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[hemmond]

Well... NASA learned  from their mistakes... It's wonder, that with this amount of missions and projects, so little went wrong.... They are precise. And they must be... Lives of many (STS missions: 12 persons) depends on flawless flight...

Curiosity had pretty over-engineered landing... But it worked... IMHO, we can look forward to new informations and photos from the red planet.

And Mars One is pretty ambitious reality show. But it might work... If Human factor (psychology of people sent there for the rest of their lives) won't fail...

[Niri Te]

 I wish that I was 40 years younger Hemmond, I would go in a HEARTBEAT, but at 62, I am doomed to ROT on this armpit of the Universe.
Niri Te

[hemmond]

Honestly... I'm 19 and I would rather rot here, than go on a voyage to the universe without means of return... I think I wouldn't be able to simply let my friends, family and people I care of behind... And also I would miss my hobbies, Earth nature, forests, snow, or just people around...

[Niri Te]

 I am a retired Aerospace Engineer, Science Freak, and "out THERE" is the only place that I ever really wanted to be. I was just born a little too soon, that's all.
Niri Te

[Yaknun]

I was just born a little too soon, that's all.

Oh yes, I'm also.
When I was 15, I was crazy about the big car  

The third star from the left was my favorite and my dream to flight to him 

I think 100 years or more after now it is possible 

[Niri Te]

 For me is has been, and always will be the Orion Nebula. 
Niri Te

[Yaknun]

Oh yes - here are lot of wonderful pictures 

[Tsanten Eywa 'eveng]

I always wanted to travel to Titan. It's the closest world that is some way look-alike Earth. It has mountains, stable atmosphere and oceans, but deadly oceans, methane oceans

I want to see if there are caves and caverns on Titan, that is what I want to explore there
I really want to find if there are some kind of life-forms on Titan

[hemmond]

I am a retired Aerospace Engineer, Science Freak, and "out THERE" is the only place that I ever really wanted to be. I was just born a little too soon, that's all.
Niri Te

Well... I am pretty much science freak too and I want to go "out there" too... My dream is commanding a space ship (damn big space ship ) and go there for some exploring... Even with the odds, I might get stuck there or die there... But I want to have at least chance to go back to Earth... (So I would never go on one-way mission)... We can just wait for the moment, humankind will colonize the space... That moment can begin sooner, if some friendly Aliens visit our piece of rock here... But that's just a childhood dream. (But everyone should have some... If not fulfilled, he might move science further, so others with the same dream can "finish the job")

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

My favorite pllace might be near the veil nebula

http://www.google.de/search?q=orionnebel&hl=de&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=2o09UNWAEo3BtAaWsoGYAw&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=885#hl=de&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=veil+nebula&oq=veil+&gs_l=img.3.0.0j0i10j0l8.59492.67271.1.69644.14.14.0.0.0.0.106.832.13j1.14.0...0.0...1c.kwvoDK7nVXA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=d8ed55ac83c22cc1&biw=1280&bih=606

There's also a very energetic quasar that has been discovered in Leo but I don't think I want to be very close to a quasar. Perhaps on a planet in the habitable zone of one of  the red dwarf stars in Leo (Like Wolf 359). It will still be shining steadily after our sun has become a white dwarf. I can propagate lions there until the whole galaxy has lions, and no legislature will exist to stop me

[moonbeam]

school students will send up teddybears in space from Andøya rocket range in Norway 18th of august 2012

Norway celebrates 50 years in space. Norway started in 1962 when Ferdinand 1 was sent up from Andøya 18th of august 1962



translated to english:
http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnrk.no%2Fnyheter%2Fdistrikt%2Fnordland%2F1.7805587

website in Norwegian:
http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.7805587

I gt got to say. This is really cute. We could get a kid's book out of this if anybody ever writes it.

