Breaking News: Water Found on Mars, Again

Lakes and Rivers and Deltas, oh my!

OMG, they found evidence of water on Mars! Can you believe it? And apparently, it's not just regular water, it's "hardworking" water. None of that slacker, do-nothing water for Mars.

Why do I have the strangest feeling of deja vu?

I don't mean to make fun of the research, it's actually pretty cool stuff, but seriously people, we get it, Mars was wet. Really wet. For a long time.

image credit/copyright: Ellen Roper (GCC)

New Painting

I came across this anonymous quote somewhere recently:

"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the Moon."

And it inspired this painting...



I think I'm going to use the quote as the title, which is a ridiculously long title, but for some reason it makes me happy.

Star Trek is what's killing the space program!?

According to Buzz Aldrin, the lack of interest among "young people" in the space program is due to "all the shows where they beam people around and things like that" because "they have made young people think that that is what the space program should be doing. It's not realistic."

Wow, I'm thinking that would come as quite a surprise to the hundreds of NASA scientists and engineers (myself included) that cite Star Trek in particular and science fiction in general as one of the main things that got them interested in space.

The literal kind of space art

Okay, I'm a space artist, by which I mean I paint space-related things, but this guy is a more literal kind of space artist, in that he attempted to paint in zero-G on board a vomit comet. Apparently he's into creating art "in impractical places." You can judge his success for yourself, here is the video. (via NASAwatch)

Just for fun

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So I nearly failed the Moon survival challenge because my answers didn't match "NASA's" however, I stand by my choices and I seriously doubt that NASA would agree that a flashlight isn't important unless you're on the "dark side" and I don't know anything about how flares work, but I'm guessing not that well without an atmosphere. I'm just saying.

This made me laugh today

For all the geologists out there...

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/fishmato/?action=view¤t=AmericanDad.flv

Carnival of Space #57

Every week a different webmaster or blogger hosts something called the "Carnival of Space" which is a collection of highlight from the week from various space blogs and other articles written on the general topic of space.

This week's Carnival is hosted by Ken, the Lunar Librarian at Out of the Cradle and covers last weeks International Space Development Conference and a lot of stuff on Phoenix. There's also a quick interview with my boss, Ed Weiler and tons of other fascinating stuff. Plus, this week's theme is "Women of our space future"

Worth checking out.