The vast waters of Mars
Mars, it seems, for all its dust, airlessness and radiation, could be a livable place, after all. Via the Seablogger.
View ArticleThat Martian methane
Big Media, as usual, is twisting the discovery of the methane to mean that there probably are microbes beneath the windblown soil of the Red Planet. But the researchers say it could as easily be the...
View ArticleThat Martian methane
Big Media, as usual, is twisting the discovery of the methane to mean that there probably are microbes beneath the windblown soil of the Red Planet. But the researchers say it could as easily be the...
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Mars as you’ve never seen it
Amazing what a high-resolution satellite camera can do. These are some details of the Abalos Undae sand dunes. Meanwhile, a permanent moon base gets another boost. Via Simply Jews.
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Mars as you’ve never seen it
Amazing what a high-resolution satellite camera can do. These are some details of the Abalos Undae sand dunes. Meanwhile, a permanent moon base gets another boost. Via Simply Jews.
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Cold As Ice
I enjoyed this 1992 scifi novel of physicist Charles Sheffield’s, though it seemed unnecessarily complicated in the beginning. A little more action before establishing the seven main characters...
View ArticlePoor Spirit
It’s been an amazing six years for the Martian rover Spirit. But the little robot may finally be dying in winter temps of almost seventy degrees below zero F. It hasn’t been heard from since March 22:...
View ArticleBlaenau-Ffycin-Ffestiniog
“…observed features of the [Martian] Melas Chasma look remarkably like Blaenau-Ffycin-Ffestiniog when viewed from the heavens.” But it’s too late, Mrs. Charm’s beloved Wales and its ridiculous spelling...
View ArticleTo boldly wish
I think it was science fiction writer Charlie Stross who said that anyone wishing to settle Mars should first try settling the Gobi Desert in the winter while wearing a fireman’s respirator. Somehow I...
View ArticleMars we’re onto you, again!
And how. Lots of fun watching NASA-TV on the Web via C/Net as the new robot Curiosity—about the size of an Austin Mini Cooper automobile—touched down on the Red Planet thirty-nine minutes after...
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