September 2009 Archives

Here are some interesting lunar facts from the Fun Facts Girls.

Nasa's Viking 2 probe came within inches of discovering water on Mars some 33 years ago.

Last week it was announced the sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had spotted water in five freshly-made impact craters.

It's time to stay indoors - for conditions in outer space aren't looking good.

If you are going to take the trip to Mars anytime soon, you're going to have to take something more protective than just a rain coat.

British scientists take the ExoMars Rover out for a spin around a quarry.

The six-wheeled ESA robot has a provisional launch date of 2018 and will be tootling along on the red planet looking for interesting rocks.

What makes this mechanical explorer different, however, is the rover is largely autonomous - it can 'see' where it's going and navigate the safest path to a destination.

Mercury, the small pock-marked planet closest to our sun, is, surprisingly, one of the least understood objects in our solar system.

It's difficult to see with a telescope or visit thanks to the big blazing ball of yellow in the sky.

American cooking legend Julia Child is now being played by Meryl Streep on the big screen in Julie and Julia.

Well, here's Julia cooking up a different kind of broth - a primordial soup.

They Might Be Giants have moved with the times.

For their new album Here Comes Science includes a correction in song.

I've been waiting for this after I heard the band were updating their original cover of the Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas).

Because it turns out it isn't!

So there's lots of water on the Moon after all.

Scientists have been cockahoop this week after the news that India's ill-fated Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe found the wet stuff before it want kaputt.

Visibility was low this week in the eastern Australian states of New South Wales when a huge dust storm hit.

Millions of tons of red dust was dumped on towns and cities.

New ancient, man-made markings have been found on the Earth - in Kazakhstan, to be precise.

So the former Eastern-bloc country now has something to shout about rather than Borat.