The lake-bed sediments of Gale Crater on Mars from NASA’s Curiosity rover (credit: NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology)
Where is Mars’s water?
Origin of life: some news
“Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues may have found the missing link between interstellar space, planet formation and the synthesis of life through the mechanisms that resolve the ‘water paradox’ outlined by Michael Marshall.”
Mapping Mars
Mars used to be a wet world, as evidenced by rock records of lakes, rivers, and glaciers.
Life on Mars Deep Underground
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.
Kicking-off planetary Snowball conditions
“Twice in the Cryogenian Period of the Neoproterozoic, glacial- and sea ice extended from both poles to the Equator, giving ‘Snowball Earth’ conditions. “
Seeking Life Below The Surface of Mars
The ExoMars mission (2022) by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos will be used to explore beneath the surface for evidence of life.
The Sky Above You – October 2019
The Moon will be Full on October 13th, New on October 28th.
Poetry Corner: Escape at Bedtime
On 2nd of June 2003 Europe launched its first voyage to another planet, Mars.
Poetry Corner: Space Oddity
On this day 15th of July 1965 “Mariner IV” sends back 1st pictures of Mars.
