Welcome to my end of month round-up of science items that have piqued my interest as they’ve flowed across my social media stream. As a science fiction writer (and scientist) I keep track of these for both a personal fascination and writing inspiration. I never cease to be amazed at the advances and discoveries that are happening around the world and I know I’m only aware of a small minority. Anyway, here’s this month’s selection:
Mars
Every month there are new plans/ideas as to how we will reach and colonise the red planet. Although it seems the most notable event this month was the failure of the European Space Agency ExoMars lander. It appears that it’s parachutes did not open early enough and it crash landed into the surface. Helpfully NASA has released images of the disaster (follow this link – it’s the fourth item down). This is on the Popular Science site – well worth a look if you don’t know it.
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