November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... system. At around 4,880 km, its diameter is only about two fifths that of the Earth - even Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and Saturn’s Titan are bigger. And although Mercury can appear as a very bright object when viewed...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... phenomena under the surface of Mars, on moons orbiting the giant planets with a large subsurface ocean (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Titan), and also deep under the surface of the Earth. Once it was realised that...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... in front of her. Meanwhile, art director and 3D animation artist Bell contributed glorious 3D works to the video accompanying Ganymede. “It’s the cooperative spirit that’s going on with this symphony, not just the healing vibrations in music, but...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... basic conditions for life to get started, as is expected to be the case for the other ‘water worlds’, Enceladus, Ganymede and Europa. Future exploration Much has been gleaned from the missions to visit Titan so far, but...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... four Galilean moons was created using images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... for its JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - mission to study the ice-covered world along with Ganymede, Callisto and now NASA has given the go-ahead for its Europa Clipper spacecraft to probe it too...
