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U.S. Returns To the Moon – and Soon!, 2464

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Published on Nov 28, 2018

Synopsis: Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on – Space – the final frontier. Late last night, NASA announced that the United States will be returning to the moon and very, very soon. Although the exact date and details won’t be known until a formal presser held at NASA headquarters tomorrow starting at 2 pm. NASA will stream the briefing live via NASA TV which anyone can watch on YouTube by clicking on the live link in the Description box below or going to: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?eve...tv%2F%23public.

Here’s what we know so far. According to a tweet by NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine the new moon missions will occur “sooner than you think.” Apparently NASA has been working on man returning to the moon for many years, but this time as a public/private partnership with major technology companies already working in the field.

Do the rules of environmental protection extend to exoplanets beyond our solar system?

Saturday, June 22, 2019 by: Edsel Cook
Tags: alien life, climate science, cosmic, environ, environment, environmental regulations, exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, galaxy, goodscience, Milky Way galaxy, outer space, pollution, solar system, space exploration, space travel

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(Natural News) A German researcher did not believe it was possible to justify the environmental protection of planets outside our solar system on the grounds of potential use by humankind in the future. He also believed it was irrelevant to regulate the environments of exoplanets that can support life if the same worlds happened to be lifeless in the first place.
Existing environmental regulations apply to the planets within our solar system. Furthermore, extraterrestrial lifeforms only merit protection if it is possible to investigate them.
There are many exoplanets throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The atmospheres of many of these worlds contain sufficient amounts of oxygen to support terrestrial life, such as human beings. However, most of the alien planets lack any form of life on their surface.
Goethe University researcher Claudius Gros analyzed the issue of environmental protection for exoplanets. He noted that environmental regulations sought to ensure that future generations of human beings could enjoy access to clean air and water necessary for their survival and health.
Environmental regulations place human needs ahead of the needs of other developed organisms like animals and plants. Microorganisms and other lower life forms get the short end of the stick. Bacteria and the like only get protected if they are useful for humans. (Related: New, exotic class of planets outside our solar system made out of GEMS.)
Environmental regulations prioritize human needs and judges alien life by its value to research

A theoretical physicist at Goethe’s Frankfurt campus, Gros looked at real-life issues that involve environmental protection on Earth. He used the terrestrial analogs as the measuring stick for the application of environmental regulations to exoplanets.

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) set up international agreements regarding space research in the solar system. Signatories agreed to avoid contaminating existing lifeforms or evidence of earlier organisms.
For example, Europa and other moons might contain simple forms of life. Meanwhile, Mars supposedly supported life in the distant past. The COSPAR regulations sought to preserve the potential evidence of extraterrestrial life for scientific studies.
Notably, the COSPAR guidelines did not say anything about extraterrestrial life being important in and of itself. The protection of alien life depended on its value to human research.
Expert says humans are not going to bother protecting the environments of exoplanets

The COSPAR agreements apply within the boundaries of our solar system. Experts have not yet considered extending those environmental regulations to exoplanets in other planetary systems. Perhaps they can spare the idea some effort, given Breakthrough Starshot and other initiatives are working on small space probes that can reach distant stars.
Gros said that it made little sense for space agencies and space-capable nations to bother with setting environmental regulations for exoplanets. For one thing, the current state of space technology meant spacecraft needed thousands of years to reach another star system. By the time they arrived, their makers would be long dead.
Also, the absence of life on an exoplanet removed any urge to protect its environment. Why waste time and energy preserving the environment of a world if there wasn’t anything alive on it at the moment?
Furthermore, free oxygen disrupted the chemical reactions needed for the formation of primitive life. By the time humans reached oxygen-rich exoplanets, the worlds might still be devoid of life.
“Whether there is another way for life to form on these oxygen planets is an open question at this time,” explained Gros. “If not, we would find ourselves living in a universe in which most of the habitable planets are lifeless, and thus suitable for settlement by terrestrial life forms.”

