April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... but not its atmosphere. Mars on the other hand has no strong magnetic field to shield us from ions, no ozone layer to stop ultraviolet rays and only a thin atmosphere to absorb radiation. On the Moon there is no magnetic field, insignificant...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...ground level event. Energetic particles pummelled Earth’s polar ozone layer and spacecraft solar panels alike, and human intervention was...penetrated deep into Earth’s domain. Earth’s polar ozone layer remained disturbed for almost two months. The ...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
...rays, which caused global cooling and the destruction of the ozone layer, and resulted in a “Nebula Winter.” The Milky Way ...can be found in deep sea sediments, as an iridium-rich layer. Accordingly, the team have analysed a core sample of pelagic ...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... might be as ‘simple’ as coating it in a thin layer of silica aerogel. This would insulate the Red Planet’s surface helping...cold and frigid to maintain liquid water and there is no ozone layer to protect from harmful radiation. But that doesn’t mean ...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...that have been implicated in the destruction of stratospheric ozone on Earth, but which are also good greenhouse ...-rich atmosphere that would inhibit the development of an ozone layer, thereby effectively precluding human habitability. This is not ...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... sensing imaging of the upper atmosphere to study its meteoroid environment, and an education payload centred on detecting the ozone layer. …where the sky is black and the Earth’s horizon is curved, important applications exist… Second, we and our...
