New Mars Express And Huygens Results, ESA conference - November 30, 2005 |
New Mars Express And Huygens Results, ESA conference - November 30, 2005 |
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Nov 22 2005, 06:15 PM
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http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMA96ULWFE_index_0.html
Relating to Mars Express: "At the same time, ESA’s Mars Express mission is continuing its investigations of Mars, painting a new picture of the 'red planet'. This includes the first ever probing below the surface of Mars, new geological clues with implications for the climate, newly-discovered surface and atmospheric features and, above all, traces of the presence of water on this world." |
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Nov 22 2005, 07:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Anyone will assist to the conference in Paris on November 30 (one week from now)?
Any french people might assist to that, Richard, vikingmars, Rakhir or more or not? Rodolfo |
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Guest_paulanderson_* |
Nov 29 2005, 10:46 PM
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Just a reminder that the press briefing is tomorrow (November 30, 2005) at 10:00 am ET / 7:00 am PT and will be shown live on NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/nov/H...s_Briefing.html |
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Nov 30 2005, 09:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Canberra Member No.: 558 |
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Nov 30 2005, 02:52 AM) The joke is about ESA's habit of making confirmations of already pretty well established things sound like major discoveries in thier press releases! Not wanting to speak for the jokers, but I'm sure they all agree with your above statement. Mars Express has been a wonderful mission but there PR office is a joke. Well I thourght it was funny James Really? And how many times does the NASA press office announce they have found evidence of water on Mars? or that a mission will provide a breakthough on our understanding of the solar system or the universe. The ME press office does an excellent job on a very small budget. Besides, the tone of the above comments to me appear directed at ME and ESA and not their press office. Jon |
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Nov 30 2005, 10:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
QUOTE (JonClarke @ Nov 30 2005, 11:12 AM) Really? And how many times does the NASA press office announce they have found evidence of water on Mars? or that a mission will provide a breakthough on our understanding of the solar system or the universe. The ME press office does an excellent job on a very small budget. Besides, the tone of the above comments to me appear directed at ME and ESA and not their press office. Jon I agree with you Jon. |
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Nov 30 2005, 03:27 PM
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_M...7ZTULWFE_0.html - Buried craters and underground ice /
Mars Express uncovers depths of Mars http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_M...A1UULWFE_0.html - Mars Express evidence for large aquifers on early Mars http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_M...IAUULWFE_0.html - Mars Express discovers new layer in Martian ionosphere http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_M...B4UULWFE_0.html - Mars Express radar reveals complex structure in ionosphere of Mars All Huygens Results http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_M...ULWFE_0_ov.html -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Guest_Sunspot_* |
Nov 30 2005, 03:28 PM
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PARIS -- The European Space Agency will unveil wide-ranging findings Wednesday from a landing on Titan as well as from the first-ever probing below the surface of Mars, which found traces of the presence of water ice.
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/s...ience-headlines |
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Nov 30 2005, 03:30 PM
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I think there's a good chance that they're cranking up for some fairly dramatic news at this press conference: I've been told that the initial science results from MARSIS will be released at next week's AGU meeting, and that some of them "will knock your socks off". I also hope we may finally, at long long long last, be on the verge of seeing the issue of "Nature" with the official Huygens results, with this briefing as a prelude to that.
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Nov 30 2005, 03:31 PM
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Dammit, I wrote that just before seeing SigurdRosFan's announcement...
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Nov 30 2005, 03:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
"If we look at today's evidence, the era in which Mars could have been habitable and sustained life would be the early Noachian, traced by the phyllosilicates, rather than the sulphates. The clay minerals we have mapped could still retain traces of a possible biochemical development on Mars,"
Why is the suphate-forming era not suitable for life? Aren't there acidophilic bacteria that like to munch sulfur, like the famous Snottite colonies? |
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Nov 30 2005, 05:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
Note that clay minerals also occur in Meridiani, presumably under the sulphatic material.
Wild speculation: could the dark layer under the Burns formation in Mogollon Rim be a clayey deposit? tty |
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Nov 30 2005, 05:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Doubtful that the underlying deposits at Meridiani are these phyllosilicate clays that the ESA guys were talking about -- they said very specifically that the closest to either of the rovers they detected these clays were more than 1,000 miles away.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Nov 30 2005, 06:00 PM
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Radar Soundings of the Subsurface of Mars
Picardi, et al. Published online November 30, 2005; 10.1126/science.1122165 (Science Express Research Articles) Abstract Radar Soundings of the Ionosphere of Mars Gurnett, et al. Published online November 30, 2005; 10.1126/science.1121868 (Science Express Research Articles) Abstract |
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Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Nov 30 2005, 06:15 PM
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The December 1, 2005, issue of Nature is now online.
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Nov 30 2005, 06:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
I have access to Nature.....Shall I do something naughty? or will that merely cause headaches for Doug... in which case I obviously won't do it...
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