The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
So it's been signed. The Liberals, NDP and Bloc parties are surely all celebrating their new found power tonight. If they haven't already, the political hacks behind the NDP and Liberals will probably soon realize some of the practical implications...
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Does this NASA photo from the rover Opportunity show a wooden log on Mars? Hard to tell? Then look at the zoomed-in image, and ask again: is this a log (petrified or otherwise) on the surface of the Red Planet? Duh. No. But if you read some websites, you might think it is. So what’s going on here? The [...]
Mars Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASA's In-Space Propulsion Technology (ISPT) project has been assigned the responsibility of developing propulsion technologies needed to enable future sample return missions.
My[confined]Space (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Good sci-fi B movie.
The World Almanac (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just returned from a relaxing holiday in Pittsburgh (actually, I spent more time around my tiny hometown of Mars, PA — Go, Planets!) and in a nice coincidence, today is the anniversary of the opening of the first drive-up...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers have found new evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is being stripped away by solar wind. It's not a gently continuous erosion, but rather a ripping process in which chunks of Martian air detach themselves from the planet and tumble into deep space. This surprising mechanism could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet. "It helps explain why Mars has so little air," says...
Dissensus (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forbidden Planet...Day The Earth Stood Still...Welcome To Mars...can you recommend some great space age sounds, please? Not 50s pop or Stereolab....soundtracks or modern artists dedicated to the future retro moog mission. Thanks
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
PolyU is working closely with the Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space Mission. Dr Alexander V. Zakharov, Project Scientist of the Phobos-Soil project, has made a special trip to the University and discussed stringent requirements for testing the qualifying model of this...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
PolyU is working closely with the Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space M...
Blue Sky (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Well, everything’s finally gone off to Red Planet. I didn’t tinker with the script. It’s already out doing the rounds so if I start looking for problems now I’ll only fret about the version everyone else has got. And then I’ll be forced to don a catsuit and start creeping around London offices in the dead of night, [...]
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Steven Johnson really likes a book called Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton; he calls it his favorite book (so far) of 2008. From a Publishers Weekly review: The cycle of photosynthesis is the cycle of life, says science journalist Morton (Mapping Mars). Green leaves trap sunlight and use it to absorb carbon dioxide from the air and emit life-giving oxygen in its place....
ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Remarkable new images taken by Nasa rover vehicles on the surface of the Red Planet show a rocky, barren desert that looks surprisingly like home...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Image Caption: The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Eumenides Dorsum mountains on the Red Planet. Eumenides Dorsum is located in to the west of the Tharsis Region, and forms part of the Medusae-Fossae Region, at approximately 2° south and 206° east. The images, taken on 26 December 2007, have a ground resolution of about 13 m/pixel and cover an area of about 12 000...
ESA (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Eumenides Dorsum mountains on the Red Planet.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Mars has inspired the human imagination for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans identified the Red Planet with the god of war, and the ancient Babylonians before them named it after Nergal, the fiery god of destruction and the underworld. They saw something sinister and malevolent in the erratically moving point of reddish light that refused to obey the astronomical rules of the night sky with...
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arijit57 | 10/06/2008
T he New NASA spacecraft MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemistry and Ranging)now reached Mars. It will now pass all the innermost planet at the length of 201 kilometres. And it is expected to take more than 1200 images of the cratered surface, with its Hi-Quality Designed Camera.
jkoulouris | 08/12/2008
Canada finds it's town names officially adopted for surface features on Mars
jkoulouris | 08/12/2008
Canadian place names officially adopted throughout the Solar System
