March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... of seasonal changes in the carbon balance of southern Amazonia, megacity CO2 fluxes, CO2 and CH4 ratios in wildfire plumes, and reduced carbon uptake during the 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer due to the heat wave in Eurasia...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... (short duration plasma channels), the ionosphere (ionised by radiation from the Sun), discharges in sandstorms and in volcanic plumes, etc. Man-made plasmas can be simple everyday devices like neon lights, plasma screens in televisions, production...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... shattered with the awesome roar and thunder of the powerful rocket as it climbed higher and higher on a yellowish plume of smoke. It was fire and thunder. Many were gathered on the terraces of the nearby buildings of the spaceport...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... Cabeus crater where a spent Centaur upper stage was crashed to examine the spectral content of the ejecta plume. Water content was measured in the 5-10 percent range. In addition, many asteroids, including NEOs, are thought to contain...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... and obtain detailed surface imagery for candidate landing sites, surface striations/lines and look for plumes. Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... is indicated. This is where a spent Centaur upper stage was crashed to examine the spectral content of the ejecta plume and water content, which was measured in the 5-10 percent range. Water’s constituents, oxygen and hydrogen, when...
