April 2018
Developing Mars
... crew use. In time, industries established at Omaha Crater will be able to vent oxygen byproduct, forming a protective local ozone layer within the crater. This sets the stage for a photosynthetic archipelago on the open crater floor...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... flux of cosmic dust particles and cosmic rays, which caused global cooling and the destruction of the ozone layer, and resulted in a “Nebula Winter.” The Milky Way Galaxy has a disk with a radius of 10 kilo parsecs...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... be connected to the outside of the station to make daily observations for several years to come, on the levels of aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and water vapour in the stratosphere and troposphere high above Earth. The Dragon craft...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... far from habitable to terrestrial life at least. It is too cold and frigid to maintain liquid water and there is no ozone layer to protect from harmful radiation. But that doesn’t mean to say that a healthy population of plant and...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... multiband camera called the Emirates eXploration Imager (EXI). Designed to measure the planet's water ice and ozone abundances, it will focus on Mars’ lower atmosphere. Finally, the Emirates Mars InfraRed Spectrometer (EMIRS), that was...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... allow Earth’s surface to be flooded with powerful radiation blasting out from the Sun. The destruction of the ozone layer would produce nitrogen compounds that would reduce the amount of visible sunlight reaching the ground...
