#Japan's Military Will Patrol Earth's Orbitals Japan's military plans to take defense to the heavens in 2019.
Japan's proposed space force would monitor Earth's orbitals with radar and telescopes, looking for harmful debris that threatens satellites.
For example Planet labs an earth imaging startup lost 26 small satellites that were on board. Orbital stated that the payload is insured
For more complicated procedures an earth-based physician could control the robot via telepresence. After its training is complete the $2. 5 million Robonaut 2 designed to assist astronauts with their duties both inside
by the time humans are ready to colonize Mars Robonaut doctors will be there to lend a healing hand d
Their mission was part of Beijing quest to open a permanent space station in Earth orbit within the next decade.#
Good for business, good for the environment What if your business practices and operation can help save our planet?
#Water flows on Mars Potentially life-giving water still flows across the ancient surface of Mars from time to time,
NASA scientists said Monday in revealing a potential breakthrough in both the search for life beyond Earth
NASA researchers using an imager aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed the watery flows by looking at light waves returned from seasonal dark streaks on the surface,
but also help keep it from boiling off in the thin atmosphere of Mars, the researchers said.
lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The researchers'findings are in a new paper being presented this week at the European Planetary science Congress in France.
This is not the first discovery of water on Mars. Researchers have known for many years that Mars has frozen water at its poles, in its thin atmosphere,
Nor is it the first potential clue that Mars could have once --or may still--host life.
The Mars Curiosity rover, for instance, has detected methane on the surface of Mars, as well as other chemical signatures suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
but researcher Mary Beth Wilhelm said the results suggest"more habitable conditions on the near surface of Mars than previously thought."
But Alfred Mcewen, who heads up NASA's Hirise high-resolution camera aboard the Mars orbiter,
said he's fairly confident life will one day be found on Mars."It's very likely,
that there's life somewhere in the crust of Mars, microbes, "he said. Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, said the discovery announced Monday puts NASA in a perfect position to look for that life."
'Does life exist beyond Earth?'"'"Green said.""But following the water is a critical element of that.
a great opportunity to be in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that
and crevasses on the moon or Mars. He says the next generation of devices will have specific applications,
Theye one of the weirdest organisms on the planet, and we keep coming up with unexpected uses for them.
Actually, some people think mushrooms aren from this planet at all. Really. Now comes word that researchers at Researchers at the University of California,
who is the Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
The Synthetic Muscle could be used in robotics in deep space travel such as travel to Mars because of its radiation resistance."
"Based on the good results we had on planet Earth, the next step is to see how it behaves in a space environment,
"From there the next step might be to use it on a mission to Mars."Early Connection with PPPLRASMUSSEN began working with PPPL in 2007 just four years after she started Ras Labs. She received her first patent for a synthetic muscle in 1998.
and was equivalent to a trip from earth to Mars and back. A second test of 45 hours was enough to be equivalent to a trip to Jupiter
and beyondrasmussen and Gentile found that there was no change in the strength, electroacivity, or durability of the material due to the radiation although there was a slight change in color.
When the material returns to Earth in July, it will be tested and compared with identical materials that remained On earth.
The International space station is an international science laboratory in low Earth orbit where astronauts conduct scientific research in biology, human biology, astronomy, meteorology and other fields in a gravity-free environment.
The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.
there's only one of them on the planet and when you upgrade it it's a new piece of equipment with new idiosyncrasies,
in microgravity or through diseases such as osteoporosis, will use the Alvetex Scaffold in experiments 150 miles above the surface of the Earth after the equipment is delivered by the Spacex Dragon capsule.
Khazendar said. lthough it fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it bad news for our planet.
has been published online in the journal Earth and Planetary science Letters. Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future.
and study Earth interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge
and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.
he evolving instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice shelf and its tributary glaciers, Earth and Planetary science Letters, Volume 419,1 June 2015, Pages 19910;
Markarian 231 is the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, located 581 million light-years away.
Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
In Planet Four, players are assigned the task of identifying and measuring features on the surface of the southern polar region of Mars
. If space exploration isn your thing, Tomnod brings it closer to home. Instead of scouring the surface of Mars, Tomnod users crowdsource observations about the Earth surface.
When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing, Tomnod directed its users to help search for the missing aircraft.
#Nasa Finds Liquid Water On Mars In a Mars-related press conference this morning NASA has announced that nder certain circumstancesliquid water has been found on Mars. ars is not the dry arid planet that we thought of in the past,
Previously it was known that H20 existed on Mars in the form of ice but scientists had thought the atmosphere of Mars was too thin for liquid water to be possible.
