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 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
...airborne telescope known as SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) are cementing our understanding of water on the Moon. Previously, water ice in the form of OH (hydroxyl) locked in lunar regolith had been detected, but now research...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... need to be at least several tens of centimetres thick. “This subsurface anomaly on Mars has radar properties matching water or water-rich sediments,” says Roberto Orosei, principal investigator of the MARSIS experiment and lead author of the paper...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
...it packs in an extra neutron in its nucleus. This heavy hydrogen is called deuterium and scientists distinguish one body of water from another by measuring something called the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio I.e how much deuterium there is compared with...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
...investigator of the LAMP instrument from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Finding enough freely available water on the lunar surface would be advantageous to any future Moon missions as it means it would not have to be carried from...
