Sep 3, 2008

Image Credit: Apogee.net Regardless whether one intends to dwell upon a dusty world, or an icy one, living on another planet, moon, or dwarf planet is going to require energy. Without a dependable power source, off world settlements will become nothing but fantasy, regulated to the imaginations of Star Wars, Star Trek and...

Jul 20, 2008

(Image: Saturn’s radiation belts, Credit: NASA / JPL / APL) Despite the fact that planetary magnetic fields provide shelter against deadly solar radiation, they are also accompanied with radiation belts, an item some would consider a mixed blessing. While Earth, Callisto and Titan comprise the three major radiation safe worlds (at...