[Tsanten Eywa 'eveng]

Tomorrow the Dawn spacecraft is leaving from the asteroid Vesta and is set to continue it's journey to the dwarfplanet Ceres
It will scheduled to arrive at Ceres in february 2015
http://www.space.com/17388-dawn-set-to-leave-protoplanet-vesta.html


Also a new Star Wars "Tatooine" world has been found orbiting 2 stars
it orbits around Kepler-47, 4900 light years from Earth
http://www.space.com/17376-sharing-the-light-of-two-suns.html

[Tsanten Eywa 'eveng]

SETI(Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is starting up again their search for alien life:

http://www.space.com/17392-seti-alien-search-uwingu-funding.html


The cash-strapped SETI Institute is set to get money from a new start-up firm to aid in its search for alien life.

The start-up company, called Uwingu, recently launched with an aim to fill gaps in space research funding. The firm announced Wednesday (Aug. 29) that its first bundle of available cash will go to the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a set of 42 radio dishes in Northern California designed to pick up extraterrestrial signals.



"We don't have to wait to begin helping space research until we launch our first product, we're starting now!" Uwingu CEO Alan Stern said in a statement. "SETI is one of the noblest and most important space research enterprises," added Stern, a planetary scientist and the former associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

Uwingu launched a crowdsourcing campaign on IndieGoGo earlier this month to raise at least $75,000 in seed money, and it says half of the cash that comes in after it hits this target will go to the ATA's science team.

As of Thursday afternoon, Uwingu (which means "sky" in Swahili) had raised just over $29,000. The company's campaign closes Sept. 14.

[Tsanten Eywa 'eveng]

There is snow on Mars!!

NASA has confirmed a 100% evidence, that there is snow on Mars

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-snow-flurry-big-pic-120912.html#mkcpgn=fbdsc17

Catching snowflakes on your tongue might be a fun event during a winter flurry here on Earth, but you probably wouldn't want to try it on Mars -- the flakes there are made of carbon dioxide "dry ice" and at temperatures of -125ºC (-193ºF) the fun level would be dramatically decreased!

Scientists have long known that Mars has frozen carbon dioxide on its surface, both as surface and subsurface frost and in enormous ice caps covering its north and south poles. But it wasn't exactly understood how the dry ice got there... did it condense from the air at ground level, building up as layers of frost? Or did it accumulate from the top down, precipitating from clouds like water ice snow does on Earth?

[Tìtstewan]

When it is snowing, is deposited a layer over the next. Over time, it is becoming more and more similar to glaciers on Earth.
Why not the same on Mars?

[Irtaviš Ačankif]

Umm...dry ice does not melt, and they get harder, rather than softer, when under pressure. Glaciers are the way they are because the water on the bottom layer melts a little under the huge pressure and the whole things slides sloooowwwly floward.

Even big piles of water ice would not become glaciers on Mars. The atmospheric pressure is so low that the ice would slowly sublime away, even if the temperature is very low.

[Tìtstewan]

I meant instead of glacier the ice shields like Greenland or Antarctica...

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Probably because the temperatures and pressures on Mars are around the triple point of carbon dioxide such that the snow either condenses directly out of the air as snow (likely even forming crystals in the process), or sublimes directly to a gas. there is no liquid carbon dioxide on Mars that we are aware of.

[moonbeam]

There is snow on Mars!!

NASA has confirmed a 100% evidence, that there is snow on Mars

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-snow-flurry-big-pic-120912.html#mkcpgn=fbdsc17

Catching snowflakes on your tongue might be a fun event during a winter flurry here on Earth, but you probably wouldn't want to try it on Mars -- the flakes there are made of carbon dioxide "dry ice" and at temperatures of -125ºC (-193ºF) the fun level would be dramatically decreased!

Scientists have long known that Mars has frozen carbon dioxide on its surface, both as surface and subsurface frost and in enormous ice caps covering its north and south poles. But it wasn't exactly understood how the dry ice got there... did it condense from the air at ground level, building up as layers of frost? Or did it accumulate from the top down, precipitating from clouds like water ice snow does on Earth?

Oh, cool! They figured out where Space Santa lives!

[Clarke]

Probably because the temperatures and pressures on Mars are around the triple point of carbon dioxide such that the snow either condenses directly out of the air as snow (likely even forming crystals in the process), or sublimes directly to a gas. there is no liquid carbon dioxide on Mars that we are aware of.

Liquid CO2 doesn't exist on Earth either, without some fiddling. Hence, "dry" ice.