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Microbe poop on lava tubes offer clues for life on Mars
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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The finds include �a lovely blue-green ooze dripping out of the (cave) ceiling in Hawaii; a vein of what looks like a gold, crunchy mineral in New Mexico; and, in the Azores, amazing pink hexagons,� said Diana Northup, a geomicrobiologist at the University...
Tags: lava tubes, Diana Northup, University of New Mexico, offer clues, Albuquerque, Cave, Coastal geography, Speleothem, Mars, Lava, Volcanology, Igneous rocks
'Geeks' take on red planet
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | about 22 hours ago
Credibility About 100 self-proclaimed geeks were at the Lawrence Hall of Science Wednesday night to learn how to survive life on Mars and then design and build a replica of a base station where they could live. California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, in...
Tags: base stations, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Museum, red planet, Berkeley, Berkeley California, University of California Berkeley, Space science, Colonization of Mars, Lawrence Hall of Science, SETI, Space exploration, Mars
The sands of Mars
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility As on Earth, a change of Martian seasons brings a change in the weather … a change in the wind. On Earth, as winter gives way to spring and then summer, a “green wave” rolls northward across North America, as vegetation reclaims bare ground. As the seasons...
Tags: rover, mars, mars rover, Earth, Martian, Grass Valley, Spirit rover, Mars Pathfinder, Opportunity rover, Mars Exploration Rover, Spacecraft, Hospitality Recreation
NASA hopes to free Mars rover from sand
Earth-bound controllers are ordering Spirit, the aging Mars rover stuck in a deadly Martian sand trap since April, to start spinning its wheels in a last-ditch effort to make the little vehicle dig itself out and continue its epochal voyage over the ......
Tags: allnews, Austria, Altmünster, Earth, Spirit rover, Mars, Rover, Mars exploration, Mars Pathfinder, Environment, Mars Exploration Rover, mars rover
Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books [Triviagasm]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Science-fiction books have given us some of the greatest swashbuckling heroes, cutting a swathe through space and countless alternate timelines...When we asked our friends to name their favorite swashbuckling heroes from SF books, first we had to figure...
Tags: swashbucklers hero, Ed Chianese, Mars, Pham Nuwen, San Francisco, A Million Open Doors, The Eyes of the Overworld, Larry Niven, Dying Earth, Thing, Stock characters, Military history of Europe, Swashbuckler
'Planet 51' plot, performances drag
Madrid :: Spain | 2 days ago
Credibility The film looks at what it would be like for a planet of Sea Monkey-looking inhabitants, who seem to be stuck in the '50s, to get a close encounter of the Earthly kind. Their isolated world of backyard barbecues, comic book reading and walking their mechanical...
Tags: fi movies, Earth Stood Still, Spain, Madrid, Gary Oldman, Planet 51, films, John Cleese, Entertainment Culture, Alien, Alien invasion, Biel, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott, The Universe, Joe Stillman, Chuck Versus the Intersect, Computer-animated films, Shrek, Science fiction film, Mars
Mars Attacks!
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Wednesday, November 18th 2009 at 3:41am Dir...This may not be the first Hollywood blockbuster based on a bunch of old bubblegum cards, but its the boldly hyperreal standard against which all subsequent endeavors will be judged.
Tags: Los Angeles, Bubblegum, Blockbuster Inc., Extraterrestrial life, Mars, Martian, Entertainment Culture
Water on the moon
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Shooting a rocket booster into the moon, followed four minutes later by an instrument-laden spacecraft, turned out to be a major letdown...But instead of the promised six-mile-high plume of dust and vapor, the debris rose only a mile and was invisible...
Tags: moon, Evansville, Mars, Rocket, Spacecraft, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, Exploration of the Moon, LCROSS, Lunar ice, Environment, Technology Internet
Little Progress in Freeing a Rover on Mars
New York :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Spirit, stuck in sand on Mars , tried to move Tuesday for the first time since May...Cautious mission managers had put tight constraints on the Spirit’s movement to ensure that it did not drive itself into a deeper predicament. Because the uncertainty...
Tags: New York, Rover Company, Mars, Rover, Mars rover, Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit rover, Opportunity rover
Web surfers can help NASA explore Mars
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Mars Exploration Program, said. "With so much data coming back from Mars missions that are accessible by all, exploring Mars has become a shared human endeavour. "People worldwide can expand the specialised efforts of a few hundred Mars mission team members...
Tags: nasa, space, NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Australia, Sydney, Mars, Mars exploration, Space exploration, Mars in fiction, Technology Internet, Environment
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