14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
... billion (£1.4 billion) mission, is not seeking to detect actual life but it could help determine whether conditions on hidden oceans on each of the moons have at least a chance of supporting simple microbial organisms. The Ariane 5 launcher did not...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... of State John Hay once famously said: “The Mediterranean is the ocean of the past, the Atlantic is the ocean of the present, and the Pacific is the ocean of the future.” And over time the global economy has expanded...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...a crew of astronauts and scientists discover incredible extremophiles - which looked like aliens - whilst studying the depths of oceans in submersibles. It was then that I realised we still have much to learn about the limits of life in general - and...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...lunar scientists would say you’re wrong Exploring ocean worlds Europa is one of the ‘ocean worlds’ in our solar system that ...sounding from a compact magnetometer to characterise the subsurface ocean of Europa. Another proposed by Robert Ebert of ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...question is where did all the water from the Earth’s oceans come from? Because of the large amounts of water ... comets, early theories stated that as much as 80 percent of our ocean came from cometary impacts, but today it is believed that 20 percent ...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...as optimising flight routes, identifying right whales, predicting ocean health and diabetic detection. Thus, data scientists with... series prediction and electromagnetic induction in the Earth and oceans. Dr Nair has been involved with the productions ...
