08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
..., four elements alone make up almost 90 percent of the Earth's uppermost portion, or crust; oxygen, silicon, aluminum and iron. Iron can also be found on all of our terrestrial neighbours in varying amounts. Mercury’s core for instance contains more...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... to the Roman mythological messenger Mercury). MESSENGER was the first spacecraft with a single aim of studying the iron planet. Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER revealed the presence of distinct geochemical terrains and volcanic deposits estimated...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
Back in 2007, both the US and UK space agencies were finding that their aspirations to explore were being hindered by fiscal restraints and competing science demands. I was informally asked, as a project financier, to help find a way through it. ...
December 2014
Necessity is the mother of invention
...to develop the performance capabilities for interception of short-range rockets within a very short timescale. Creating the Iron Dome system meant overcoming a number of major challenges. We would need to develop a new technology for the interception...
11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
... l’Université de Genève, found that WASP-76b has an iron absorption signal at the dayside-to-nightside transition, but that this ...a lot more common as the tool used to detect the iron rain, ESPRESSO — the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and ...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
...(ESO’s VLT), the data has shown traces of iron and nickel in the atmospheres of comets at distances ... the comet nucleus, sublimating at a rather low temperature and releasing iron and nickel in about the same proportions, explains Damien Hutsemékers, ...