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Goethe-University-Frankfurt.de
ARXIV.org

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If you want to be an astronaut, you may need a good sense of humor: NASA is looking for jokers to join Mars crew

Saturday, June 15, 2019 by: Ethan Huff
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(Natural News) Are you a funny guy or gal who’d love the opportunity to travel to space? If so, then the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wants to hear from you.
The federal space agency is reportedly looking for a jokester to accompany astronauts on a mission to Mars that’s set to take place sometime in the 2030s, the purpose being to help keep morale high on the planned, two-year journey.

According to an anthropologist from University of Florida, having a “class clown” on long space missions like this one is essential for defusing tension and building social bridges.
“These are people that have the ability to pull everyone together, bridge gaps when tensions appear and really boost morale,” Jeffrey Johnson, who’s working with NASA to find the best candidates for this job, is quoted as saying.
“When you’re living with others in a confined space for a long period of time, such as on a mission to Mars, tensions are likely to fray.”
Having practical jokers accompany long-term workers in Antarctica has already proven successful
Johnson came up with the idea after studying long-term workers in Antarctica, another isolated group that he found did all-around better when a joker was present to lighten the mood.
“These roles are informal,” Johnson says. “They emerge within the group. But the interesting thing is that if you have the right combination the group does very well. And if you don’t, the group does very badly.”
This is especially true out in space, where communication delays back to earth can be up to 20 minutes long, not to mention the fact that living in space is much different than living on earth – including the fact that there’s little-to-no access to proper health care in space.
“It’s vital you have somebody who can help everyone get along, so they can do their jobs and get there and back safely,” Johnson contends. “It’s mission critical.”
If you’re a scientist and engineer who believes you’re capable of functioning well in isolation far away from earth for years on end, get in touch with NASA
Johnson made the case for having a class clown on space missions during the recent annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, entitled: “Building a Winning Team for Missions to Mars.”
In Johnson’s view, groups and teams, regardless of whether or not they’re in space, always work better when they have somebody “who takes on the role of class clown.”
“We can all think of the person at work who fulfills this role, who makes us laugh and makes the job more enjoyable,” he says. “People like being around them.”
But it’s not enough to just be funny, Johnson says. The right candidate, at least for NASA’s purposes, will also need to be a proper scientist and engineer, and someone who’s capable of passing a “rigorous training regimen.”
It’s also important for the right candidate to be comfortable living in isolation, far away from earth for years on end with just a few other people. In other words, socialites who can’t live without earthly comforts and who always need to be around other people need not apply.
“There are people who are loving and laughable and jovial and endearing, and therefore bring people together. But others who are cruel,” says Johnson.
“When I worked at the South Pole station there was lots of cruel behaviour. There’s a difference between button pushing and being funny. It’s better to become a mascot – get taken in by the group and loved.”
For more news about what’s going on in space these days, be sure to check out Space.news.
You can also learn more about the future of space tourism at SpaceTourism.news.

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Valleys and channels on Mars reveal evidence of ancient groundwater

Saturday, July 13, 2019 by: Edsel Cook
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(Natural News) The deepest parts of the craters that dot the dusty Martian landscape conceal channels and valleys carved out by the passage of liquid water eons ago. European researchers consider them to be signs that Mars possessed a massive groundwater system in its distant past.

Furthermore, the European Space Agency (ESA) research team uncovered evidence of mineral deposits in those craters. On Earth, those same minerals contributed to the appearance of organic life.
In a recent statement, ESA researcher Dmitri Titov stressed the importance of these findings. The formations and minerals mark the regions that had the best chance of harboring evidence of past life on Mars.
The discovery was made by the agency’s Mars Express space probe. Orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, it uncovered geological proof that Mars once hosted a large network of subterranean lakes. Branching channels serve as the connections between these underground bodies of water.
NASA earlier theorized that the Martian underground might contain giant cliffs of ice.
The surface water of ancient Mars moved underground

