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Mars water: What’s all the fuss?

Impact: Exogenous Life    February 24, 2011
Seventh in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell reprogramming, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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Update: More Moon water

News: Space Exploration    March 2, 2010
Last year, in a flurry of “NASA Bombs Moon!” stories, the NASA LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) project deliberately crashed into a deeply shadowed crater to kick up dust and test its contents – looking particularly for water. They found it. [SciTechStory: On the Moon or elsewhere follow the water] The quantities found [...]
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Another Earth? Will we even remember the planet GJ1214b?

News: Exogenous Life    December 17, 2009
We will (or should) remember the planet GJ1214b if it is, in fact, the first planet we have discovered outside of our solar system to definitely have water. Is it an ‘Earth-like’ planet? No, not really. It has been measured as 2.7 times the size of Earth and 6.5 times the mass. That makes it [...]
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New rocket fuel: aluminum ice

News: Delta-V    December 2, 2009
ALICE to the stars! Could be a catchy title. It’s an acronym: ALuminum ICE, a new kind of rocket fuel. There are lots of ways to drive a rocket. Few of them are ecologically friendly. This one may be. Better still, aluminum nanoparticles and water (hydrogen and oxygen) for rocket fuel are potentially available for [...]
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On the Moon or elsewhere: Follow the water

Impact: Space Exploration    November 14, 2009
In the detective business, the standard advice is: “Follow the money.” In human space exploration, perhaps somewhat similar advice applies: “Follow the water.” This needs debate, however there are some potent arguments in favor of the notion that human (as differentiated from robotic or probe) exploration of space should go where sources of water are [...]
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