December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... atmosphere, similar in pressure on the surface to that at Earth’s stratospheric altitudes. It was also found that Mars has no radiation belts. Rather, its interaction with its space environment is more like those of comets and Venus, where...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
.... On the way, they will be exposed to more radiation than has ever been experienced in human spaceflight. They will... The Curiosity rover has an instrument called RAD, which measured radiation all the way to Mars and is still providing daily readings...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... equipped with scientific instrumentation, but the thermal and radiation environment close to the Sun, coupled with the...facility. Side view of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, with the radiator and the three openings of the StarTracker camera system, to...
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...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
...Van Allen belts as the major source of intense radiation, the nanosatellite systems still function reliably, demonstrating a ...Van Allen belts as the major source of intense radiation, the nanosatellite systems still function reliably Dr Iztok ...
