Ray Villard, at Discover Channel blogs, about NASA's WISE mission (Wide Infrared Survey Explorer). Ray predicts two potentially news breaking headlines from WISE (and no doubt there will be other stories too). The first would be the discovery of an entirely new class of dark astronomical object that has previously escaped detection. Since I can’t imagine what that could be, there isn't much...
Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
According to the latest National Geographic, the Jovian moon Europa -hundreds of millions of miles from the sun- may host something fishy. Something alive—right now. Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a hundred miles (160 kilometers) deep...an ocean currently being fed more than a hundred times more oxygen than previous models had suggested,
Back when I taught labs at KU, one of the labs I taught was one in which students would use a computer program to determine the mass of Jupiter by observing the orbital period of the four biggest moons (known together as the Galilean moons). It's not terribly hard to do. Just find the orbital period, apply Newton's revision to Kepler's 3rd Law and do some conversion factors and the answer's right there....
One person that must have been particularly pleased by the announcement of water all over the surface of the Moon and the LCROSS impact showing water in particularly heavy concentrations is Bill Stone. These recent announcements have given a video of his given in 2007 at TED extra importance, as though he spoke in 2007 as if the presence of water on the Moon in the south pole was a certainty (it
Image credit, Chris Wyatt (click on images to embiggen, it's worth it). Correspondent Chris Wyatt of Bendigo has sent in these terrific pictures of Jupiter and its Moons. Chris writes: "From mid August to early October I have made a number of efforts to photograph Jupiter, especially with the Great Red Spot (GRS) visible. I used my 10 inch dobsonian with my Canon S2IS camera with the magnification...
Astrobiology is a fascinating and complex field of science. It is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and is a relatively new field of science incorporating astronomy, biology, geology, palaeontology, physics, mathematics and other disciplines. It is even more fascinating given that we have never actually discovered life anywhere else in the universe!...
According to i09, citing National Geographic, there is oxygen-rich water on Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa:That amount of oxygen would be enough to support more than just microscopic life-forms: At least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and...
The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"There's nothing saying there is life there now. But we do know there are the physical conditions to support it." Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona. world's leading expert on Europa. Based on what we know about the Jovian moon, parts...
New evidence has come to light that the vast, ice-encrusted oceans of Europa may be harboring Earth-like life that lives on the oxygen-rich waters. Time to plan your extraterrestrial fishing trip?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Washington, November 18 - ANI: In a new research, a scientist has suggested that at least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and breathe under Jupiters moon Europas global ocean.
Nasa's LCROSS mission proves once and for all there is water on the Moon Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning First thermal pictures of dark side of the moon Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life 5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories Martian landscapes Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life Mysterious supernova in a class of its own Mercury...
The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The ancient isolated lakes of Antarctica are living biology labs that may yield clues to microbial life existing on Mars and future exploration of Jupiter's Europa and more distant exo-planets beyond of Solar System. Dr. Michael C. Storrie-Lombardi of Kinohi...
Water is all the rage. It gets mentioned in every single high profile space mission of late. Searching for water on Mars, water inside Europa, water in the atmospheres of exoplanets. Going to the Moon? Don't forget to check for water! All with good reason, of course. Being made of 72.8% water, it's rather important that wherever we might go in the Universe, we have a ready supply of it. But water's...
Sniffing out life on Titan (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/SPL) From New Scientist: IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system. As many as five moons of Jupiter and Saturn are now thought to hide seas beneath their icy crusts....
Measuring 1,300 meters on Mühlen street, between the Oberbaum bridge and the Ostbanhof station you'll find the longest section still standing of the Berlin Wall, also known as East Side Gallery in the Friedrichshain district. The Wall was erected in 1961 because more than 2.6 million Ost Deutschers escaped to West Berlin or West Germany from 1949 to 1961 (total population of East Germany was about...
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