April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
..., payload, or re-entry requirement. International cooperation The consortium has also scouted locations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and even further south in the Atlantic Portugal Space has been keen to emphasise cooperation between governments...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... Copernicus anthropogenic carbon dioxide-monitoring mission, CO2M. In addition, the agency will generate global atmospheric and ocean products from the future Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) and CRISTAL polar-monitoring missions. The...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
...life forms to evolve and to later seed the new oceans of the cooled-down Earth, and may explain why...in frozen sea water, at depths of 6.7 km in the Earth’s crust, at ocean depths greater than 10 km where the pressure is over 110 MPa and in extreme ...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... we need to survive. Mars, on the other hand, “possesses oceans of water frozen into its soil as permafrost, as well as vast...stop using plastics, plant more trees, clean up the oceans, restore the rainforests, ban industrial farming, eat as little...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... the classic location of the sunken city in the Atlantic Ocean, proposed an extraterrestrial origin to the Atlantean. In the ... discover a gold statue at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that points to the entrance of an underwater gallery leading ...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
... Spilker. An artist’s rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggested to have a global ocean and likely hydrothermal activity. A plume of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules sprays from fractures...
