http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/37667714.html
The Curious Case of Martian Methane
Those of you old enough to have lived through the 1960s might remember
comedian Bill Dana's routine involving "Jose Jimenez," the first
astronaut in space. When asked whether there might be life on Mars,
the reluctant space pioneer replied, "Maybe . . . if I land on a
Saturday night."
Be honest: deep down inside, don't you wish that life of some kind
exists (or at least once existed) on Mars? Whether you do or don't,
the news today out of NASA's Washington headquarters would really have
piqued Jose's interest.
snip
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The above blog is a nice read and has some good thoughts about the
below announcement.
- LRK -
The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet 1.15.2009
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/15jan_marsmethane.htm?list965414
When you read the Sky and Telescope News Blog also consider the length
of time it takes to develop a mission and then how long it takes to
actually fly the mission. I think you almost have to sign on to these
projects back when you are getting your doctorate and then spend the
rest of your career working and waiting and working and waiting.
Put a sensor on a new rover destined for Mars. Rover launch gets put
off until 2011 and by then I will have less hair on my head. :-(
Maybe you have read about the development of the present Mars Rovers
and listened to the Squyres.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.marstoday.com/viewpr.html?pid=15601
Reports Detail NASA Rover Discoveries of Wet Martian History
http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual5700
Squyres, Steven Weldon
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/mer_ready_030513.html
All Systems Go: The Mars Exploration Rovers are Ready for Launch
By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 13 May 2003
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Prepare your students for the long haul and Make It So!
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without
life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like
Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere
so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the
sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.
But there is evidence of a warmer and wetter past -- features
resembling dry riverbeds and minerals that form in the presence of
water indicate water once flowed through Martian sands. Since liquid
water is required for all known forms of life, scientists wonder if
life could have risen on Mars, and if it did, what became of it as the
Martian climate changed.
New research reveals there is hope for Mars yet. The first definitive
detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates the planet is
still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to a
team of NASA and university scientists.
snip
==============================================================
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/15jan_marsmethane.htm?list965414
Jan. 15, 2009: Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts,
apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Indeed
it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with
an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils
away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.
The situation sounds bleak, but research published today in Science
Express reveals new hope for the Red Planet. The first definitive
detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates that Mars is
still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to a
team of NASA and university scientists.
"Methane is quickly destroyed in the Martian atmosphere in a variety
of ways, so our discovery of substantial plumes of methane in the
northern hemisphere of Mars in 2003 indicates some ongoing process is
releasing the gas," says lead author Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center. "At northern mid-summer, methane is released at a
rate comparable to that of the massive hydrocarbon seep at Coal Oil
Point in Santa Barbara, Calif."
snip
==============================================================
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html
Exclusive: NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 16 February 2005
02:09 pm ET
WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space
officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong
evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and
sustained by pockets of water.
The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA's Ames Research
Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted
their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their
paper currently is being peer reviewed.
What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of
the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane
signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably
similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
snip
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
The Curious Case of Martian Methane
Those of you old enough to have lived through the 1960s might remember
comedian Bill Dana's routine involving "Jose Jimenez," the first
astronaut in space. When asked whether there might be life on Mars,
the reluctant space pioneer replied, "Maybe . . . if I land on a
Saturday night."
Be honest: deep down inside, don't you wish that life of some kind
exists (or at least once existed) on Mars? Whether you do or don't,
the news today out of NASA's Washington headquarters would really have
piqued Jose's interest.
snip
------------------------------
The above blog is a nice read and has some good thoughts about the
below announcement.
- LRK -
The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet 1.15.2009
http://science.nasa.gov/
When you read the Sky and Telescope News Blog also consider the length
of time it takes to develop a mission and then how long it takes to
actually fly the mission. I think you almost have to sign on to these
projects back when you are getting your doctorate and then spend the
rest of your career working and waiting and working and waiting.
Put a sensor on a new rover destined for Mars. Rover launch gets put
off until 2011 and by then I will have less hair on my head. :-(
Maybe you have read about the development of the present Mars Rovers
and listened to the Squyres.
------------------------------
http://www.marstoday.com/
Reports Detail NASA Rover Discoveries of Wet Martian History
http://vivo.cornell.edu/
Squyres, Steven Weldon
http://www.space.com/
All Systems Go: The Mars Exploration Rovers are Ready for Launch
By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 13 May 2003
------------------------------
Prepare your students for the long haul and Make It So!
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
==============================
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without
life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like
Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere
so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the
sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.
But there is evidence of a warmer and wetter past -- features
resembling dry riverbeds and minerals that form in the presence of
water indicate water once flowed through Martian sands. Since liquid
water is required for all known forms of life, scientists wonder if
life could have risen on Mars, and if it did, what became of it as the
Martian climate changed.
New research reveals there is hope for Mars yet. The first definitive
detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates the planet is
still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to a
team of NASA and university scientists.
snip
==============================
http://science.nasa.gov/
Jan. 15, 2009: Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts,
apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Indeed
it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with
an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils
away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.
The situation sounds bleak, but research published today in Science
Express reveals new hope for the Red Planet. The first definitive
detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates that Mars is
still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to a
team of NASA and university scientists.
"Methane is quickly destroyed in the Martian atmosphere in a variety
of ways, so our discovery of substantial plumes of methane in the
northern hemisphere of Mars in 2003 indicates some ongoing process is
releasing the gas," says lead author Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center. "At northern mid-summer, methane is released at a
rate comparable to that of the massive hydrocarbon seep at Coal Oil
Point in Santa Barbara, Calif."
snip
==============================
http://www.space.com/
Exclusive: NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 16 February 2005
02:09 pm ET
WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space
officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong
evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and
sustained by pockets of water.
The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA's Ames Research
Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted
their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their
paper currently is being peer reviewed.
What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of
the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane
signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably
similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
snip
==============================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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