Under a Rock A cave that's been closed off to human visitors for 30 years has been found to contain high concentrations of microplastics — and that should worry you. Such were the findings of a pair of new studies, the most recent of which was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, […]
Finding liquid water on exoplanets is 100 times more probable than previously thought, boosting the odds of alien life significantly, a new study suggests.
lander is, it has been found that 2% of that sample by volume is water, and the expectation is that it would be like this all across the planet. so that s the big surprise. jon: they should have sent curiosity up there with a divining rod, and maybe they could find some serious amounts of water underground. i suppose that s possible. i mean, i m jesting here, but i suppose it s possible that there is, you know, there are serious deposits of subsurface water. well, the real expectation, jon, or the real knowledge, i should say, is that there is plenty of water frozen into the martian soil as subsurface water. we can think of this in terms of the earth analogy of perma frost in the bow lahr regions of our polar regions of our planet. this is the same situation for mars. it has been identified by radar studies of the planet from orbit that if you look down at the northern hemisphere of mars, there is an enormous amount of water frozen into the surface. the question is has that water