January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... 1600 km (for comparison the radius of the Moon is about 1737 km) with an iron content of around 80 percent, or it was larger at 2000 km radius with a lower iron content (around 50 percent). Map (a) of all the volcanic centres of Mars, the...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
...that the Moon's subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, than researchers previously thought. The origin of the...but it does reduce the uncertainty in the distribution of iron and titanium oxides in the lunar subsurface. "It really...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...colonists of the New World used locally-sourced water, timber, iron ore and coal to survive and eventually prosper, it seems ... present in lunar and Martian soil and those such as iron, manganese and zinc would allow for protected plant growth under...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
..., the Internet, digital telecommunications networks and so on? Joseph Pelton sees the answers in space technology and cooperation. It is ironic that, at a time when human knowledge and technology have risen to their highest levels, we are also at our...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... expected to run without any assistance or servicing until the end of their lives. It conjures up images of mountains of scrap iron, kept in check only by the unaffordability of car ownership for the masses. This is the status quo in satellites...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
..., the Moon and other bodies promise untold fortunes. The Moon, for example, contains metals such as iron, titanium and aluminium. Its surface seemingly has an abundance of water-ice that can be broken down into...
