March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as ...at Europa’s South Pole” 2014. In Science Vol. 343, Issue 6167, pp. 171-174. doi:10.1126/science.124705 W. B. Sparks, B. E. Schmidt,...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... on the surface of Mars. “The deep-space capabilities MarCO is demonstrating will help enable Cubesats to make use of excess launch vehicle capacity and allow NASA and JPL to efficiently add science, data-gathering and technology testbed...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
.... Mandel is currently a writer at the American Institute of Physics and is pursuing a PhD in the anthropology of robotics, sexuality and space science.
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... it is the closest example of this celestial type, it is ripe for exploratory science investigations. Observations of Messier 82, using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, reveal hydrogen gas and infrared dust hitching a ride...
