June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
.... Cleanliness considerations will be applied throughout the spacecraft assembly phase in a clean room environment including constant nitrogen purging of the instruments right through to launch. The Solar Orbiter mechanical and thermal model in the...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... produces over 600 non-equilibrium chemical reactions in air, although only three components play a role: oxygen, nitrogen and water vapour. These chemical reactions can be ‘designed’ to some extent to yield mainly anti-microbial properties...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... of Earth’s; atmospheric systems would therefore need to maintain Earth-like internal conditions, approximately 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen, at roughly 101 kilopascals of pressure, in spite of the external environment. Local resources...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
...’s formation, 4.5 billion years ago. Mixed in are trace gaseous species of the most common elements (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur) and a few molecular compounds that are also commonly found in the solar system: methane, water...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
...information to fish farmers, national monitoring organisations, scientists, regulators and local communities. Fuelled by readily available nitrogen and phosphate, warm water temperatures and stable weather conditions, HAB outbreaks now occur annually...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... of time?) and access to essential elements - the basic elements needed for life as we know it: sulphur, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen. All of these criteria are met for Europa. One further fundamental ingredient that...
