Look out for the Mars science laboratory launch on November 26, 2011. Curiosity, which is a Rover , will search for elements that are needed to support life which are mainly water and any carbon-based materials. This will give us a good indication of whether Mars was habitable or will be habitable in the future. [...]
Titan’s Lakes and Rain Explained Better Buy a New Computer Simulation
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon is an alien world that is covered in a thick atmosphere of methane. Methane acts like rain on Titan creating clouds and fog as well as rainstorms and plentiful lakes. Where these features have come from is a mystery to scientists. Recently a computer model of Titan’s atmosphere and methane cycle [...]
Carnival of space 231
This weeks carnival of space ranges from commercial space exploration to the Milky Way. TheSpacewriter muses on the end of 2011 and the upcoming 2012. Nextbigfuture comments on Future History that is space related from now to 2050. Original article by Marc Millis at Centauri Dreams. Nextbigfuture suggests other technology that could impact Future Space [...]
Low Carbon Technologies Will Not Bring Bill Rises
Claims that the costs of wind farms, solar panels and other low carbon technology use will lead to sharp rises in bills are wrong, and they do absolutely nothing good for our society. Just recently, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) explained that, against the preposterous claims of some,the increase in bills over the past few [...]
Extraterrestrial Films
If you love learning about all things extraterrestrial, then you’re sure to love relaxing with great films which are set in outer space. Here are just a few classics, which you certainly won’t want to miss.. 2001: A Space Odyssey Noted for its scientific accuracy, as well as its impressive soundtrack, 2001: A Space Odyssey [...]
New Most Positive Sign of Water yet Found on Mars
I don’t know how it does it but the Mars rover opportunity continues to send back results from Mars. This one could be very significant as opportunity has found slivers of a bright material that could be gypsum (calcium sulphate). If this is confirmed it will be the most unambiguous sign of water yet found [...]
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Book Review- “Signals from the Void” A Collection of Short Storys to Support SETI
Buy Signals from the Void! and donate $1 to SETI all in one go. The official description of the e-book- “In the farthest reaches of the universe, in places our eyes have yet to behold, lurks the unknown. We search for life that we have dubbed ‘alien’ in hopes of making contact and bettering our [...]
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New Images of Enceladus from the Cassini
On October 19 there was a successful flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus by the Cassini spacecraft. This provided some new views of the moon and the icy jets that come from its southern polar region. This was a first because the images were of the plumes with two stars shining behind them which is called [...]
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Space Recycling Could Be Near.
Recycling in space is not that far away. United States Department of defence says it is trying to find ways to recycle the space junk that is at thousands of miles above the Earth. There is some valuable junk up there and it could produce lots of valuable new satellite parts. At this time, there [...]
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Carnival of Space 219
Hello and welcome to this weeks carnival of space. If you fancy contributing and have a blog or website to do with space then please follow this guide on how to participate in the carnival of space which as you can see is well worth it. Even if you have a small blog please contribute. Discovery [...]
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A New Telescope Called Alma Produces Its First Superior Images
A new telescope is starting to look at the universe. ALMA is the most powerful millimetre/submillimetre wavelength telescope in the world. These are longer wavelengths roughly about 1000 times longer than visible light wavelengths. Using these wavelengths ALMA allows astronomers to study really cold objects in the universe such as dense clouds of cosmic dust [...]
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Higgs Bosun or God Particle May Explain the Size of the Universe
This particle could explain a lot of things but could it explain the size of the universe? This particle mainly explains why most particles possess mass. This and the verification of the data by the Planck satellite would clear up a few questions about the universe’s past and future. The universe wasn’t born correctly. Because [...]
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Extreme Weather on an Alien World Found
The hurricanes that we experience on Earth are nothing compared to other alien worlds. Astronomers have observed extreme changes in brightness on a brown dwarf not that far away. These changes may indicate a storm that is bigger than seen on any planet so far. Brown dwarfs and giant planets have similar atmospheres and therefore [...]
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Carnival of Space 213
Vegaoo posts about the relation between the entropy from the Sun and the life on the Earth [In Spanish] This post by the Lounge of the Lab Lemming estimates the probability of finding a solar system like ours based on the Kepler planetary candidate database. Nuclear fission reactors in space? Think less “building sized” and more “suitcase [...]
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The Plan for the Search for Life on Mars
Scientists have been meeting to talk about the prospects of finding life on Mars. Questions still linger positively or negatively about whether life exists on Mars because the right instruments haven’t been available. The instruments needed are being developed now and are being refined for future missions. The main challenge is to get them on [...]
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A New Method to Predict Solar Flares and Sunspot Activity
Using acoustic waves to catch sunspots in the early stage of development can give as much as two days warning of disruptions to communication systems, air travel, power grids and satellites and prevent astronauts from getting fried in space. Sunspots develop in active solar regions of concentrated magnetic fields. The magnetic flux gives rise to [...]
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Chinese Experimental Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit
A Chinese experimental satellite failed to reach its orbit after it’s rocket malfunctioned. Orbiter SJ-11-04 was propelled by a long March II-C rocket on Thursday. It has been speculated thatChinawas about to use the satellite as part of an operational early warning defence system but this cannot be confirmed. This is believed to be the [...]
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A New NASA project started to See if microbial life Could Exist on Mars
A new large million-dollar NASA project started by theUniversityofMichiganaims to find out if microbial life could exist on Mars. Recently flowing water has been seen on Mars as reported in this weirdwarp post. Beads of water were first photographed on the Mars Phoenix lander’s legs about three years ago. Water could mean life, not little [...]
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Opportunity Rover Pictures From the Edge of the Endeavour Crater on Mars
The Opportunity rover has reached the crater Endeavour and is now sitting near its edge, looking across at the bowl and hills around its rim. Images from the Rover are shown below. (Don’t forget to click on them to make them bigger).
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Best Evidence yet for Flowing Water on Mars
Where there is water there should be life. NASA has been looking for water for a long time in its long quest searching for life in the solar system. It looks as though now the Mars reconnaissance orbiter has found flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. Dark, finger-like features appear and extend down [...]