The scientists used a spectroscopy technique to analyze the chemical composition of dark streaks (which NASA refers to as Recurring Slope Lineae
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
NASA landed its Curiosity rover on Mars back in August 2012 and the bot has been exploring the surface
and unearthed clay minerals after drilling Martian rock again suggesting an aquatic environment in the planet past.
The rover has measured also radiation levels with a view to assessing the feasibility of humans spending time on the planet.
The presence of perchlorate in the Martian soil improves the stability of liquid water on the surface of Mars,
NASA scientists said today enabling the liquid water to exist for longer before either freezing as the temperature on the planet drops,
when you look at Earth, water is an essential ingredient for life This is tremendously exciting. We haven been able to answer the question oes life exist beyond Earth,
but finding water is critical to that. We now have, I think, great opportunities to be in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that,
said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA. Investigating the RSL sites themselves to probe for life is challenging, according to NASA,
which are sterilized also rigorously to avoid contamination by Earth-based microbes. Exactly where the liquid that appears in the RSL comes from is unclear at this stage.
The presence of liquid water on Mars could also help any future human mission to the planet
and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet,
added Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
says he could have spent tens of thousands more on a comparably sized diamond mined out of the earth,
#Signs of liquid water found on surface of Mars, scientists say Despite its reputation as a forebodingly dusty, desolate and lifeless place,
Mars seems to be a little bit wet even today. Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars,
a finding that will fuel speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist to now."
"said Alfred S Mcewen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
"Although young Mars was inundated by rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean a few billion years ago,
In 2011, Mcewen and colleagues discovered in photographs from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter dark streaks descending along slopes of craters, canyons and mountains.
The average temperature of Mars is about minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, but summer days near the Equator can reach an almost balmy 70.
but measurements indicate very low humidity on Mars only enough for 10 microns or about 1/2, 500th of an inch,
of rain across the planet if all of the wetness were wrung out of the air. That idea cannot be ruled entirely out
and its presence raises the question of whether Mars, which appears so dry and barren, could possess niches of habitability for microbial Martians.
"Even though RSLS appear to be some of the most intriguing features on Mars, no one is likely to get a close up look any time soon.
and Nasa worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. Of the spacecraft Nasa has sent to Mars,
only the two Viking landers in 1976 were baked to temperatures hot enough to kill Earth microbes.
#Ancient Mars had long-lasting lakes, rivers: Nasa Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3. 8 to 3. 3 billion years ago,
boosting the odds that life may have existed once on the Red planet, scientists, including one of Indian-origin,
have found. Using data from the Curiosity rover, Nasa's Mars science laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago,
The findings build upon previous work that suggested there were ancient lakes on Mars, and add to the unfolding story of a wet Mars, both past and present.
Last month, Nasa scientists confirmed current water flows on Mars."It's clear that the Mars of billions of years ago more closely resembled Earth than it does today.
Our challenge is to figure out how this more clement Mars was even possible, and what happened to that wetter Mars,
"said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars Exploration Program at Nasa Headquarters in Washington.
Before Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists proposed that Gale crater had filled with layers of sediments.
Some hypotheses were"dry, "suggesting that sediment accumulated from windblown dust and sand. Others focused on the possibility that sediment layers were deposited in ancient lakes.
The latest results indicate that these wetter scenarios were correct for the lower portions of Mount Sharp.
including planetary space exploration, Earth observations, fundamental Earth and space science.""Technology demonstration missions like OCSD are said driving exploration
With this information the telescope is able to direct itself towards various objects in space including planets, galaxies, asteroids and stars automatically.
since been returned to earth), the team since moved on to 3d printing in the vacuum of space outside the ISS. ast month Made In Space successfully completed a round of tests,
when compared to parts produced in Earth atmosphere. Preliminary results suggest that the vacuum-based 3d printing process works as expected, without any show stoppers,
and on Mars As regular readers will have noticed doubtlessly, 3d printing technology is already steadily making a name for itself as a genuine and very useful medical technology.
which she took it to the Mars Desert Research Station which is used to prep the forthcoming mission to Mars. ince the International space station is powered by solar panels,
I decided to use solar energy to power my 3d printer to make medical supplies during my simulated Mars mission.
he will have created a cost-effective and Earth-friendly power alternative, and accomplished what other said could never be done.
which has led to the depletion of Earth resources and has increased dramatically global warming. 3d printing technology has made already huge contributions to address both of these concerns individually,
and Christopher Bader & Dominik Kolb from Deskriptiv) develop concepts of wearables capable of augmenting human capabilities and making life possible on inhospitable planets.
