Space Forum / Space Science / August 2004

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunity.html
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE:  Photo shows dune at Endurance crater may have
been formed by water.   August 30, 2004
The highest resolution photos to date of the dune at Endurance crater, taken on

Is planet X (Niburu) a hoax or not?
Jesse

It'd be fun if we did some space colonies, but I don't
think that will happen for a long time.  We've been in
Antarctica for over a century now, and aside from some
scientific research labs and such, no "colonies" have

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/status_report_08_24_04.html
MESSENGER Mission News
August 24, 2004
MESSENGER's Mission Operations Team Successfully Completes Mission's

Maybe, just maybe, there are more spherules in the rocks around Spirit
at Gusev.   It is hard to say for sure...
Are these couple of spherules over at the left middle?  
Sol 210...

-> >I wonder if the NGL people at ETH Zurich have taken into
-> >account that their meteorites were a bit larger before they
-> >encountered Earth's atmosphere.  There may have been
-> >significantly greater amounts of noble gas in the original

Any ideas what might have caused this odd stippled terrain in Hellas?
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/nonmaps/M0404201.gif
Michael

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/19aug_blood.htm
Have Blood, Will Travel
NASA Science News
August 19, 2004

-> At what size limit does the term "moon" no longer apply?  Pluto is
-> apparently not a true "planet", so I'm telling my kids these days that
-> the Sun has eight planets.  Surely not any old rock will qualify as a
-> true "moon".  So when are moons not moons?  Maybe when they ...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=605
Apollo 11 Experiment Still Going Strong after 35 Years
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Media contact: Charli Schuler (818) 393-5467

-> > A solar sail is a spacecraft without a rocket engine. It is pushed along  
-> > directly by light particles from the Sun, reflecting off its giant  
-> > sails. Because it carries no fuel and keeps accelerating over almost  
-> > unlimited distances, it is the only technology ...

Have you seen the latest rear camera photo from Opportunity,looks to
me that it has reached the bottom (or very near so)of endurance
crater.The soil looks a little soft down there where the wheels are
right now,it will be very interesting to see if they can get back out

There has been much ado lately about a collision/formation hypothesis
for The Moon. Under this scenario, a Mars-sized proto-planet collided
with an early pre-Earth, thus exuding the blob which would later
coalesce into the lunar sphere. But is there a chance that The Moon

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/status_report_08_10_04.html
MESSENGER Status Report
August 10, 2004
With a successful launch behind them and a long cruise ahead, MESSENGER

I know that a launch from the equator to a zero inclination orbit gets all
of the advantage of the Earth rotation, but I was wondering if this
advantage works the other way round too. In other words, does a reentering
spacecraft from the due east equatorial orbit have significantly ...