SPACE

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Liquid lakes on Saturns moon:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-152

[Stone]

Liquid lakes on Saturns moon:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-152

Which one? </pedant>

Oh, it's Titan. Cool!

Stone

[ElfQrin]

NASA's Phoenix confirms water ice on Mars, the mission will extend through September 30.

[foxyloxy]

SpaceX webcast is now up here. The launch is set for some where close to 2am UK time.

[matt303]

For anyone wanting to play with satellite comms the Delfi-C3 (OSCAR-64) sat has just been switched into transponder mode with a down link in the 2 meter band, when it's not in transponder mode it downloads telemetry instead. You might be able to pick it up using a hand held scanner when it's on an overhead pass.

Delfi-C3 was designed and built by students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. It includes an SSB/CW linear transponder. The satellite will be in telemetry-only mode for the first three months of the mission, after which it will be switched to transponder mode. Delfi-C3 downlinks 1200-baud packet telemetry at 145.870 MHz. The linear transponder, when activated, will have an uplink passband from 435.530 to 435.570 MHz and a corresponding downlink passband from 145.880 to 145.920 MHz.

[benedictw]

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/02 ... e-on-mars/

File this one under 'hmmm'.

It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more "provocative" than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the Mars regolith on Thursday. Whilst NASA scientists are not claiming that life once existed on the Red Planet's surface, new data appears to indicate the "potential for life" more conclusively than the TEGA water results. Apparently these new results are being kept under wraps until further, more detailed analysis can be carried out, but we are assured that this announcement will be huge…

[Bog]

Pfft. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

[RedOktober]

And still...

[Nixie]

They c o m e!

[RedOktober]

It's probably those golf balls Alan Shepard pelted off the moon in 1971.

[Nixie]

I can see them trying to explain it to Bush; no wonder the news isn't to come out for a few months!

[RedOktober]

BUSH: you're saying there are shepherd balls on the mars?

[Mat T]

They probably found oil.

Ho ho.

[RedOktober]

But there's no one to fight for it

[PVB]

But there's no one to fight for it

Bush has seen the film I'm sure.