since to Earth for lab analysis. The ability to 3d print without gravity restraints will allow those aboard the ISS to 3d print tools
preventing the need for direct shipments of such objects from Earth. This ability is an exciting one,
which will be compared to the same parts made in the Earth atmosphere. Mike Snyder, Chief Engineer at Made In Space,
However, long before extra-planetary manufacturing, on-site manufacturing will prove useful to produce useful tools in remote areas of our own planet.
and customized medical resources at a Mars analogue research station. This study describes a 3d printer with a PV system improvised on-site by providing a detailed components summary.
while a specific inverter is included in the kit in case the standard Mars analogue mission battery pack cannot be transported on the plane due to varying airline regulations
And Dr Wong probably has quite a bit more time to optimise the technology before sending it with humans to Mars t
#Save the Planet While You Swim in the 3d printed Spongesuit Bikini As our oceans become more and more polluted by our habits of wasting
#Progress cargo spacecraft failure delays ISS crew's return to Earth An unmanned cargo spaceship that failed to complete its ISS resupply mission
and burnt up as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere last week, forcing the Russian space agency to postpone the return of three cosmonauts onboard the station.
has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare-earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.
and demand of rare-earth metals. he research group focused on three or four different catalytic reactions used in high production volume chemicals,
While other scientists are trying to find ways to use less of the least abundant rare-earths,
which includes reducing reliance on rare-earth materials. But rare-earth metals like cerium, which is as abundant as copper,
are primary products of mining for other, more valuable rare-earth elements. With minimal demand for these abundant rare earths, they are stockpiled.
and reduce reliance on rare-earth metals and other materials critical to the success of clean energy technologies.
since to Earth for lab analysis. The ability to 3d print without gravity restraints will allow those aboard the ISS to 3d print tools
preventing the need for direct shipments of such objects from Earth. This ability is an exciting one,
which will be compared to the same parts made in the Earth atmosphere. Mike Snyder, Chief Engineer at Made In Space,
They used a robotic system developed at SSRL to study the crystals at SLAC's LCLS, an X-ray laser that is one of the brightest sources of X-rays on the planet.
Did feel the earth shake for quite a long time. Saw dust and stones flying off mountain near by
using probably the simplest nervous system on the planet"."He told the BBC:""I would urge extreme caution about extrapolating this work to other species-especially mice or humans."
estimated Reuters. U k. Health Secretary Jeremy hunt said Sunday he was pleased xceptionally that we will be the first country on the planet to have a nationwide Men B vaccination program. e had a stand-off really for the best part of
or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.
#Mars simulation project: 6 people start 1 year of isolation in Hawaii dome Six people will spend the next year living in a dome in Hawaii in the name of science.
They will spend the next 365 days pretending to be on Mars. They'll be living in a two-storey dome where cameras,
and support a good team for a round-trip to Mars. The journey is estimated to last three years.
Gifford tweeted"a last view of Earth"before she and the rest of the crew entered the dome.
#Giant sea scorpion may have been Earth's 1st big predator Earth's first big predatory monster was a weird water bug as big as Tom cruise, newly found fossils show.
Earth's dominant large predator was a sea scorpion that grew to 170 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches), with a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head and a spike tail, according to a new study.
Mogensen and Aimbetov are set to return to Earth on Sept. 12, together with veteran Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, 57,
Volkov will return to Earth in March together with NASA ASTRONAUT Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
The apparatus was isolated from Earth natural magnetic field so there was no interference. One tube contained a fragment of DNA (approximately 100 bases long)
U s. space agency Nasa is thought to have tested successfully a revolutionary new power source that could enable spacecraft to travel to the Moon in just four hours instead of more than three days and to Mars in two or three weeks instead of seven months.
when the news comes from Nasa an organisation that put men on the Moon and sent rockets to Mars. According to Nasa engineer Paul March,
Mr Shawyer is excited more about Emdrive potential to save this planet rather than reach new ones.
or escapes into intergalactic space and travels until it hits something such as another star, planet, or very occasionally a telescope mirror.'
which orbits earth every 90 minutes and will be visible for four minutes from 10. 28pm.
and then move towards the south, fading out as it passes into the Earth's shadow at 10. 32pm,
'Meteors are the result of particles as small as a grain of sand entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed
The Perseids make an August appearance each year as the Earth passes through debris shed by the comet Swift-Tuttle.
