Aurora's origins   Exploring space     Two 'Moon workers' of the future LUNOX (Lunar Oxygen) company confer in one of the sites where besides oxygen the elements iron, aluminium, magnesium and titanium are mined. Courtesy of : Pat Rawlings/SAIC/NASA JSC -- Mark Dowman and Mike Stovall/Eagle Engineering, Inc./NASA JSC -- Clementine/BMDO/NSSDC -- LunaCorp/Robotics Institute Advanced technology     Instruments on the Mars Express orbiter: 1. MARSIS: ground penetrating radar to locate, for example, water and ice 2. HRSC: providing accurate and detailed images of the surface and atmosphere 3. OMEGA: mapping the surface composition of Mars 4. SPICAM: finding out why the Martian atmosphere is so oxidising 5. PFS: studying the composition of the atmosphere 6. ASPERA: looking at how the solar wind erodes the Martian atmosphere 7. MaRS (no corresponding hardware): using data transmission for science 8. Beagle 2: searching for evidence of past or present life. International cooperation     Frank De Winne on board the ISS doing acrobatics in space during the Odissea mission. Industry     Artist's drawing of the mobile pressurized laboratory including EVA airlock, galley, hygiene and waste management facilities, surface exit, robotic arm and external mounted science facility (glove box). Can be configured as a safe haven for six astronauts. Last update: 9 January 2006