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...mention cooling to the researchers behind the Phoenix Mars Lander. Their ship will have just six months to sample and study the water ice at the Martian north pole before -200F (-130C) winter temperatures hit the region. "We last until the sun goes down. Then we freeze to death," says principal investigator Peter Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before it does, Phoenix Lander will probably offer a first look at actual Martian water ice rather than the dry water scars of millenniums past. To do that, the lander will...
More missions to Mars are anticipated, including one that would return soil samples, possibly shedding fresh light on Martian life and allowing NASA to rehearse the round-trip skills that would be necessary for a manned mission. And even as the new ships are readied, some of the great historic ones are still in flight. Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, are now on their way out of the solar system, with the last breaths of solar wind at their backs. Remarkably, NASA may be able to stay in touch with...
...particular iron sulfate mineral called jarosite forms only under strongly acidic conditions,” Knoll said. “Its identification in the Martian rocks provides a smoking gun for strongly acidic conditions...
...wire was a wiretap, which a team of Baltimore cops used in a season-long probe of a drug gang. At first blush, it sounded too conventional for the home of The Sopranos. A police drama on HBO? What's next? A sitcom about a friendly Martian? "We were the 'gritty cop show,'" David Simon, the former police reporter who created the series, recalls of some dismissive early reviews...
...other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward understanding the origins of life back on earth. But in 2003, the Beagle 2 probe - worth tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted, if a bit bewildered, to find that technology developed for Beagle 2 offers hope for a significant medical breakthrough, despite the spacecraft's untimely demise...