Does anyone know where I can find information on the water filtration system on the International Space Station. I need information the mass of it preferably,...

is it possible that in the low pressure/dry mars environment that static electricity discharges due to dust friction is causing the failures ?

Hi, does anybody know, whether (and where) one can download high resolution pictures? TIA Klaus

Hi, does anybody know whether (and where) one can download high resolution pictures? TIA Klaus

How plausible is Larry Niven's "smoke ring," from the novels "The Integral Trees" and "Smoke Ring"? Can the gas torus be sustained in that density, or would...

A number of people complain about NASA not being able to clean it's solar panels on the Mars rovers. While I think NASA messes up a lot, there are things that...

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES January 15-21, 2004 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now...

I was wondering if anybody has some numbers for average martian insolation, say on the equator. I found some data suggesting that insolation measurements at...

I've made a color image from the raw data available from NASA web site. The image has been made using the following filters: red channel: L4 green channel:...

What is the RF power, frequency and data rate of the transmission from Mars to Earth ?

What if the soil is muddy with a fluid other than water? I thinking here specifically of petroleum or heavy paraffins. As you may be aware, Thomas Gold of...

Since Christmas Day, British mission controllers have listened in vain for a signal from their Beagle 2 Mars lander. A number of questions follows from...

This is the weekly Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) posting for sci.space.tech and sci.space.science . It is crossposted into sci.space.policy to explain...

Hello, Does anyone know MER and/or BEAGLE velocity profiles toward Mars during flight? Yours. Tellu

http://www.cac.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2003archive/12-03archive/k121003.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: Vince Stricherz 206-543-2580 University of...

Why is absolute zero approximately -460 F, yet the maximum possible amount of heat is seemingly infinite? There is certainly an asymmetry. Why is there no...

In the infrared spectrograph trace from the Spirit rover, what do the sharp dips at about 5.5 and 12.5 micrometers mean? Chris W

I can't find any hint that the Mars Express spacecraft can serve as a radio link between the rovers and Earth. Anyone know?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/16jan_stardust.htm Stardust Surprise NASA Science News January 16, 2004 When NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by Comet...

According to BBC Online:- President George W Bush will announce proposals next week to send Americans to Mars but . . . unless and until we have robotically...