Space

NASA Says Mars Mystery Solved- What Is It?- Three Mysteries About Recursive Slope Lineae

The internet is buzzing with the announcement from NASA that they are going to announce the solution of a longstanding Mars mystery on Monday. at 11.30 am EST. That's 4.30 pm BST. Then, as many of the news stories have pointed out, the list of speake ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 28 2015 - 6:45pm

India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft- Results Of First Year Of Methane Search- Not Yet Announced

T he Indian ISRO space agency was going to announce the result of their first year of observations in Mars orbit- the Indian Times said- on Thursday.  But it didn't happen- seems it has been delayed! I look forward to hearing what they found- but see ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 27 2015 - 5:19pm

And The NASA Mars Mystery Is...

Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters,  Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA’s Ames Research ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2015 - 10:15am

Mars: and the Adage Where There is Water There Is Life.

NASA has announced that there is flowing liquid water on Mars.  Where there is water there is life.  That is an old adage among astrobiologist.  We “follow the water”.  Water had lead us to be hopeful that on icy bodies such as the icy moons of Jupiter, S ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 28 2015 - 1:23pm

Why Are Hydrated Salts A Slam Dunk Case For Flowing Water On Mars? And What Next?

Now we know, it's the second of those  "Three mysteries " which they solved- by detection of water in the RSLs.  However, they didn't directly detect flowing water. Instead, they found hydrated salts. So let's look at this a bit m ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 4 2017 - 9:46am

2015 — a Space Oddment

During the morning of last Monday (28th September) in Europe and Africa, or the evening of the 27th in the Americas, we were treated to the spectacle of a total eclipse of the Moon, a so-called ‘supermoon’ because the Moon appeared a little larger than usu ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 30 2015 - 3:02am

Peeking Into Our Galaxy's Stellar Nursery

Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look at the formation and birth of stars. However, the images produced over the last 50 years look ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 7:00am

Wet Paleoclimate Of Mars Revealed By Ancient Lakes At Gale Crater

We have heard the Mars exploration mantra for more than a decade: follow the water. In a new paper published October 9, 2015, in the journal Science, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team presents recent results of its quest to not just follow the water ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 12:57am

Could You See Moon City Lights Or A Greenhouse From Earth? Just For Fun

If there were humans on the Moon- would we see the settlement lights from the Earth? For instance during a thin crescent Moon- could we see the lights of civilization in the parts of the Moon in darkness?  It's a fun question to answer I think, so le ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 2 2015 - 11:30am

New Changes In Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter-- the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system's outer planets. Collecting these yearly images-- essentially the planetary version of annual school ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2015 - 7:50am