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NASA believes they have evidence that the white stuff in their photos is ice! Once sum small dice sized pieces came loose after a dig, and when they took a photo of the trench 4 days later the small piece had disappeared. Leading them to believe it had evaporated, which proves the white is not salt but ice..
Article Link: www.nasa.gov

A Sol is one day on Mars, so after 9 Martian days, what is Phoenix up to? Well they have been testing the robotic arm, and have done some test digs to make sure everything is ok. They have also discovered some white material just under the surface in the first dig, lets hope its ice..
Video Link: www.youtube.com

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars yesterday after its 422-million-mile (679-million-km) flight from Earth to Mars after launching on Aug. 4, 2007. Phoenix is to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm. For more information and photos follow the link below..
Official Website: www.nasa.gov

These may look similar, but are vastly different. On the left we have Galaxy M101, and on the right Typhoon Rammasun. Rammasun was only a thousand kilometers or so across while M101 (aka the Pinwheel Galaxy) spans about 170,000 light-years. These do look amazingly alike tho, each with arms exhibiting the shape of a simple and beautiful mathematical curve known as a logarithmic spiral..
Article Link: http://apod.nasa.gov

Did you know there’s a black hole in the center of our galaxy? Kasey-Dee Gardner asks the astronomer who discovered it 3 questions..
Video Link: www.youtube.com

This speech which is done by Professor Steven Hawkings is called ‘Why we should go into space’ and is the third in a series of NASA lectures featuring prominent leaders who discuss the benefits provided by space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research to the economy, education, health, and the environment..
Article Link: www.nasa.gov
Video Link (part 1): www.youtube.com
Video Link (part 2): www.youtube.com
Video Link (part 3): www.youtube.com

The ISS (International Space Station) just became more international with the additions of the first part of the Japanese space laboratory named Kibō which means Hope, and Canada’s robotic arm system called Dextre, which will now perform a lot of the ISS’s general maintenance instead of having astronauts do it in space walks..
Kibō Info: www.wikipedia.org
Dextre Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com

A supernova is a stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object. A supernova causes a burst of radiation that may briefly outshine its entire host galaxy before fading from view over several weeks or months. During this short interval, a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun would emit over 10 billion years. The explosion expels much or all of a star’s material at a velocity of up to a tenth the speed of light..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
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Its currently in mission phase 3 called Cruise, which means its flying to Mars. Once it arrives the Phoenix’s assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves. The Phoenix could be the key to knowing if we can create sustainable life on Mars..
Article Link: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu
Video Link: www.youtube.com

Europa is a large moon of Jupiter. Its surface is made of ice, which may have an ocean of water beneath it. Such an ocean could provide a home for living things. The surface layer of ice or ice and water is 50 to 100 miles (80 to 160 km) deep..
Article Link: www.nasa.gov
Video Link: www.youtube.com