6 space missions to look forward to in 2021
From new missions to Mars to the start of the Artemis program that will return humans to the Moon, here's 6 space missions to look out for in 2021.
I completed my PhD in 2010 looking at the interaction of the Sun with the upper atmosphere of Venus. Since then I have held six postdoctoral contracts, covering medical imaging, solar physics, the Earth's radiation belts, lightning in tropical cyclones, X-ray astronomy, and X-ray observations of the Earth's magnetopause.
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