Today, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission is attempting one of the most ambitious maneuvers in space exploration: to soft-land a robotic probe on a comet for the first […]
University of Leeds
Posted inArctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Habitable Zones, Plant Biology
Taking the Shine Off Glaciers
The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and have a non-negligible impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into […]