January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... to carve Valles Marineris. With a volume of 9.85 million cubic kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. Nonetheless, it still means that 98.5 million cubic kilometres...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...or recently launched. Following the successful Hayabusa mission, Hayabusa-2, launched in November 2014, will perform a sample return of a water-rich asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx mission to be launched later in 2016 was selected under NASA’s New Frontiers...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... previous studies. "We find that it doesn't matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present," said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... break the bonds of molecules into their constituent atoms. This is a process known as photodissociation and in the case of a water molecule, once it is broken up, the very light hydrogen atoms can escape the exoplanets’ atmosphere. Instruments such...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
...The way in which ALMA's Band 5 receivers will measure water reduces some of these difficulties thus enabling ALMA to look ... full ALMA array will allow us to make detailed studies of water in a wide range of objects including forming and evolved stars,...
03 May 2016
Martian Seasonal Streaks May be Caused by Boiling Water
... theory that seasonal dark lines on Mars are created by water. They had constructed models and simulated Martian conditions in an... on the study. "This process in which unstable boiling water causes grains to hop and trigger slope failures may underlie...
