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Growing Future Meals in Space Will Require Human Waste

Future farmers on the Moon and Mars will have a big challenge: how to grow healthy food in two extremely unhealthy environments. That's because the soil on both worlds isn't at all hospitable to plants and animals. Neither are other conditions. Both are irradiated worlds, Mars has a thin atmosphere and the Moon has none at all. So, how will future colonists on either world grow their food? from Universe Today https://ift.tt/6ie3cLP via IFTTT
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Would Earth Still Be Habitable Without Us?

Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of our planet's evolution minus every bacterium, plant, and creature that ever existed, they've created a new tool for spotting genuinely habitable worlds among the thousands of rocky planets soon to be studied by the next generation of space telescopes. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/oHPp0Dy via IFTTT
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Jupiter Is Smaller and Flatter Than Previously Thought

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has proudly boasted about this since time immemorial, with its scientific confirmation occurring by Galileo Galilei in 1610. It was later found that Jupiter has a bulging equator caused by its rapid rotation, turbulent atmosphere, and complex interior mechanisms despite its massive size, and scientists have even measured its “waistline” down to a tenth of a kilometer. Now, imagine being the largest planet in the solar system and you’re told you’re not as big as you thought. Where probably most humans would be thrilled to find this out, how do you respond if you’re Jupiter? from Universe Today https://ift.tt/yvzxKie via IFTTT
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The LOFAR Telescope Produces the Most Detailed Radio Map of the Universe Ever

The radio telescope LOFAR, with a major contribution from Leiden Observatory, has produced the most detailed radio map of the Universe ever made. Never before have so many cosmic radio sources been captured in a single survey: 13.7 million. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/TEnpwG9 via IFTTT
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JWST Digs Into the Uranian Ionosphere

Uranus is a planet that seems to roll around on its side as it orbits the Sun. That's because it's tipped over, with an axial tilt of 97.8 degrees. That weird tilt gave the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) a chance to probe the ionosphere using the Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) instrument. An international team of astronomers used the data to map the vertical structure of that region and detect faint auroral displays. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/kY2UDzu via IFTTT
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A Method for Extracting Oxygen from Extraterrestrial Soils Just Passed a Major Test

NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the Moon. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/fNCTjoW via IFTTT
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Europa and Other Jovian Moons May Have Formed With Their Own Supply of Life's Building Blocks

Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) are important building blocks for life. They can form in space and be delivered to planets. But new research shows some of them can form in circumplanetary disks where moons form, boosting the prospects for life in Europa's ocean. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/BtgTEyl via IFTTT
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