February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...’s surface, is 10,000 times the total amount that all of humanity actually ‘consumes’. The 180 km diameter Meteor Crater on the Yucat In 1859 a gigantic coronal mass ejection involving billions of tons of ions travelling at millions of kilometres...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...in the constant blaze of a huge Sun. Now it is cratered and remarkably Moon-like (Bonestell got this right), with a ... Utah, the Crimea, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater, Arizona, and so on; nearly all ‘planetary analogues’. In a ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... environment through which space resources can be developed and Earth freed from its resource constraints. Shackleton crater near the south pole of the moon. True illumination on the right. Color elevation contours on the left...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... characteristics and varying involvement of liquid water - from re-activated crater wall gully systems and dark streaks on dunes, to the ... liquid water but with salty liquid brine. Impact craters and an intricate channel network photographed by ESA’s ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...deposits. Extensive water ice is expected to be present in craters at the lunar poles. In March 2010, the lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 ...tonnes of water-ice. Locating the Moon Village near these craters and using locally sourced solar PV panels as planned by...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
..., so that in the polar regions sunlight strikes the surface at a constant grazing angle. As a consequence, the interiors of large craters at the poles are permanently shadowed and remain perpetually cold; below -200C. Enhanced colour image of Mercury...
