are a combination of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen or highly refined kerosene (RP-1). SpaceX for example ...
