January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... Moon, to reduce the amount of supplies that they must carry. On the way, they will be exposed to more radiation than has ever been experienced in human spaceflight. They will need protection from that exposure, and...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... leads to the second action to address Earth’s energy imbalance: reducing the incoming solar energy through solar radiation management (SRM). SRM is a type of geoengineering and it can be accomplished in two broad ways. The first is to increase the...
03 November 2016
MUSE instrument produces spectacular new images of the Carina Nebula
... stars are known to have a considerable effect on their surroundings, as they tend to blast out large quantities of ionising radiation. However, observing this effect has been proven difficult. McLeod's team analysed the effect of this energetic...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... powerful enough to run classic terrestrial software yet be safe enough that occasional restarts due to faulty software or radiation effects would be acceptable. No idea, no matter how outside-thebox, will be rejected a priori. The OPS-SAT objective...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... to measuring Earth’s wind fields. EarthCARE: With a target launch date in 2018, the Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is being implemented in cooperation with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Its aim...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... that remain in those rooms (using various cleaning methods, such as the before-mentioned cleaning agents, plus radiation, etc.) has led to the opposite of the desired effect: scientists accidentally ended up ‘breeding’ a number of very resistant...
