January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
...all the volcanic centres of Mars, the small white rectangles indicate the location of the black and white panels b and d....lava flows coming from Arsia Mons. The volcanic centres are indicated in (c) by coloured dots to make the volcanic alignments ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...life. From Earth’s example, it’s clear that not all biosignatures signal the same information. Certain signatures indicate the presence of life at different stages of evolution. We can classify the list of proposed biosignatures according to the type...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... of the rock, changing the colour from red to white, while other parts remain red. A strong compositional indicator of wet, and probably neutral pH (neutral acidity) conditions at locations examined by both Curiosity and Opportunity, and perhaps...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
.... The team in Virginia saw that these initial studies had the potential to profoundly impact a variety of clinical indications that remain plagued by the threat of radiation exposure: high-dose radiation medical treatments, civilian nuclear accidents...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... administrator might get at most a bad performance review. There is nothing in the NASA/GAO record that would indicate that meaningful systems exist to ensure that safety responsibility is not subordinated to operations. The risks of dual-hatting...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... reflectance from the visible to the SWIR of dry and wet marine-harvested microplastics; the shaded regions indicate the main absorption features of plastics. Why monitoring marine litter is important Plastic ML is not a natural phenomenon but...
