Ice analogs mimicking interstellar ice behave like liquids at temperatures between -210°C and -120°C according to Hokkaido University researchers. This liquid-like ice may enhance the formation of organic compounds including prebiotic molecules and the accretion of dust to form planets.
This research results appear in Science Advances in its September 29, 2017 issue (Tachibana S., et al., Science Advances, September 29, 2017)
See the website of Hokkaido University for more details.
Professor Tachibana came to a new post in UTOPS.
NASA Associate Administrator, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and JPL deputy director, Dr. Lamy James, visited UTOPS at the Graduate School of Science.
They gave a lectures to students at the university of Tokyo with a title “Making Big Ideas Reality: Lessons about Innovation from NASA.”
More than 150 students attended the special lecture.
They also had discussion with faculty members studying space science/engineering at the university of Tokyo.
EQUULEUS engineering model is under ground tests.
The photo is taken for EQUULEUS in a large vacuum chamber.
The UTOPS website is now open!
