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Mars water: What’s all the fuss?
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 [...]
Posted in Impact: Exogenous Life Also tagged astrobiology, exogenous life, life, Mars, origin of life, planet, rovers, solar system, water-ice Leave a comment
Mars rover Spirit: Trapped but contributing to water story
Disturbed soil surrounding the Mars rover Spirit…….Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell A heading for this story could be: Dead Spirit reports from a moist grave. Almost technically correct but too much wordplay. The reality is more prosaic and potentially more important. The issue is water on Mars. Evidence is overwhelming that Mars had, as in two billion years [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged exogenous life, geology, Mars, MER, rover, space exploration, Spirit, subsurface Leave a comment
Published results: LCROSS lunar impact reveals scientific treasure
The hypothesis: In the shadows of deep craters that pock the south pole of the Moon there might be ever-frozen water. The experiment: Guide the final stages of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) rocket into one of the craters and crash it into the surface, hopefully sending a plume of dust into [...]
Posted in Impact: Space Exploration Also tagged Cabeus, crater, gasses, hydrogen, LCROSS, LRO, Moon, NASA, solar system, south pole Leave a comment
Update 2: More Moon water
Following headlines such as “Moon Has More Water than the Great Lakes” (astrobio.net) you’d think a new study by the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory (Washington D.C., USA) has the Moon – once considered one of the driest places in the solar system – to be a veritable swimming pool. Granted, more water in various forms [...]
Clean water: A self-cleaning filter
Anybody who’s ever filtered water knows that the filters get dirty. Supposedly clean water comes out one side, but the other side gets coated by whatever was in the water – dirt, bacteria, algae. Sooner rather than later the filter needs to be cleaned or changed. Commercial or public filtering of water isn’t much different, [...]
Posted in News: Water Shortage Also tagged desalination, filter, membrane, reverse osmosis, RO, UCLA 1 Comment
Update: More Moon water
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 [...]
Posted in News: Space Exploration Also tagged Chandrayaan, craters, exploration, LCROSS, Moon, Moon base, NASA, north pole, satellite, water-ice Leave a comment
On the Moon or elsewhere: Follow the water
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 [...]
Posted in Impact: Solar System Also tagged Enceladus, Europa, hydrogen, Mars, Moon, moon water, NEOs, oxygen, rocket fuel, space travel, water-ice Leave a comment
New water for life: Lakes on Jupiter’s moon Europa