space

There Is Enough Ice on Mars to Cover the Entire Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 24, 2016
If it were laid out uniformly, the Red Planet’s ice would create a layer one meter deep

By David Aragorn
NASA just released 1,035 new images of Mars — here are some of the best 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 24, 2016
Mars, despite being nicknamed the red planet, has a large verity of different colors on its surface.

By David Aragorn
Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2016
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin has determined using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

By David Aragorn
UK ‘space junk’ project highlights threat to missions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2016
The mass of “space junk” orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise awareness of the issue.

By David Aragorn
Bright radio bursts probe universe’s hidden matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

By David Aragorn
NASA Hints About Asteroid It Plans To Pluck And Place In Moon’s Orbit? ‘2008 EV5’ Could Be Part Of Asteroid Redirect Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
NASA appears to be serious about its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that was being discussed last year.

By David Aragorn
How scientists will use artificial intelligence to find aliens 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 22, 2016
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast

By David Aragorn
Cosmic ‘barcode’ from distant galaxy confirms Nature’s constancy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2016
Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past.

By David Aragorn
Icy surprises at Rosetta’s comet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 19, 2016
As Rosetta’s comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches of water ice.

By David Aragorn
Trump Space Reform May Force NASA To Ditch SLS Rocket And Orion Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 19, 2016
Donald Trump wants to take a giant leap forward in the public-private partnership in outer space and may tell NASA to ditch their own launch vehicles in favor of using commercial spacecraft on a contract basis.

By David Aragorn