Posts Tagged ‘water’
Europa’s oceans have Oxygen – enough for life to exist.
Europa is a cool moon. Very cool if you consider that it has an outer core of solid ice a few miles deep. Below the ice there is liquid water. Lots of water... Twice the amount of all of the oceans of earth combined. Until recently, the main issue for "life on Europa" was that despite oxygen being present on the surface, it was not known [...]
No visible 10km Plume from LCROSS impact
According to NASA TV there was no significant visible plume from the impact of the spacecraft. There is good spectographic data and it does show Sodium a cause for some excitement as it wasn't expected. Regarding the spectorgraphic data, they are being cautiously optimistic despite the lack of a visible plume, but they point blank refused [...]
Watch LCROSS hit the moon live on NASA TV
If you are in Ireland (or Europe) you won't be able to pull out a telescope and see the lunar impact live. The event starts about 12:15 lunchtime GMT. BUT you can see it live on NASA TV. So dont miss it ! Oh and make a copy in case they lose this footage too... For details on when its going to happen you can check out the Countdown
Image of the LCROSS Lunar Impact site!
In less than 24 hours the LCROSS will smash into the Cabeus crater 100km from the Lunar south pole. I've already blogged that the idea is to smash into the Lunar surface with one part of the spacecraft, and have the second part fly through the resultant 10km cloud of debris and gather data to see what it found below the surface of the Moon... [...]
Water Water everywhere….
It doesn't rain but it pours! Certainly thats what it feels like when within just a short few hours you start to hear about water on the moon (yes the moon!) and now on Mars. Given the fact that water may be more abundant than previously thought it is reasonable to deduce that we can use this information to help us decide possible future [...]