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Precious Gems Discovered on Mars

The discovery of a water-based mineral on Mars by the spectrometer on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than was previously thought, and it likely played an important role in shaping the planet's surface and possibly hosting life. Hydrated silica, commonly known as opal, has been found across large region of Mars. "This is an exciting discovery because it extends the time range for liquid water on Mars, and the places where it might have supported life," said Scott Murchie, the principal investigator for the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "The identification of opaline silica tells us that water may have existed as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Microwaves Could Extract Water From Moon And Mars

When astronauts land on the Moon in the not too distant future, it's possible they will be visiting an outpost where they can pick up some fuel and a refreshing container of liquid.

Life Will be Hard for Colonists - Kaguya Can't Find Water on the Moon

It's been a long-held belief that the Moon is hiding significant quantities of water ice, safe from the Sun's ablative effects inside shady craters. One such crater is called Shackleton at the lunar South Pole and previous Moon missions have indicated it might hold a large reservoir of ice for all the water needs of future Moon colonists. Alas, the Japanese lunar mission Kaguya (or the Selenological and Engineering Explorer - "SELENE") has taken a peek into the crater to find… nothing. At least, it hasn't spotted any significant quantities of surface ice. So where does this leave future lunar colonies?

Rover Sand Traps Provide Clues on Mars Climate

If you watched the "Five Years on Mars" documentary on the National Geographic channel about the Mars Exploration Rovers, you probably saw how both rovers have gotten stuck in some of the small sand dunes on Mars surface. These dune fields on Mars are a bit of a mystery to planetary geologists, and in fact, there is nothing like them on Earth. The fields of rippled sand on Mars, called Transverse Aeolian Ridges (TARs), are found over large areas across Mars. The dunes themselves are smaller than the gigantic dunes also found on Mars, but the fields are bigger than any sand ripple fields found on Earth. TARs hold clues to past and present climate processes, and since they can be death traps for rovers, scientists want to know more about these unusual features.

5 Years At Mars: The Best of Mars Express

In December, the Mars Express spacecraft will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its arrival at Mars. In observation of this milestone the German Aerospace Center DLR has put together a collection of some of the best images from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), the main camera on board the spacecraft. The stunning, high resolution images this instrument has produced of Mars' surface are nothing short of jaw dropping, and they have provided new perspectives and new discoveries about our neighboring planet. One of the iconic images from Mars Express is the image above of water ice inside a crater near Mars North Pole.

Phoenix Finds Signs of Once-Liquid Water On Mars

Scientists announced today the first evidence yet for liquid water in geologically recent times on Mars. The discovery, made by the Phoenix lander, comes in the form of two long-sought soil minerals, which researchers say could have formed only in the presence of liquid water. But team members can't say for certain where the water came from--and time is running out to solve the mystery.

Mars Satellite's First Weather Report

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling Mars for over two years now, and has provided unprecedented views of the Red Planet with its HiRISE Camera. But did you also know that MRO is a weather-monitoring satellite, too? The Mars Climate Sounder instrument is examining the Martian atmosphere and has issued its first Mars weather report. "It has taken 20 years and three missions but we finally have an instrument in orbit that gives us a detailed view of the entire atmosphere of Mars and it is already giving us fresh insights into the Martian climate," said Professor Fred Taylor of Oxford University. Within a paper issued by the Mars 'weather team' comes surprising news: during the freezing Martian winter the atmosphere above the planet’s South Pole is considerably warmer than predicted.

Chandrayaan to look for water on the moon (To go with Indian spacecraft will try to unravel moon's origins)

Is there water on the moon? India's lunar explorer, Chandrayaan-1, will try to find out by peeking into the moon's dark corners and sending an American probe to dig there.

Chandrayaan to look for water on the moon (To go with Indian spacecraft will try to unravel moon's origins)

Chandrayaan to look for water on the moon (To go with Indian spacecraft will try to unravel moon's origins)

Mining the moon: the Scarab lunar prospecting robot

October 16, 2008 Plans are afoot to have humans back on the moon by 2020, but if we want to make it more than just a brief visit and truly begin to colonize the solar system, the challenge will be to find ways to extract and exploit local resources that can help sustain a lunar outpost. That's where the Scarab comes in. The four-wheel, 880-pound lunar prospecting robot designed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute - and soon to be field tested by NASA on the slopes of a dormant volcano in Hawaii - is equipped to drill and collect three-foot samples of soil and rock while operating in one of the harshest environments imaginable - the moon's southern pole. The rover will act as a terrestrial testbed for the development of technologies that it's hoped can be used to find hydrogen, oxygen and possible even water that could be mi

Powered by Lithium-Ion Batteries, NASA Spacecraft Explore Mars and the Moon

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander landed safely near the planet’s north polar icecap in May. Phoenix relies on advanced lithiumion batteries from Yardney Technical Products to dig and look for water, seeking a habitable environment. The Phoenix batteries provide power at night when there is no sunlight for the solar panels to convert to electricity. They can also be used any time when a task requires more power than the primary power source can deliver.

ESA closes in on the origin of Mars' larger moon

European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars' larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a 'rubble pile', rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from.

