September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...terrestrial Station), which aims to comprehensively study the medical, biological and psychological problems associated with human isolation and space limitation during simulated long-term space missions beyond Earth’s orbit. Currently, the Institute...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
...breathlessness, sweating, nausea, shaking, heart palpitations and unclear communication. This enhances feelings of claustrophobia, detachment and isolation and insomnia. Pareidolia & moiré effects can be caused by the bold black, white and grey lunar...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...accretion of pebble-sized objects until they reach their pebble isolation mass. When this mass is reached, gas accretion onto... then migrate into the inner disc have reached pebble isolation mass and therefore contain a gaseous envelope smaller than ...
17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
... planetary systems. Here, one small planet interacting with tiny dust particles can reproduce these rings in isolation, revealing its properties in an indirect way. This one and other similar experiments open new possibilities of characterisation...
22 June 2021
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
..., the author “lived, worked and slept in an isolated white dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates...incredible insights into… the nature of the boredom, dreams, isolation and irritation that arise despite the promise of scientific progress and...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... from the spacecraft, then a further layer of low-temperature foil and a support structure. The entire assembly is isolated or ‘thermally decoupled’ from the spacecraft using titanium ‘blades’ as supports. The sunward facing surface of the titanium...
