July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... weather is in its infancy and relies on our ability to understand the fundamental physics at work on the Sun, in the interplanetary medium and in the Earth’s magnetosphere. Enhancing our understanding of this star on our doorstep will increase our...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...able to undertake exploration on the Martian surface The station at Concordia in Antarctica is the closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration. ESA is studying the effects of isolation there to prepare for a mission to Mars While a Mars crew...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... which are also good greenhouse gases. This mechanism, though, would require innumerable and continuing numbers of interplanetary flights because the CFCs break down photolytically into smaller molecules. Manufacturing them on Mars might be somewhat...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... way to the comet surface. For me, this was the moment of great relief, seeing that after 12 years of interplanetary space travel Philae was ready to set foot on the comet.The operations team could now lean...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of this discussion and include consideration of the physical and psychological issues facing crewmembers embarking on interplanetary travel.6 Related to this are the values underpinning human exploration and colonization: questions of the conditions...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
...planetary astronomer Dr. Harold Reitsema, with 30 years of experience at Ball Aerospace in designing and building of interplanetary spacecraft and astronomical imaging detectors, to be Mission Director. Sentinel would be the first proposed deep space...