While Nasa is busy testing its biggest ever rocket in the hope it will propel mankind to Mars,
reaching 12 miles (20 km) above the planet's surface. The space tower would be more than 20 times the height of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
By creating strong, far-reaching foundations deep into the Earth, the centre of gravity is shifted from above the ground, to below it.
because the moon's atmosphere is about 100 trillion times less dense that the Earth at sea level.
including communications between Earth and spacecraft. Quantum teleportation depends on a phenomenon called quantum entanglement. This allows connections to be made between atoms,
and safeguard entire species. Researchers claim to have worked out how to accurately predict the eruption of'supervolcanoes'that blanket the earth in giant ash clouds triggering a'nuclear winter'.
Repeatedly throughout Earth's history, when they become a super-eruption, the resulting gigantic volcanic outbursts that throw 100 times more superheated gas,
'said Guilherme Gualda, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, who directed the project.'
The movement and structure of these waves could then be used to map the earth beneath.
#MIT refreshes fusion reactor with modern superconductors Rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes could mean earlier practical fusion reactors, according to MIT.
The technology, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows for natural clays found readily all over the planet to be turned into reliable masonry products and offers a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete masonry,
Tao likens the process to techniques used to discover exoplanets--new planets beyond our solar system.
evidence of their presence can be inferred from fluctuations in starlight due to gravitational effects caused by the unseen exoplanets.
"Xylochemistry could represent an important alternative to the climate-damaging use of the earth's finite resources of natural oil and gas in the production of chemicals."
"explains Sara Munk Jensen, Ph d. student at both the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (Nordcee), Department of biology and the Department of physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
which involved an astronaut stranded on Mars growing potatoes while living in an artificial habitat, had a bit more science fact than fiction than people might think,
which is currently studying the dwarf planet Ceres. Ion thrusters are considerably more efficient than conventional rocket motors.
#uper-antennacould let Mars rover talk directly with Earth Right now, Mars rovers like Curiosity get roughly 15 minutes to talk to scientists back On earth, twice per day.
The idea is basically to use an array of 256 antenna elements (a 16 x 16 square) all working together to make a uper-antennacapable of directly communicating with Earth.
getting the rest of the way to an orbiter around the Earth isn hard at all.
Amazingly, this huge increase in signal strength will still run within the power limitations of NASA upcoming Mars 2020 rover:
For that power commitment, it will purportedly be able to maintain a signal with a satellite around Earth, 225 million kilometers away.
if it can serve as a proof of concept for direct communications between the Earth
and Mars. The additive characteristics of its compound antenna actually work in both directions; not only will it be able to create more powerful signals to transmit back to Earth,
but it will be able to pick up more powerful signals as well. This will give it a better ability to download information from the Earth,
widening the lines of communication for both scientists and their rover. The Mars 2020 rover won have the luxury of twisting around to make sure it pointing at the Earth at every moment,
and so the antenna is planned to be mounted on a gimbal arm that can lift the antenna and orient it in any direction.
#NASA confirms liquid water flows on Mars NASA has announced that it has discovered flowing liquid salt water on Mars during the Red planet summer months, in
what is the biggest indication to date that the planet either has supported already life, or can support life in the future.
The discovery comes thanks to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its imaging spectrometer, which enabled researchers to find telltale signs of hydrated minerals on streaked-looking slopes.
100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) ur quest on Mars has been to ollow the water, in our search for life in the universe,
albeit briny is flowing today on the surface of Mars. he flows are described as recurring slope lineae.
The darker color on Mars indicates that it probably a shallow subsurface flow, NASA said.
it appears to dry up in the planet fall season only to start up again the following Mars year.
and later paired those images with mineral maps from the spacecraft Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
But the primary data source was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched in 2006 and contains four other primary science instruments
in addition to Hirise and CRISM. he ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these:
desert planet, said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
the more we learn how life could be supported and where there are resources to support life in the future. ack in March,
seemed to indicate that water persisted on the surface of the Red planet for at least a billion years.
as long as humans have been tooling around on planet earth, cancer has been nipping at our heelsnd brains, stomachs, kidneys, and so on.
in turn bringing down planet-warming emissions. But for the first time in nearly half a century, that synchrony between economic growth and energy-related emissions seems to have been broken
and sensing for robots used to explore the moon and planets. It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones.
such as a mission to Mars, will mean small crews working in close confinement with very little to do for long periods of time a prime recipe for disaster.
and returned to Earth in October of last year for safety analysis at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
and preserved for later transportation to Earth, where they will be subjected to scientific analysis. According to NASA,
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011