December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...greenhouse effect on Mars is also a challenging task. The greenhouse effect involves absorption and re-emission of outgoing infrared radiation by a planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) are the two main greenhouse...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... be used to reinforce and protect the inflatable structure that deploys underneath from hazards such as micrometeorites and radiation. The architectural inspiration came from two examples of ancient ‘habitats’ - the Clochan beehive huts of the Irish...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
.... Models of binary stars will explain how physics works in the most extreme environments we can imagine Gravitational radiation has recently been detected from merging stellar-mass black holes, validating Einstein’s theory of General Relativity...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... of improvements specifically targeted to optimise the scientific observations, maximise the power/energy availability and minimise the radiation dose. Therefore, all numbers and dates associated with the latest analysis are not considered frozen...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...NASA Ames, will be evaluating the effects of deep space radiation on cells and bio-matter. Omotenashi, the Japanese-led ...challenges in the Jupiter system include the high-ionizing radiation due to Jupiter’s strong magnetic field, temperatures reaching...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... that fills all of space. It is an important source of data on the early universe because it is the oldest known electromagnetic radiation in the cosmos. Large parts of the CMB are at nearly the same temperature, indicating that distant parts...
