IAC 2016, Part 2: Moonshots and deep oceans
The International Astronautical Congress had been full of interesting talks, people and events. We’ve already discussed the budding race to Mars, but there was ...
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The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability, Day 1
The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability conference has started this afternoon with two invited lectures: one by Victoria Meadows from the University of Washi...
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 1
As some of you already know, I and my colleague Tomas Petrasek are currently at the European Planetary Science Congress in Nantes, thanks to the Department of G...
Pluto: a world more fascinating than we’d hoped for
Pluto and its largest moon Charon proved to be extremely interesting objects during the recent New Horizons flyby. While the spacecraft is on its way further in...
JUICE is going to be fruitful
If you’ve read something about subsurface oceans in our solar system, the chances are you’ve already heard about the upcoming JUICE mission by ESA, ...
A new article: Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold
These places never see sunlight, are buried deep under thick ice crusts and warmed mostly by radioactive decay and tidal forces: subsurface oceans of celestial ...
