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Nasa Searches for Alien Life
A new bold initiavie has been started by NASA in hopes of finding signs of life on other planets. The new program is called NExSS and brings together a team of experts across numerous fields with hopes of analyzing over 1,000 planets outside our solar system.
“This interdisciplinary endeavor connects top research teams and provides a synthesized approach in the search for planets with the greatest potential for signs of life,” Jim Green, NASA’s Director of Planetary Science, said in a news release. “The hunt for exoplanets is not only a priority for astronomers, it’s of keen interest to planetary and climate scientists as well.”
Read the full article at Huffington Post
Liquid Water on Mars found right below the rover?
Now this is interesting! We know about some frozen water on the red giant, but turns out there there might be water in liquid form as well! NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered new evidence:
At long last, researchers on the Curiosity Mars rover’s science team believe they have evidence that there is liquid water on the Red Planet, lurking just beneath the surface of our neighbor’s rouge surface. The water in the Martian soil seems to gather intermittently and is a very salty brine, making it perhaps suitable for everyone’s favorite retro pet — sea monkeys! Very, very hearty sea monkeys that could withstand the superharsh environment on the fourth planet, that is.
Read the full story at CNet
Venus photos in HD
Astronomy Now has just posted a nice article with some high-resolution images of Venus from Earth. The photos penetrated the clouds showcasing the surface with its numerous ridges and mountains!
Photo courtesy of B. Campbell, Smithsonian, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, Arecibo. Read the full article right here!
Mars with Water?
Mysterious cloudlike plumes bursting from Mars
USA Today reports an interesting phenomenon spotted by some astronomers:
Amateur astronomers have spotted huge cloudlike plumes erupting from Mars – a phenomenon that scientists are at a loss to explain. The bright flares, which have now died away, towered higher than anything else observed in the Martian atmosphere. Their tops reached some 150 miles in altitude, more than twice as high as the highest Martian clouds, and they sprawled across 300 to 600 miles, researchers report in this week’s Nature, a science journal.
Read the full article Here!
Photo by NOAA
Curiosity trek through ‘Pahrump Hills’ spotted by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
An interesting article with some great pictures from Psych.org:
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the “Pahrump Hills” area of Gale Crater in this view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Pahrump Hills is an outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp. The region contains sedimentary rocks that scientists believe formed in the presence of water.
Read the full story at: Psych.org
Mars Panorama From the Highest Point Reached by a Rover Yet
Missing NASA Spacecraft found on Mars after 10 years!
We mentioned a few days ago about the prospect of finding a long-lost Beagel-2 on the surface of Mars and the news is now confirmed!
LONDON — The European Space Agency’s Beagle-2 lander, which had been lost on Mars since 2003, has been found, the agency said Friday.
New photos taken by the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the lander partially deployed on the surface of the Red Planet, it said.
Rudolf Schmidt, ESA’s Mars Express project manager at the time, called the finding “excellent news.” He said that not knowing what happened to Beagle-2 had “remained a nagging worry.”
Read the full article at National Post
Spaceship Lost on Mars May Be Found
CNet reports that a long-lost Mars explorer craft, Beagel 2, may have been finally found after 10 years. NASA is yet to release the full statement but the news is definitely exciting.
On December 19, 2003, a tiny spaceship called the Beagle 2 was released from Mars Express, a craft orbiting Mars. On Christmas day, the lander plunged through the Martian atmosphere traveling more than 20,000 kph, and then it was never heard from again. Now there’s reason to believe that NASA has spotted the diminutive craft that was part of a British-led effort under the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission.
Read the full article Here!