How, where, and when did life on Earth first emerge? These are three major questions to which many small, but no major, answers exist — questions that no single field of study can answer. That is why the national research consortium PRELIFE was established, a collaboration between universities and research institutes working together to find …
A 10,000-kilogram boulder moving around and gullies that look suspiciously like rivers, not on Earth, but on Mars. Expertise Network postdoc Lonneke Roelofs explains it in a new video from the ‘Universiteit van Nederland’. For years, scientists have puzzled over this: is this evidence of water on Mars and does it mean that alien life …
In the February issue of Zenit, the national magazine for astronomy, meteorology and space research in The Netherlands, you can read all about planetary habitability, the exciting science taking place within the expertise network and the NPP. The postdocs of the Expertise Network and their colleagues have jointly written various popular science articles in this …
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The NPP joined the ESTEC Open Day on 12 October and what a success it was! This year, ESTEC celebrated its 50 year existence, drawing close to 10,000 people to the technical heart of the European Space Agency to Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The annual open day also marked the ending of the NL Space Week. …
They’re older than our Earth, as small as a grain of sand, and might just be lying in your gutter: micrometeorites. Every year, tons of space dust enter our atmosphere, and a small portion of it lands on Earth—as tiny pebbles that can tell us something about the formation of the solar system, and perhaps …
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