21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... given the green light for its JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - mission to study the ice-covered ...oceans with a view to applying that understanding to oceans on other moons and planets. "With InVADER, we bring next-generation space exploration ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... to realise next-generation telescopes or satellites capable of detecting the signatures of life, not only on Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but in exoplanets beyond the solar neighbourhood. However, given that the prospect of finding life...
11 October 2018
Voyager/Hello from Planet Earth (CD / DVD set)
... together, but space buffs will learn little from the text. Rather than read factoids on the moons of Jupiter, I would have liked to know what motivated the composer to write the music and perhaps a little of his...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...some four times the distance between the Earth and the Moon, at a reasonably gravitationally stable point known as Lagrange... own Solar System, JWST will turn to the icy moons Europa (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn), studying them for signs of ...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... the possibility of life forming on celestial bodies: from moons like our own giving planets stability and shielding them from...ice or below the surface ice cover of the icy moons of Jupiter for example. I was again very surprised by the endurance...
16 April 2020
China in Space
... station, bring back lunar rocks, assemble constellations of communications satellites and send spaceships to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and beyond…In space, China is the country to watch”. Observers of the ‘Middle Kingdom’ would do well to start...