“Early Mars was a watery world,” said Francesco Salese, a Dutch researcher from Utrecht University. “But as the planet’s climate changed, this water retreated below the surface to form pools and ‘groundwater.’”
Researchers argued over the amount of water present on the surface of Mars. They also disagreed about the role played by the liquid.
Using the sensors of the Mars Express orbiter, Salese and his colleagues tracked the migration of water from the surface to below the red soil of Mars. They announced the first geological evidence that Mars used to have a groundwater system throughout the planet.
Recent studies indicated that Mars used to enjoy warmer temperatures in the past. It seemed that the atmosphere of the planet during that time was thicker and retained more heat. The temperatures appeared to be congenial for the movement of liquid water on the ground.
In the new ESA research effort, Mars Express scanned 24 deep craters in the northern half of the planet. The bottoms of the formations reached depths of 2.5 miles (4 km) beneath the value used as the Martian “sea level.”
Mars currently does not have any sea on its surface. But it used to have one. Instead, researchers calculated an approximate sea level using atmospheric pressure and elevation.
“We think that this ocean may have connected to a system of underground lakes that spread across the entire planet,” remarked D’Annunzio University researcher Gian Gabriele Ori, the co-author of the paper. “These lakes would have existed around 3.5 billion years ago, so [they] may have been contemporaries of a Martian ocean.” (Related: Geological curiosity: Mars “blueberries” reveal what ancient Mars may have looked like.)
Deep Martian craters hold minerals important for basic life

They reported finding evidence of carbonates, silicates, and more than one type of clay in the five deepest craters surveyed by Mars Express. The minerals served as basic ingredients for organic life on Earth, so their presence suggested that ancient Mars also possessed the ingredients to support simple organisms.
Before their latest Mars-related announcement, ESA also released photographs of the southern highlands area of Mars. The rock formations in the region are billions of years old and have undergone considerable erosion over the eons.
Mars Express took snapshots of an area found between the Hellas and Huygens craters. Despite the destructive effects of erosion, several valleys displayed dendritic structures – familiar shapes that resembled trees – and riverbeds on Earth.
The dendritic structures suggested that the Martian surface used to be covered in water. The new ESA study suggests that much of that water went underground and formed subterranean lakes.

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Space.com
ESA.int


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AI detects ‘mysterious repeating’ signals from ‘alien galaxy’ 3 billion light years away

Published time: 11 Sep, 2018 16:38 Edited time: 12 Sep, 2018 09:25



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Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a project involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), have used AI to study signals from distant galaxies and found that we may have missed a lot in the hunt for alien life.
The team, led by UC Berkeley doctoral student Gerry Zhang, examined a phenomena known as Fast Radio Bursts or FRBs. These are signals from galaxies billions of light years away from Earth. FRBs last mere milliseconds and are extremely difficult to detect given the vast distances and huge areas involved.
The research is based on an unknown object called a “repeater” that is producing these FRBs, that is affectionately known as ‘FRB 121102,’ and is the only known FRB to have emitted multiple bursts.
“FRBs from 121102 originate in a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years from Earth, but the nature of the object emitting them is unknown. There are many theories, including that they could be the signatures of technology developed by extraterrestrial intelligent life,” the press release said.

The results of the team’s research were published in the Astrophysical Journal on Monday.
The Breakthrough Listen team observed 121102 for a total of five hours at the Green Bank Telescope, collecting 400 terabytes of data in the process. Having examined the raw data, the team were initially able to pinpoint a total of 21 FRBs, all of which took place within a one-hour period, indicating that the object, whatever it is, varies between extreme calm and extreme activity.
Zhang and his team, using neural networks, developed advanced machine learning algorithms to further examine the data and have found an additional 72 bursts which were previously undetected.
“These results hint that there could be vast numbers of additional signals that our current algorithms are missing,” said SETI Institute President and CEO Bill Diamond. “Applying these techniques in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial technologies, or technosignatures, is incredibly compelling, together with addressing the tantalizing phenomena of FRBs” he continued
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Theories about the origins of FRBs range from waves travelling through magnetised nebulae or past supermassive black holes, to mysterious dark matter or even alien technologies.
However, before extraterrestrial xenophiles get too excited about first contact with an alien species, the team were quick to point out they have not detected any discernible pattern to the signal… yet.
“This work is only the beginning of using these powerful methods to find radio transients,” Zhang said. “We hope our success may inspire other serious endeavors in applying machine learning to radio astronomy,” he added.

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