04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
.... One of the fundamental ingredients of life as we know it are amino acids; a simple organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, that build on one another to form proteins. To start the building process though, amino acids...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
...’s clouds. “The presence of even a few parts per billion of PH3 is completely unexpected for an oxidised atmosphere (where oxygen-containing compounds greatly dominate over hydrogen-containing ones),” write the authors in the their research paper...
08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
... of the deeper layers of Earth, four elements alone make up almost 90 percent of the Earth's uppermost portion, or crust; oxygen, silicon, aluminum and iron. Iron can also be found on all of our terrestrial neighbours in varying amounts. Mercury...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...landscape is terraformed (in about two minutes) by the release of oxygen from the alien turbidium generators, which Arnold coaxes back to ...can break these down into three categories: climate, oxygen and other factors. Let’s start with climate. Mars...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... has a methane content of 90-98%. Together with liquid oxygen, this fuel allows for the creation of new, highly... decided to create a new engine, which would use existing oxygen-hydrogen KVD1 7.5 ton traction engines, which were successfully operated ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
...significant near-term use is as propellant. Water’s constituents, oxygen and hydrogen, when separated and liquified, are the most ...any fluid commodities other than liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants. In addition, ULA has perfected the ...
