Water Inside The Moon - A Lot Of It
Updated: 2011-05-31 00:24:37
Science 2.0: There is water inside the moon. A lot, it turns out, according to the first measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions, which show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as the Earth’s upper mantle.Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits formed during explosive eruptions. The new findings show lunar magma water contents are 100 times higher than previous studies have suggested.read more
The Eyes To The Skies Author : nbsp Marian Comments(0 It seems as if man has always looked to the skies , and not just for answers to its own inherent mystery , either . We told stories about the pictures we seemed to see in the stars . We believed that close study of the positions of the celestial bodies could predict future events . The night sky showed the homes and areas of influence of a whole flock of deities . The more we could see , the more intriguing became the . sight On October 2, 1608, application was made for a patent for a device which allowed for seeing things far away as if they were nearby Before that there was a rich history of men using lenses , mirrors , even rock crystals to see things far away as if they were nearby . Aristophanes mentions the use of a burning glass”
Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet Globular Clusters Are Real Oddballs by Tammy Plotner on May 30, 2011 Share M80 Image Credit : NASA , The Hubble Heritage Team , STScI , AURA Hanging onto the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy like cockle burs on a shaggy dog’s coat , globular clusters contain over hundreds of thousands of stars . Estimated to be up to ten billion years old , these spherical stellar seed pods are gravitationally bound together and tend to be more dense towards their cores . We’ve long known all the stars contained within a globular cluster to be about the same age and the individual members most likely formed at the same time as the parent galaxy but what we weren’t expecting was change . We thought we
. Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet Dead Galaxy Don’t Think . So by Tammy Plotner on May 30, 2011 Share University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars . The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with . time There was a time when most astronomers concluded that elliptical galaxies were a lot like their globular clusters full of similarly evolved and aged stars . But not anymore . Thanks to the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope , a team of researchers from the University of Michigan were able to peer into the heart of Messier 105 and pick out several young stars and clusters . Apparently , The reports of my death have been
Method The Epidemic : Typhoid at Cornell Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Parts of moon interior as wet as Earth's upper mantle post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Cleveland OH SPX May 30, 2011 Parts of the moon's interior contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth 100 times more of the precious liquid than measured before research from Case Western Reserve University , Carnegie Institution for Science , and Brown University shows . The scientists discovered water along with volatile elements in lunar
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Method Bull . Shit Literally Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Zapping deadly bacteria using space technology post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Paris ESA May 30, 2011 Technology developed with ESA funding and drawing on long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections . Using plasma superheated , electrically charged gas Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics director Gregor Morfill is developing ways to kill bacteria
Method Parts of moon interior as wet as Earth's upper mantle Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Paolos wild ride down from ISS onboard Soyuz TMA-20 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Paris ESA May 30, 2011 For the first time since his landing on Tuesday , ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli was again in the public eye yesterday at a press conference . A smiling Paolo talked about his ride back to Earth and how he was feeling gravity again after his long stay in space . It was really an experience said Paolo at the press
Method Paolos wild ride down from ISS onboard Soyuz TMA-20 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . ASU to build mineral survey instrument post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Tempe AZ SPX May 30, 2011 A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration SESE The ASU instrument will analyze long-wavelength infrared light emitted from the asteroid to map the minerals on its surface . The
Method Cosmica Spacelines And XCOR Aerospace Tout Suborbital Payload Flight Opportunties Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . UA is Top University Contributing to Global Planetary Exploration Research post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Tucson AZ SPX May 30, 2011 Thomson Reuters Corporation data shows that only NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the world's top players in spacecraft design , construction , launch and science operations are ahead of UA's planetary sciences with regard to impact in the scientific
Method Very Large Telescope , Very Stunning Time Lapse Video Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Should India Go Suborbital post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Sydney , Australia SPX May 30, 2011 What is happening with India's human spaceflight program It's hard to be sure . India's space program has experienced mixed results in the past two years , with the success of some missions being overshadowed by some major failures . The failures of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV have drawn a lot of
Method CU-Boulder to participate in NASA mission to land on an asteroid Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Second Rocky World Makes Kepler-10 a Multi-Planet System post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moffett Field CA SPX May 30, 2011 The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet , one they describe as a scorched , molten Earth . The planet is about 2 times the size of Earth , and is very close to the Sun-like star Kepler-10, completing an orbit in only 45 days . Being so close to its sun , the blazing-hot
Method Endeavour undocks from International Space Station Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . CU-Boulder to participate in NASA mission to land on an asteroid post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Boulder CO SPX May 30, 2011 A University of Colorado Boulder team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation of the solar system and perhaps even the first inklings of life . The mission , called the
Method Zapping deadly bacteria using space technology Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . A mole to explore the interior of Mars post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Berlin , Germany SPX May 30, 2011 The final contenders in NASA's Discovery programme , which invites scientists to propose unmanned planetary missions , have been announced . The Geophysical Monitoring Station GEMS for Mars mission proposal has made it to the final round of decision-making . The German Aerospace Center is significantly involved with the
Method Endeavour undocks from International Space Station Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Opportunity Spies Outcrop Ahead post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 May 2011 04:16:23 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL May 30, 2011 Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with less than 3.5 kilometers 2.17 miles before the first landfall . The rover drove on three of the last seven sols . Opportunity started with a challenge . On Sol 2601 May 19, 2011 a long drive was cut short by a cosmic ray-induced single event upset SEU in the electronics
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