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...multiple seismometers are deployed within a few kilometres of each other. A seismic array is better able to pick out the small vibrations from a particular source than a single seismometer, and can also be used to work out with greater accuracy where the waves originally come from. In 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was opened for signatures, aiming to ban...

...multiple instruments that each focus on a particular feature of the planet and each aspect of their missions call for different specialist knowledge. Likewise, AstrobiologyOU’s expertise spans planetary science, microbiology, geophysics, chemistry, governance, development and education. The points where these different disciplines meet is where the ‘light bulb’...

...multiples of each other) leading to a tidal pull that distorts their interiors and adds heat in addition to the heat generated internally by decay of radioactive elements contained within the rock. Seeds of life? With most or maybe even all of its seven known planets in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks zone” around the star, TRAPPIST-1 offers the intriguing...