Martian soil appears to contain perchlorate salts, according to the latest twitterings from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. The presence of perchlorate generated rumours this week because of suggestions that it meant that the soil is less friendly to life than previously thought.
“The Illinois senator promised he would work to add one more space-shuttle flight beyond 2010, the shuttle program’s scheduled end. He said he wanted to ensure thousands of contract workers didn’t lose their jobs. ‘We cannot afford to lose their expertise,’ he said.”
Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious stuff lurking in the inner regions of the halo, in the same neighborhood as our solar system.
The life of the sun is under the teleskop.
A train trip on the Trans-Siberian railway to Novosibirsk resulted in this stunning view along the edge of the Sun recorded during the August 1st total solar eclipse.