October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... that brine to be potentially habitable. Knowing your salts Not only do salts help create the shallow subsurface liquid environments, they ...and minimum water activity of a brine composed of each salt. Excitingly, it turns out that a number of these...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... provide the global population with clean, sustainable and cost-competitive energy. About the author David Salt is a Senior Consultant in space systems and operations at Telespazio VEGA Deutschland GmbH (TPZV-D). He is currently part of the INTEGRAL...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... distance between our Sun and the Earth is one metre. The Sun would be the size of a grain of salt on this scale. Still, the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, would be more than 265 km away...
27 September 2015
Images taken by MRO’s HiRISE make case for salt water on Mars, NASA says
...: “We now have great opportunities to be in the right locations on Mars [to search for possible life].” The case for salt water on Mars, as laid out by NASA, is a fascinating one. Careful study of the images of dark streaks (which, incidentally...
12 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... an albedo of about 100 percent. But there are people who are holding out for salt — not necessarily table salt, but salts of various minerals that may be white in appearance. So we have sort of a dichotomy of opinion in the team as to whether...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
...Previous research has shown that the bright material is made of salts, and we think subsurface fluid activity transported it to the ...occurred during this process, scattering the surface with salt and ice particles that formed the Cerealia bright ...
