August 2018
Flying to the stars
... distance between our Sun and the Earth is one metre. The Sun would be the size of a grain of salt on this scale. Still, the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, would be more than 265 km away...
28 September 2015
Images taken by MRO’s HiRISE make case for salt water on Mars, NASA says
...: “We now have great opportunities to be in the right locations on Mars [to search for possible life].” The case for salt water on Mars, as laid out by NASA, is a fascinating one. Careful study of the images of dark streaks (which, incidentally...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
...model (GCM). Two specific components were studied; brine formation through the transition from a solid crystalline salt into an aqueous solution, a process known as deliquescence, and the stability of melt-induced brines against freezing, evaporation...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
... chloride molecules – a compound more commonly known as table salt. This might seem unusual, and indeed only one other instance... a peculiar source that we were unsure whether salt is suitable for seeing gas disks around massive stars,” Tanaka ...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... at the University of Edinburgh provided evidence showing that perchlorate salts, which are widely found in Martian regolith and are toxic... adapted their biochemistry to both temperature and salt conditions furthering the notion that adaptation to ...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... an albedo of about 100 percent. But there are people who are holding out for salt — not necessarily table salt, but salts of various minerals that may be white in appearance. So we have sort of a dichotomy of opinion in the team as to whether...
