Researchers from Western University in London, Ont., have found a unique subsurface ice feature in a location that would be optimal for future explorers of the Red Planet.
CanMoon mission trains Canada s future leaders in lunar exploration
Scott Sutherland
mardi, 20 août 2019 à 20:00 - What s Up In Space? Training Canada s new generation of lunar explorers!
In the next decade, a new wave of lunar exploration is set to take off, and if you wanted to meet some of the future leaders and scientists for these missions, there was no better place to be, over the past two weeks, than the University of Western Ontario.
Walking through the hallways of a fairly non-descript campus building, two small signs, attached to the doors of two otherwise unremarkable classrooms, are the only clues that there s some pretty out-of-this-world science taking place inside.
On Snowball Mars , immense glaciers may have sheltered ancient microbial life
Scott Sutherland
mercredi, 5 août 2020 à 14:20 - An island in Canada s far north has helped scientists paint a very different picture of ancient Mars
What was Mars like billions of years ago? Was it truly a blue and green world, similar to Earth? Or was it something else? In a new study, Canadian researchers suggest the Red Planet may have been a Snowball Planet, with thick ice sheets covering the surface.
Over decades of Mars exploration, evidence sent back by robotic missions has presented a strong case that the planet was once a much warmer and wetter place, long ago. According to scientists, surface water on Mars would have even been suitable to drink, if we had been there at the time to sample it. It would undoubtedly have supported microbial life as we know it, as well. This has led to the idea that Mars was very Earth-like, with rainfall, and flowing rivers carving out the valleys and channel
By Skylar McCarthy
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On February 18, the Mars Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater. However, this isn’t the first time we put a rover on Mars. The Curiosity rover was the first one back in 2012, but cameras at that point never showed the rover land. But there are also Canadians who are also helping with the project. Tim Haltigin is a Senior Mission Scientist at the Canadian Space Agency. He’s helping lead the team that’s planning the science program for the overall Mars sample return campaign. He says Canadians from all aspects are working on the project.