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...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... good. “High-resolution gravity data obtained during Dawn’s extended mission revealed an abundance of dense material — that is, salts and rock particles — in the lower crust of Ceres, suggesting that material is reaching saturation in the ocean and...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... remains solid. A current is then passed through the material, the oxygen is extracted and it migrates across the salt to be collected at an anode (a point of positive charge). Because the rock doesn’t need to be melted first, like many traditional...
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...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
... to contend with than the variety that live in salt lakes on our planet. Despite this, could similar life...got established on Mars and managed to survive in these underground salt-laden refuges? Eriita Jones at the University of South Australia...
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...
