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POPSCoke-Sponsored Rover Finds Evidence Of Dasani On Mars The logo-covered rover touched down Sunday, landing inside a crater newly christened Lymoni Spritenum. The rover then used its abrasion tool to grind below the surface, where it located cracks filled with several types of gray hematites—minerals known to form only in the presence of Dasani. "It's true that pure, delicious Dasani is one of the most common compounds in the universe," Chen said. "But the abundant mineral deposits in the rocks indicate that the cool, life-enriching Dasani was indigenous to Mars, rather than the frozen Dasani core of a comet that collided with the planet."
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POPSAllentown PA Company Helps NASA with Mars Project Coatings company applies high-tech protective coating to valves that NASA plans to use to extract oxygen from lunar and Martian soil. By using the oxide-rich soil, NASA will be able to provide oxygen for astronauts to breathe and for propulsion, eliminating the need for spacecraft to carry heavy loads of liquid oxygen.
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POPSHow Interplanetary Internet Will Work Wiring the Solar System Take a look at the the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover mission and you will understand space explorers need an interplanetary Internet for deep space communications. Data from the Pathfinder trickled back at an average rate of about 300 bits per second during its mission. Most likely, your computer can transfer data at least 200 times faster than that. An Internet between Mars and Earth would likely yield a data transfer rate of 11,000 bits per second. That is still much slower than your computer's transfer rate, but it would be enough to send back more detailed images of the Mars surface. Mars Network researchers think that the transfer rate could eventually go to about 1 Megabyte (8,288,608 bits) per second and allow anyone to take a virtual trip to Mars.
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POPSMars too salty to sustain life As if that was the only reason. They do seem to make a lot of assumptions about the way life is established. Nature has a way of finding unique solutions. Of course scientists are always being surprised.
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POPS'Life on Mars' A Chinese website has posted the first sighting of Martian life in the form of a mysterious figure caught on camera by NASA's Spirit rover. Below a few clips from the news media about this remarkable discovery.
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POPSMars rovers still roving I worked with the lead on this project at Cornell. He was so nervous about actually getting the rovers TO Mars, who knew they'd still be going 3 years later!
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