23 August 2021
Earth's magnetic field weakens every 200 million years, new study says
... in strength allows more energetic particles into the upper atmosphere, which results in a break down of the ozone layer. The stratospheric ozone layer is Earth's “sunscreen” and without one, there is nothing to help shield life on Earth from harmful...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... be sufficient to launch 100-200 carrier rockets of this type for the complete destruction of the ozone layer. In addition to extinguishing ozone, rocket launches also change the physical chemistry of the upper atmosphere, causing turbulence in the...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... signed the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. Product alternatives were found and the problem was largely... solved, although only now are we seeing the ozone layer recover. Today, we are offered a bleak future by ...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... not offer sufficient protection from any incendiary emission. However, there is still hope. "In principle, an exoplanet with an ozone layer that covers only the equatorial region may still be habitable," Carone explains. And with the combination...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... ‘skin’ for our lives. We would not exist except for the protection that our atmosphere and ozone layer provide us against the Sun’s radiation. Modern society is heavily dependent on a sophisticated electronic infrastructure that is highly vulnerable...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
...sulphates as light-blocking particles runs the risk of ozone loss and heating of the lower tropical stratosphere. ... the stratosphere, it might help replenish the ozone layer by reacting with ozone-destroying molecules, say SCoPEx scientists in a ...