EDI now with filtration

The Septron Bio-Safe from Christ Water Technology Group is said to be the world¡¯s first electro-deionisation (EDI) module with an integrated membrane filtration stage. It is based on the company¡¯s proven and patented spiral-wound EDI technology, with an additional membrane stage to remove particles and bacteria. Combined with an upstream reverse osmosis (RO) stage, Septron Bio-Safe can produce Highly Purified Water (HPW) with bacterial counts of ¡Ü10 CFU/100 ml, with no additional ultrafiltration required. Septron Bio-Safe can easily be retrofitted to existing Osmotron systems, considerably improving the microbiological safety of existing pure water systems. Septron Bio-Safe is available in cold-water and hot-water versions, and in various sizes covering the throughput range 500¨C3,000 l/h.

DVD Audio Ripper 5.0.45.1107

DVD Audio Ripper is a professional software DVD movie soundtrack ripper that can extract movie soundtracks from DVDs and rip DVD audio to MP3 or WAV with complete sound effects. * Features: 1. It supports AC3 and LPCM audio track and supports sample rate 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 48 kHz to 44.1 kHz down sampling. 2. It supports ID3 tag and permits you to edit music info for each file before rip them. 3. Besides DVDs it also supports IFO files. 4. It can rip DVD movies by chapters - DVD Audio Ripper will auto list all chapters in a DVD, then you can extract sound tracks by chapter easily. 5. It can rip DVD movies by certain time or file size - If your DVD doesn't separate music through chapters, you also can rip it by certain time or file size, for example rip DVD to MP3 every 5 minutes or every 5 MB.

Mars Science Laboratory: Still Alive, For Now

The Mars Science Laboratory, the next generation of Mars rovers slated to head to Mars in 2009, is still alive, for the time being. The car-sized rover designed to look for life on Mars is over budget and behind schedule due to technical problems, and NASA officials met today to discuss their options. Potentially, Congress could pull the plug on the mission if cost overruns go too high. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and Science Associate Administrator Ed Weiler were briefed, and met with mission managers in attempt to work out a potential solution. In a press briefing today, Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA headquarters said the rover's progress will be assessed again in January, but the mission will need more money.

Reveal the Mars Phoenix's Classified Discoveries With Photoshop

The Mars Phoenix said goodbye last week. It's very sad, like the end of Wall-E. Publicly, the Mars Phoenix was sent to study the planet's water history and whether it could have ever supported life. But we've all seen enough sci-fi movies involving the government to know that there's probably more to it than that, especially if Tommy Lee Jones is involved. So, use Photoshop to show us what the Mars Phoenix really discovered that the government doesn't want us to know about. Here's some Mars Phoenix images to get started.

Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars

Riding with Robots writes "Mars researchers report that a robotic spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that once directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. 'This study provides a picture of not just surface water erosion, but true groundwater effects widely distributed over the planet,' said one of the mission scientists for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been regularly returning terabytes of high-resolution images and other kinds of data from Mars."

Evidence of Rain on Mars

Images of layered sedimentary deposits and deltas on Mars have provided evidence for lakes and flowing rivers that carried eroded material downstream. A team of researchers also believes there is evidence for precipitation in the Red Planet's past. "For years scientists have been suspecting that the current appearance of the landscape has, in part, been shaped by rivers that cut into the surface," said Ernst Hauber of the German Aerospace Center. “We can see layered sediments where these valleys open into impact craters. The shape of certain sediments is typical for deltas formed in standing water." Hauber and his team also believe that surface runoff from rain or snowmelt completes the picture of past water on Mars.

TV Alert: Five Years on Mars

On Sunday evening Nov. 2, at 7 pm CST,(in the US; check your local listings) the National Geographic channel will be showing a special documentary on the Mars Exploration Rovers. It's called "Five Years on Mars," and dramatizes the trials and tribulations of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity and highlights new scientific information on the planet’s geology and water history. If you saw the "Mars: Dead or Alive" and "Welcome to Mars" shows, this one should be even better. The show will feature photo-realistic animation based on the actual landscape as captured by the rovers’ cameras, and interviews with MER PI Steve Squyres and others on the rover team.

Mars' Scars Are Remnants from Impact with Third Moon

About a billion years ago, there was a pair of small moons revolving each other in close orbit with Mars. One of them, Phobos, is still performing its regular cyclic patrols around the red planet, but the other, as experts believe, has broken into pieces, entered the atmosphere, and eventually smashed on Mars' surface, leaving behind a couple of large craters. Predictions have it that, millions of years into the future, the surviving moon will follow the example.

Could Strange Mars Craters be from a Fallen Third Moon?

Oval impact craters north of Olympus Mons (NASA)Was there a third Martian moon orbiting the planet? Did Phobos and Deimos have a triplet sibling? According to the discovery of two elliptical impact craters, there might just have been another moon, but it ploughed into the Red Planet's surface a long time ago. The moonlet would have been approximately 1.5 km wide (0.9 miles), and it will have succumbed to the Mars gravity, entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle. As it tumbled through the atmosphere it broke in two, hitting the surface and creating two elongated impact craters, near-perfectly aligned.

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