Category Archives: Out in Space

New discoveries and how they might affect us.

Night Sky: Mars

Every night at 11pm I take the dog outside one last time before going to bed. For most of the last week or so the air has been crisp and the night sky clear and bright. As the dog does his thing, my eyes gaze over the sky looking for familiar points of light. At 11pm [...]
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Water On The Moon

NASA announced last night that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, had successfully discovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater on the moon. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts in the Cabeus crater October 9 that created a plume of material from the bottom of a [...]
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Phoenix Finds Water On Mars

There has always been hope, and some possibly believed that there is water on the red planet Mars, but this week we found out the truth. Yes, there is water on Mars! This is the first step in finding out if there is, or ever was, life on that planet, and whether or not the [...]
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