Five years roaming and still going strong
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Astronomy | No Comments »It's been over five years now since the rover Spirit landed on Mars, on January 3rd 2004. Its twin, Opportunity, landed a few weeks later on Jan 24th. The rovers were only designed to last 90 days, but they are ...
Asteroid mission
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Astronomy | No Comments »This could prove interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7623411.stm European scientists are planning to send a probe to a near-Earth asteroid sometime in the next decade, and to return a sample to Earth. This is particularly promising as it is believed that many asteroids may store ...
Water on early Mars
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Astronomy, Biology | No Comments »A recent report says that water was widespread on Mars, early in its life. Here's the BBC article and the Nature abstract (not for the faint hearted). This will, of course, raise the possibility that primitive microbial life might have ...
