August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...Perhaps so much so, that it will not be fully understood for some time. At the least, I hope it will stimulate curiosity about the possibilities of movement on Earth and in space. I considered filming on a parabolic flight, but parabolic flights aren...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...the mission will be important. The RAD instrument on the Curiosity rover provided radiation data on its flight to Mars, ...Apollo or the wings of the Space Shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ to the Martian surface, ...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... descent, however, will look less like InSight’s than that of the Curiosity rover in 2012. While the Mars 2020 heat shield appears nearly identical to Curiosity’s, and matches its 4.5 metre girth for a planetary mission record...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
...,” says Trokhimovskiy. The observations analysed by the two different teams were mostly performed at different times to NASA’s Curiosity rover, but there is no direct disagreement between missions as the TGO data cannot account for large plumes...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... geochemistry and mineralogy of Mars and searching for potential evidence of past life. Recent discoveries by the NASA Curiosity rover such as habitable environments on Mars, large lakes in the distant past, and sporadic releases of methane have...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... infrastructure, then our economies would be radically transformed within 20 years and secular stagnation would again become a curiosity of economists. We have truly tried everything else as our leading economists admit, now is the time to do the...
