Space Forum / Space Science / October 2004

-> IIRC Cassini can do radar imageing, and that should
-> show if the dark areas are flat or not.  If not
-> flat, then it cannot be liquid.  But not all flat
-> areas are liquid.  Maybe it's a big parking lot...

I already posted a question about heat asking how heat travels through
a vacuum, but everybody assumed I was talking about starlight and I
therefore got a bunch of responses relating to photons and
electromagnetic waves. So allow me to rephrase...

MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
0ctober 25-29, 2004
o North Polar Cap (Released 25 October 2004)
 http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20041025a.html

One image shows what vaguely resembles the
eastern seaboard of the USA.
<http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/67879main_pia06139-330-334.jpg>
 Of course that

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exoscientist
dust
10/25/04 10:42 PM

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
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If you have ENTREPRENEURIAL BENT OF MIND, then SKY IS THE LIMIT, you
can SELL this FBI agents' NOC LIST and MAKE MILLIONS of dollars like
Tom Cruise (Ethan) did in the movie MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
Remember, NOBODY has to FOLLOW THE RULES since the SADISTIC FBI DID

-> With current technology, we could:
-> Get to Mars in about a week.
-> Get to the Pluto/Charon binary world in about ten days.
-> Get to Alpha Centauri in about a month.

Teleporters are better than spaceships and much faster!

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
September 16-22, 2004
The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

There is a little known phenomenon about motion in deep space, which stars
and planets have been moving according to since time began.
It is a motion that science never even tried to explain, let alone observe.
And it is a motion that could get us as far as the nearest star...in ...

   I am not a regular visitor to this group so I hope you dont mind me
crashing in and asking this question but I cannot think of another forum
that is likely to give me an authoritative answer. For a piece of fiction, I
am developing an idea for an interplanetary (paternoster) ...

I've been following all the discoveries of the extrasolar planets with
great interest, particularly the recent Neptune-sized discoveries.
However, most of the new discoveries seem to have orbital periods measured
in days, meaning they must be moving extremely fast and very close to ...

Regarding the five solid spheres; Mars, Venus, Mercury, Earth and its
Moon -- what is currently known about the early periods of cooling and
outgassing? Is it likely that shrouds of carbon dioxide once encircled
all of these globes? Additionally, how much condensation and freezing

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