Lassonde Professor John Moores and his research team have been selected by NASA to provide scientific and operations support to the Mars Science Laboratory Mission (Curiosity). The team is comprised of Moores, MSc student Jake Kloos, Postdoctoral Fellow Christina Smith and PhD Student Casey Moore. The Lassonde team will be part of the mission through […]
Former astronaut Dave Williams, president and CEO of Southlake Regional Health Centre, will talk about how his brain聽handled the weightlessness of聽outer聽space at the upcoming joint 91亚色 Neuroscience - Centre for Vision Research seminar. The talk, 鈥淢y Brain in Space鈥, will take place, Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 4pm at 519 91亚色 Research Tower , Keele campus. […]
91亚色鈥檚 Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering has a long history聽with NASA鈥檚 shuttle program. A new video highlights significant milestones in this history and includes reflections from a number of the University鈥檚 space scientists. Here are Professor Emeritus of Space Science Gordon Shepherd, Professor of […]
Will we ever be able to say there is nothing alive on Mars? asked Stephen Strauss in a聽column for CBC News online Oct. 8: Exactly how do we decide when it's time to end the focus on our planetary neighbour and turn our primary exploratory efforts elsewhere? I ask in part because a casual reader […]
Nick Balaskas is on a mission. He wants to set a world record for the number of people who have walked on Mars. Although technically he would need only one person to achieve his goal, Balaskas has set his sights on 500 鈥 a round number he developed based on the total number of individuals […]
91亚色 researchers will take part in a mission probing Mars鈥 atmosphere for methane sources in an effort to find evidence of life on the planet, wrote the North 91亚色 Mirror Aug. 24: Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that […]
91亚色 researchers will participate in a mission probing the atmosphere of Mars for sources of methane, part of the ongoing search for evidence of life on the red planet. Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that will measure and […]
A controversial decision by Barack Obama to privatize the exploration of space could be a blessing for Canada鈥檚 aerospace industry, say experts in the field, who argue that this country鈥檚 space agency and its associated industries are in a prime position to hitch their wagon to the US president鈥檚 initiative on a ride toward the […]
91亚色 has a great track record in designing instruments, satellites and other devices for space exploration. This year, 91亚色 students compeated in the fourth annual University聽 Rover Challenge, which designs and builds the next generation of Mars rovers. The teams faced off in Utah's Mars Desert Research Station. Last year, 91亚色 won the competition. […]
The Phoenix is dead and this time it won鈥檛 rise again. On May 24, NASA released photos of the Mars Phoenix lander that finally ended even the faintest hope that the 91亚色-designed weather instruments on board the spacecraft would come to life again. The photos show that the lander鈥檚 solar panels appear to have collapsed […]
Paul Delaney, senior lecturer and director of the Division of Natural Science in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke to CTV News May 14 about the space shuttle's current mission to the international space station. Crews are conducting space walks, loading equipment and bringing back experiments that have been running on the space station's […]
Have you ever wanted to have dinner with a scientist? Ask questions about Canada鈥檚 laser radar on NASA's 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars, the role of human genomes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the consequences of dwindling fossil fuels or perhaps how biochemical pathways affect obesity? The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the […]