October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...the past several decades of high-resolution (25 cm) satellite imaging of Mars, it has been discovered that despite the low...NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover vary in thickness and brightness. The image covers an area roughly 60 cm across. Types of vein ...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...Heavy, the choreographed landing of the strap-on boosters and the image of Earth captured from a car orbiting the Sun. What...Watney sits alone contemplating the vast expanse of Mars in this image from the blockbuster movie, The Martian, based on the ...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... travel 500 metres, and then send back high definition images, thus kick-starting a low-cost 21st century approach ... no effort to preserve some of the early lunar exploration record. Images of the SpaceIL lunar lander/hopper. An early concept (left) ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
.... The look and feel of those diminutive plastic bricks triggers the ‘halcyon memory cells’ as much as any image, tune or fragrance. And now we’re all grown up, Lego is still there with a range of construction kits that celebrate...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... from Earth, detecting the energy signatures of life, and imaging oceans and continents. Its first target will be Proxima b,...Developers say the telescope will provide unparalleled resolution, with images more than 12 times sharper than those from the ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...US-Russian-Chinese relations sour. For many, ‘space’ conjures majestic images of the planets, stars and nebulae, the Apollo Moon landings,... political reality in space. The biggest stain on benign images of space technology and the Space Age is that it...
