Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Signs of Flowing Water on Mars

NASA pho­tos have re­vealed bright new de­posits in two gul­lies on Mars that sug­gest wa­ter coursed through these ditches some­time in the past sev­en years, re­search­ers say..........

World Science

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Scientists Find Organic Materials Inside Meteorite

NASA researchers at Johnson Space Center, Houston have found organic materials that formed in the most distant reaches of the early Solar System preserved in a unique meteorite. The study was performed on the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite, a rare type of meteorite that is rich in organic (carbon-bearing) compounds..........

Science Daily

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

NASA Announces Plans for Lunar Base

NASA an­nounced plans today to build a per­ma­nent base on the moon by 2024.“With such an out­post, NASA can learn to use the moon’s nat­u­ral re­sources to live off the land, make prepa­ra­tions for a jour­ney to Mars, con­duct a wide range of sci­en­tif­ic in­ves­ti­ga­tions and en­cour­age in­ter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pa­tion,” the agen­cy said in a state­ment..........

World Science