12 July 2015
The 18 quintillion planets in ‘No Man’s Sky’: how Hello Games can expand understanding of space travel
... see below) “No Man’s Sky” could be the first game to genuinely address, and, over the course of time, mould, human perception of space and the actual distances contained therein. If you’re a science teacher trying to explain space...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
... been 'erased'? Scientists are now looking to Ceres' peculiar composition and internal evolution as a potential answer to the re-moulding of its surface. Before Dawn even arrived at Ceres, remote sensing from Earth had already determined that...
27 August 2018
Meteorites give clues as to how Jupiter was built
... until they reach a certain mass. But what sizes these solids are and how long it takes to mould together a planet’s core is still a major sticking point in planet formation theories. When it comes to size, there seems...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...these distinctive features. Those signs have been spotted in Lomonosov crater; a huge depression, likely moulded by a 14.5-by-19 kilometre meteor, surrounded by a substantial region of relatively smooth terrain known as Vastitas Boreali – the largest...
29 March 2018
North American X-15 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... pilots and astronauts of the early Space Age were made from a different – and long-ago-broken - mould. The author sums up the significance of the X-15 quite nicely by pointing out that the programme could not...
01 January 2020
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
...’, which was slightly annoying to begin with: I thought, ‘why am I having to build this when a single piece of accurately moulded plastic would have done the job?’ But as I constructed a crater – in typical Lego pixelated style – I realised that...
