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We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsPlanning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't laugh. According to MIT News, many scientists consider that life on Earth may be descended from organisms that arrived here from the red planet by hitching a ride on meteorites. To try to prove that theory, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard are developing an instrument that may offer some evidence. It's called the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes, or ...
NASA Plans 2025 Manned Mission to Asteroid
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIt's a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025. In keeping with President Barack Obama's 2010 vision, the space agency has shifted its sights from returning to the moon and, instead, is aiming for a smaller -- and possibly more dangerous -- rock in space, Space.com reports. "By 2025, we expect a new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space," Obama said last year at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / ...
BYU Honor Code Differs Slightly From Charlie Sheen Worldview
By David Knowles - AOL NewsTiger blood and cougar ethics just don't mix. After learning that Brandon Davies had been dismissed from the Brigham Young University Cougars basketball team for having premarital sex, a clear violation of the BYU Honor Code, Surge Desk couldn't help but reflect on a very different set of moral standards: those of self-destructive actor Charlie Sheen. Like two ends of an ethical spectrum, here's a handy comparison between the BYU Honor Code and some recent Charlie Sheen quotes. Drugs BYU Honor Code: "Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance ...
Who Is Cupid? 5 Facts About the Valentine's Day Icon
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThat little cherub on your Valentine's Day card represents thousands of years of history. Cupid's name has become synonymous with love, matchmaking and all the red and pink glitz on Feb. 14. But what do we really know about him? Surge Desk decided to learn more about Cupid's legend. 1. He came from Roman mythology Cupid was the Roman god of love, and ancient images of him were much like modern ones: He was depicted as a winged baby or young man with a bow and a quiver full of arrows. His name derives from "cupido," or desire. Greeks had their own Cupid-equivalent, known as Eros. 2. He had a ...
Mars in Moscow: Crew Simulates Landing on Red Planet
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA Russian space mission "landed" on Mars today, but it wasn't exactly one giant leap for mankind. The mission was only simulated, so the Mars walk didn't actually take the six men outside of Moscow. The mock landing is part of an experiment to test the effects of the long flight to the actual red planet -- which takes more than a year -- on astronauts. So far, all missions to Mars have been unmanned. After spending 257 days traveling in the simulated conditions of outer space, the crew of Russian, French, Chinese and Italian-Colombian cosmonauts emerged from their tiny capsule to plant flags ...
Robonaut to Join Astronauts for Space Mission
By Lee Speigel - AOL News"Warning, warning, Will Robinson!" Ah, the phrase heard around the galaxy from the classic 1960s television series, "Lost in Space." It was the voice of the boy's mechanical pal trying to keep the young Robinson aware of some sort of approaching threat. And now, NASA is about to launch its long-awaited robotic companion to astronauts in space: Robonaut 2. In a unique partnership, NASA and General Motors have come together to develop a new generation of robots for both the automotive and aerospace industries. ...
New Images of Mars Show Massive Craters
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe European Space Agency has unveiled new images of craters dotted across the surface of Mars, some so big they could fit entire mountains on their floor. The images, beamed back from the ESA's Mars Express mission, show so-called pedestal craters in Arabia Terra, a region of Mars' northern hemisphere. The pictures could give astronomers new insight into how meteors, combined with processes such as erosion, shape the Martian landscape. ESA The European Space Agency released this image of pedestral craters in Mars' Arabia Terra. "Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary ...
New Images Show Mars' North Pole Shifting in the Wind
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsNew images of Mars show that ice and gusts of wind are constantly reshaping a huge region of the red planet. The images, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, document sand dunes on the north pole of the planet over four years, revealing that they are subject to sudden, dramatic changes as well as slow, steady change. AFP / Getty Images This NASA image taken on Feb. 9, 2009, shows two classes of aeolian bedforms within Proctor Crater. Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars' northern polar cap are shifting with the ...
Sex in Space: The Final Frontier
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsWell, it had to come up at some point. With all the recent talk about a possible manned mission to Mars, one topic that hasn't had a lot of discussion is this: If we send colonists to the red planet, will sex in space be a problem? And just how much fun is it to experience zero-gravity nookie? Presumably, if we're going to send people to live on another world, they'll want to have sex somewhere in that final frontier. NASA hasn't said much about the subject, and it raises some questions: Have any astronauts done it already? And do we know if children could be conceived and survive in ...
Why Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIf NASA put out the word that it was looking for volunteers to suit up for the first manned mission to Mars, the line outside Cape Canaveral might stretch from there to the moon. But what if they said it was a nine-month trip on a cramped spaceship and there was a possibility you wouldn't be coming home? Despite the possibility of those conditions, at least 400 brave souls have said "yes" in response to a new book, "The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet" (Cosmology Science Publishers). The book is a combined effort of more than 70 scientists, detailing the steps leading up to ...
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