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Slava G. Turyshev

2 articles · 0 co-authors · latest: 2026-05-04

Why a Tent on Mars Beats a Full-Blown Planetary Makeover

Making Mars warm and with breathable air would require energy comparable to all of Earth's factories working for hundreds of years. The mirrors needed for heating would cover an area the size of Africa. Instead of a global overhaul, scientists propose building massive dome-tents over cozy valleys —
arXiv:2603.00402 · 2026-02-28

Cosmic Tuning Fork: Earth and Moon Resonate with Gravitational Waves

A novel laser ranging technique aims to fill the microhertz gap in gravitational-wave astronomy. By exploiting resonant enhancement at the second harmonic of the Moon’s orbit and phase measurements precise to 80 micrometers, a five-year campaign could reach a sensitivity of Ω_gw ≈ 5×10⁻⁹ — enough to
arXiv:2605.04110v1 · 2026-05-04