Posts Tagged ‘Mars’
Icy microbes make case for life on Mars
PENN STATE (US) — The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. Continue…
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:44 - 0 Comments
Science & Technology - Dec 14, 2011 20:21 - 1 Comment
‘Slam-dunk’ proof of water on Mars
CORNELL (US) — The discovery of a bright vein of gypsum in ancient rock proves that water once flowed underground on Mars, researchers say. (more…)
Top Stories - Dec 2, 2011 11:12 - 1 Comment
Will worms in space lead to life on Mars?
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — A microscopic worm may offer clues to how humans will cope with long-term space exploration. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 26, 2011 11:18 - 1 Comment
Mineral on Mars needs water to form
SYRACUSE U. (US) — A mineral common to both Mars and Earth may be an effective tool in determining when and under what conditions water was present on the red planet. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 12, 2011 15:30 - 0 Comments
Early Mars likely warm and wet
CALTECH (US) — Researchers have directly determined the surface temperature of early Mars for the first time, providing evidence that’s consistent with a warmer and wetter Martian past. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 16, 2011 12:04 - 2 Comments
Mars rover finds early rock at crater’s rim
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — The Mars rover Opportunity is poised on the edge of the vast Endeavour Crater, sampling a rock unlike any other examined during its mission. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 18, 2011 16:00 - 0 Comments
Could briny drops harbor life on Mars?
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Beads of liquid brine may open the door to the possibility of microbial life on Mars, according to an international study. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 12, 2011 12:27 - 4 Comments
‘Worms from hell’ 2 miles underground
PRINCETON (US) — On what he likes to call “underground safaris,” a geoscientist made a startling discovery: tiny worms living nearly two-and-a-half miles beneath the Earth’s surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 25, 2011 16:35 - 3 Comments
Mars grew fast but stayed small
U. CHICAGO (US) — Mars formed quickly—in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system—which helps explain why it is so small, say researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 6, 2010 13:58 - 1 Comment
2013 mission will probe Mars mystery
U. COLORADO (US) — Mars, once warm enough for liquid water to flow, has lost much of its atmosphere. The main culprit is our sun and its solar winds. But there are other suspects. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jun 21, 2010 23:23 - 0 Comments
Flood forms canyon in 3 days
CALTECH (US)—In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley. The waters excavated a 2.2-kilometer-long, 7-meter-deep canyon in the bedrock in just three days, new analysis shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 14, 2010 14:46 - 2 Comments
Ocean may have covered one-third of Mars
U. COLORADO (US)—A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago. The volume of the ancient Mars ocean would have been about 10 times less than current volume of Earth’s oceans, researchers say. Mars is slightly more than half the size of Earth. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jun 7, 2010 14:56 - 0 Comments
Extreme spring points to life on Mars
McGILL (CAN)—Methane-eating bacteria are able to survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in the Nunavut Territory in Canada’s extreme North. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 27, 2010 14:09 - 0 Comments
Mysteries of Martian ice cap solved
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series of spiral troughs—solving a pair of mysteries dating back four decades—while also finding new evidence of climate change on Mars. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 3, 2009 13:51 - 0 Comments
Don’t believe what you hear about Mars
This photo of Mars was taken by astronomer Horace Dale in August 2003.
Science & Technology - Jun 19, 2009 15:41 - 2 Comments
What a view! Shorefront property found on Mars
Reconstructed landscape showing the Shalbatana Lake on Mars as it may have looked roughly 3.4 billion years ago. Data used in reconstruction are from NASA and the European Space Agency. (Credit: G. Di Achille/ University of Colorado)
