September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... the possibility of life forming on celestial bodies: from moons like our own giving planets stability and shielding them from...within the ice or below the surface ice cover of the icy moons of Jupiter for example. I was again very surprised by...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
...,” says William. More will be learnt about the auroras and other aspects of Jupiter when ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) arrives at the gas giant by 2029. When settled in its orbit, JUICE will study the...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
..., extremely low or high temperatures as well as increased temperature ranges can occur. For example, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will perform detailed investigations of the Jupiter system at extremely low temperatures (even colder than...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... adventure tourism. Since all other possible extraterrestrial locations of human settlement - such as the asteroid belt or the icy moons of the outer solar system - are considerably more hostile than Mars, Cockell’s argument has the effect...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
..., and possibly so too are solar-system missions such as searching for signs of life in the oceans of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, if reports by Texas congressman Lamar Smith, chairman of the House committee on science, space, and technology and...
10 January 2021
Astrobiology. Current, Evolving and Emerging Perspectives
... tables and relative lack of illustrations, but given the current interest in space missions to Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system, it is timely. As with other such edited compilations of papers, it would be greatly improved by the...
