Though NASA has been reporting for years that there is water ice on Mars, today the US space agency held a press conference to announce definitively that the Phoenix Lander has found traces of water ice on the red planet.Every single news source reporting the Martian water story has neglected to tell you about this “water ice.” It’s not drinkable..
This fall, the world’s largest telescope will begin its scientific mission. Made up of radio telescopes in Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Sweden, the e-VLBI - for electronic very long baseline interferometer - creates in effect a telescope with a diameter of 11,000 kilometers.
Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration marks its first half-century of exploration and discovery. But missions to the Moon and beyond are only part of the story. Without Nasa’s scientists, life on Earth would be very different indeed.
The U.S. space agency said it has selected 11 companies and one university to develop concepts as to how astronauts will live and work on the moon. The concepts “will be used when outposts are established on the moon,” said NASA’s Jeff Hanley.
The first stars in the universe were short-lived brutish monsters that changed the nature of the cosmos forever, new computer simulations suggest.