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Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 43 days ago
by Mark Silva ST. PAUL, Minn. - As Democrat Barack Obama plans to sit down tomorrow with FOX News' Bill O'Reilly for an interview, the foxes certainly are in the henhouse. Bias, we're told, is part of the political mainstream, and perhaps part of the media mainstream. Rudy Giuliani says that "anyone who says there isn't media bias is living on Mars.'' The former mayor appeared on FOX & Friends this morning, where he also said this about Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's running mate:... ... Source: www.abc.net.au --- 20 days ago
When humans set foot on the planet Mars, the world will be treated to a live telecast of stunning clarity and colour - a far cry from the blurry, grainy images of the first lunar Landing four decades ago. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 43 days ago
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Source: www.flickfilosopher.com --- 8 days ago
The American Life on Mars debuts tomorrow night at 10pm Eastern on ABC. I’m all stocked up on the liquor I’ll need to get through it. This “sneak preview” makes me cringe:... ... Source: www.newslookup.com --- 16 days ago
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian Landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time, scientists reported Monday. more ... Source: planetary.org --- 31 days ago
This week I am attending a large meeting of the Mars community, which is trying to reach consensus on the best Landing site to send Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled for launch next October. So for this week's Ustream broadcast I'll tell you about what I've learned from the meeting. Come join me! I have heard from several of you that the recording of last week's broadcast isn't working. This is an occasional problem that Ustream has, and .... ... Source: phoenixonmars.wordpress.com --- 15 days ago
... Source: planetary.org --- 30 days ago
I'm attending the third Landing site selection meeting for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover today and tomorrow. The talk I most enjoyed today was the first one I saw, by Roger Buick, who presented on the challenges of locating the most ancient life in early Earth rocks, as analogues for the challenges of searching for past habitable environments and even life on early Mars. To begin with, he did address the "street light syndrome" .... ... Source: news.u-trade.org --- 16 days ago
Last week we announced you that the small spacecraft called the Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to land on Mars this month, 25 May. More news about the mission is being revealed just as we spoke and one of the new things we found is that there are a [...] ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
The Phoenix spacecraft on Mars has detected snow above its Landing site. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Humans have been dreaming about going to Mars since the first telescopes were invented four centuries ago, and now that we have spaceships Landing on the planet regularly and rovers motoring around, taking photos and digging in the soil, the dream of ...
Source: spaceoddityblog.planets.gamespy.com --- 11 days ago
There is more news of Mars to come in the next few weeks. For the first time a microphone will try to catch Martian sounds. The microphone is part of the system MARDI, short for Mars Descent Imager, that is on board of Phoenix. It was there to record Phoenix’ Landing, but was powered off, [...] ...
Source: www.blog.gamesville.com --- 4 days ago
Houston, we have a problem... Think our first trip to Mars was exciting? Check out our first astronaut Landing in the middle of a golf course... ... Source: www.tfot.info --- 15 days ago
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth. A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) above the spacecraft's Landing site. Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground. ... Find more results for Mars Landing on RSSMicro.com |
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credit: ESA In the video in the extended section of this blog post the European Space Agency's Bernard Foing describes the ongoing work to analyse the agency's Mars Express spacecraft's Martian surface data in relation to Landing site selection for future missions ...
It was 1973 on Friday in Greenpoint. A filming for ABC’s “Life on Mars” has taken over a large chunk of the Brooklyn neighborhood. Particularly cool is the string of 1970s-era cars stretching down Calyer Street. It’s not clearly exactly how many locations the show was filming at in Greenpoint, but crews were set up inside and outside the Capri Social Club, a bar on the corner of Calyer and Lorimer Street). For some reason, this hole in the wall is popular with TV producers. Over the past couple of years, it has been the home to scenes for J.J. Abrams’ doomed “Six Degrees” and the short-lived “The Black Donnellys.” If “Life of Mars” flops, too, it might be time to start talking about the Capri curse. More cars after the jump. ...
09.09.08 - Phoenix Monitors Frosty Clumps on its Struts The Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this image on Sept. 1, 2008, at about 4 a.m. local solar time during the 97th Martian day, or sol, since Landing. ...
Imagine we’ve time-traveled a few decades into the future and you are walking across a desolate, rock-strewn wasteland on Mars with a survey team. Suddenly an oversized dragonfly-looking creature swoops up from a crater rim. It flits overhead furiously flapping its wings against the cream-colored sky. It makes a broad loop around your group then quickly flutters toward the horizon. This seeming apparition would be a heart-stopper. That is, until you learned that oversized insect was actually a machine made and dispatched to Mars by another space faring nation engaged in a remote geologic survey of the red planet. The dragonfly-on-steroids is called ExoFly , a nimble flapping aerobot being prototyped at the Technical University Delft, Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Lightweight autonomous machines like ExoFly may be among the next generation of planetary explorers. Biological evolution’s got a 500 million year jump us in terms of trial-and-error experiments with ingenious ways to travel across our planet. It’s OK to copy from Mother Nature. In the past few years engineers have gotten a better understanding of the complexities of insect flight and have been able to mechanically duplicate them. Having a small flexible machine capable of flying, hovering, Landing and taking off like an insect would open up a new exploration niches that it not easily reachable by rovers or airborne vehicles on far flung worlds. These small flyin ...
A new robot called ExoFly could be exploring the surface of Mars, guiding rovers through the surface of the Red Planet. Developed by scientists at the Technical University Delft, Wageningen University, and TNO in Netherlands, the ExoFly is designed to imitate the flight patterns of dragonflies. Dragonflies from 300 million years ago, because these things are huge. Wingspan: 350mm Length: 400mm Mass: 17g Flying speed: 1.8 ms-1 Flapping frequency: 6 Hz Flying Time: 12 min Wing Material: Mylar foil Structure: balsawood Motor: 2g pager motor Camera: 1.2g pinhole camera Energy storage: 3g Li Polymer cell Actuators: shape memory alloy wires Base station: 3GHz PC Sensors: pinhole camera Based on the DelFly, an Earth-based robot capable of autonomous flight, with hovering, take-off and Landing capabilities. Scientists say the ExoFly can be adapted to fly in the more dense atmosphere of Titan too, so expect a black monolith to appear on the Moon anytime now. [ New Scientist ] ...
clipped by: amgumen clipper's remarks: Unfortunately the heat of reentry was so high, even with a protective two centimetre-thick rock coating, that the organisms were carbonised. They died but their cells still remain as "pompeified" forms. if martian sedimentary meteorites carry traces of past life, these traces could be safely transported to Earth. However, the results are more problematic when applied to Panspermia, a theory that proposes living cells could be transported between planets. STONE-6 showed at least two centimetres of rock is not sufficient to protect the organisms during entry." Clip Source: www.spacedaily.com The STONE-6 experiment tested whether sedimentary rock samples could withstand the extreme conditions during a descent though the Earth's atmosphere where temperatures reached at least 1700 degrees Celsius. After Landing, the samples were transported in protective holders to a laboratory clean-room at ESTEC and examined to see if any traces of life remained. although about 39 known meteorites from Mars have been identified, all are basaltic rock-types and no sedimentary meteorites have been found to date. Two samples of terrestrial sedimentary rock and a control sample of basalt were fixed to the heat-shield of the return capsule, which re-entered the atmosphere on 26th September after 12 days in orbit. The basalt was lost during re-entry. However, a sample of 3. 5 billion year old volcanic sand containing ...