To Saturn and Beyond
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on Project Saturn Wheel. Nothing lasts forever, least of all pHacktory projects that are meant to blow open big, audacious ideas and inspire the public. As Project Saturn Wheel has reached the end of the road, the …
An Earthling’s Guide to Road Tripping on Saturn
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on Project Saturn Wheel. In our last blog we spoke about the challenges and ideas that arose during the Saturn Wheel project. Inspired by Saturn’s signature rings, pHacktory scientists Peter and Ahmad theorized that an external “hoola …
The Journey’s End
This is Part 1 of a three-part series on Project Saturn Wheel. Project Saturn Wheel has reached the end of its journey and the team is excited to share its big audacious ideas with the world. It all started with a simple question: how can …
Eyes in the Sky: Navigating Saturn’s Landscape
Being a pioneer has always come with a big challenge: making your way safely through a place that you’ve never seen before, learning and mapping it as you go. Project Saturn Wheel’s hypothetical Saturnian pioneer is no exception. Moving through an alien landscape, this pioneer — whether human …
It Takes a Village to Reinvent a Wheel
When the Saturn Wheel project was born, the big audacious idea was to reinvent the wheel. That’s why we chose a giant gas planet with no solid surfaces on which to roll. What we didn’t think about was that the term “reinvent the wheel” often …