13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
...'s something to it. I just don't have the answers yet. Nobody does." Both of these organic molecules, oxygen and methane, can be produced from biological processes (i.e from microbes for instance) or through abiotic means (the weathering of rocks...
24 September 2021
New reactor could turn Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel
...a carbon catalyst in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide into methane, is known as the "Sabatier reaction" after the late ...just nanometers big - that can increase the yield of methane. This style of metal-free electrocatalysts benefit from having a...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
...’s surface in a hydrologic cycle that matches our own is methane (CH4). On Earth, this hydro-carbon molecule is pumped ... from Hubble and other observations suggested the existence of liquid methane on Titan. Since then, a number of organic molecules ...
16 March 2016
Fog looms large on Titan
...obscured from view at visible wavelengths. Titan is also thought to undergo Methane cycling, the same hydrological-cycling processes that we see on Earth, but with methane instead. This is corroborated by past studies that have also revealed evidence...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... an an ancient lake. Coupled with new evidence of seasonal methane variations in the martian atmosphere, these new findings are an ..., while water-rock chemistry might have generated the methane, scientists cannot rule out the possibility that the ...
17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... Ellis Relativity’s CEO said that the company had begun testing its new liquid oxygen/liquid methane rocket engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. “We are hard at work developing a series of novel, never-seen-before...
