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6,000 Square Miles of Frozen Water Ice Estimated in Martian Valles Marineris Canyon.

“We found a central part of Valles Marineris to be packed full of water — far more water than we expected.”

— Alexey Malakhov, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 

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What Is Creating Phosphine — A Biosignature on Earth — in the Atmosphere of Venus?

“I thought we'd just be able to rule out extreme scenarios, like the Venus clouds being stuffed full of organisms. When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus' spectrum, it was a shock!”

— Jane Greaves, Ph.D., Astronomy Group, Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy

 

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Human Births On Mars? New Research Indicates Human Sperm Could Last 200 Years On Red Planet.

“NASA and several organizations are now beginning to plan manned missions to Mars.  ... However, interplanetary deep space is populated not only by microgravity, but also by strong radiation such as galactic cosmic rays, which originate outside the solar system, plus solar particles, which include high-charge, high-energy particles that are difficult to shield from a spacecraft.”

— Science Advances, June 11, 2021

 

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A. I. Robot Dogs Training to Explore Caves On Mars.

“Lava tubes (on Mars) could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies.”

— Francesco Sauro, Ph.D.,  Speleologist and Head, ESA Caves and Pangaea Program, University of Bologna, Italy

 

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Beyond Egypt to Peruvian Plains of Nazca, Cats Mummified for Eternal Life.

“The ancient Egyptians were not obsessed with death. They were obsessed with life!  So mummification was anticipating life after death with the goal to perpetuate living forever.”

— Melinda Zeder, Curator, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D. C., 2011

 

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What Is Creating Phosphine — A Biosignature on Earth — in the Atmosphere of Venus?

“I thought we'd just be able to rule out extreme scenarios, like the Venus clouds being stuffed full of organisms. When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus' spectrum, it was a shock!”

— Jane Greaves, Ph.D., Astronomy Group, Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy


“Either this Venus phosphine discovery is a mistaken identity, that we don't know what the chemical is? Or some strange chemistry that we are not aware of? Or biology.”

— Sanjay Limaye, Ph.D., Sr. Scientist, Solar System Planet Atmospheres, Space Science and Engineering Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison 

 

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A Mysterious White Spot in Martian Sky and Surprising Methane Spike On the Red Planet.

“Cosmic ray particles accelerated to near the speed of light can shoot into our solar system and can hit the Curiosity rover camera images leaving a bright spot.”

— Doug Ellison, NASA Technician with Curiosity rover camera

“The first step to understanding the ultimate question — what is the origin of the Martian methane? — is to understand where it is released.”

— Planetary scientist Marco Giuranna, Ph.D., Italian National Institute for Astrophysics

 

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Mars: Why It’s A Strange Cloud and Not Volcano Smoke.

ESA Press Release September 13, 2018: "Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator. In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region." Image by European Space Agency/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao.
ESA Press Release September 13, 2018: "Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator. In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region." Image by European Space Agency/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao.

 

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Underground Lake Reported Beneath Martian South Pole.

— “This really qualifies as a body of water. A lake, not some kind of meltwater filling some space between rock and ice, as happens in certain glaciers on Earth.”
- Roberto Orosei, Ph.D., Astrophysicist, Italian Nat'l. Institute for Astrophysics

— “We are not closer to actually detecting life, but what this finding does is give us the location of where to look on Mars. It is like a treasure map — except in this case, there will be lots of  'X's  marking the (underwater) spots.” - Manish Patel, Ph. D., Senior Lecturer,  Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, U. K.'s  Open University

 

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