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...
31 December 2019
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...
