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About perchlorate on Mars
A teleconference was held today at JPL to discuss the recent intermediate findings by the Phoenix Mars Lander’s science team of perchlorate on Mars. JPL has posted the MP3 audio of the telecon, and you can find the referenced images here. You can also subscribe to JPL’s podcast feed to keep up-to-date on the science [...]
An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part II)
This is the second half of Neural Gourmet’s exclusive interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander. In the first part of our interview we learned a little bit about Phoenix herself; what it’s like to be on Mars, her team, and the very real prospect that Phoenix will not survive the Martian winter. In this segment, [...]
An interview with the Phoenix Mars Lander (Part I)
It’s really amazing who, and what, you’ll run across on the social networking site Facebook these days. For instance, a couple of months ago I became friends with the Phoenix Mars Lander. Phoenix, as you might know, is a robotic spacecraft that has been sent to Mars to study the geologic history of water on [...]
Send your name to the moon
While it’s highly unlikely any of us will actually travel to the moon, you can send your name there aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The LRO is being sent to orbit the moon to scout for landing sites, potential resources, measure radiation levels and demonstrate new technology. NASA is collecting names which will be placed [...]
Moondust Memories
If you don’t read NASA Science News regularly, then you’re missing out. Sure, they routinely post the same old recycled astronomy content about eclipses, equinoxes and such but it is a daily thing and that’s got to be hard to find new stuff all the time. Goodness knows I’m sure not able to do that. [...]
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