04 January 2016
Researchers find a new way to calculate the pull of gravity at the surface of a star
... Canada's MOST missions and will allow scientists to measure surface gravity of a star with an accuracy of about four per cent... based on its brightness variations, tells you its surface gravity and your weight on far-flung distant stars. Image credit...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...may also aggravate the effects of bone loss due to reduced gravity conditions. The concept of humans living on Mars is shifting ... those symptoms may be less severe in the partial gravity Mars environment, the confined nature of the colony’s habitat...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... with their experiments and collect data in conditions that would be impossible to simulate on Earth. Discovery flights Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G Corp) in the USA became the first to offer commercial weightless flights to the general public...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...Personal space will be very limited, radiation storm shelter provision relatively lightweight and there is no likelihood of artificial gravity being possible for these early flights. The physical challenges for the crews spending 12–18 months in zero...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... be built using materials extracted from the Moon, and later from asteroids, to provide Earth-like 1g artificial gravity. However, the size of the cylinder is limited by mechanical constraints, so sooner or later several of them will be needed. With...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... Moon would also have to contend with a very thin lunar atmosphere, radiation, bombardment and one-sixth gravity, all of which may not support germination, growth and development. It is impossible to mimic all of these conditions simultaneously...
