I was looking at the large Spirit panorama of the Bonneville...

I would like to know why we don't travel to Mars by first lifting many loads of fuel to the space station. The actual spaceship would be assembled in space,...

Hi guys! I would like to inform you that we recently created a website about the transit of Venus : www.venus2004.org. This website is a part of...

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...

Can anyone give me a basic definition of what the "Holographic Principle" is, exactly? S.B.

Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington March 8, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone:...

I was hoping someone could help me with the following question. I am trying to understand something of the size of the universe, and I came accross a quote...

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...

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...

The RAT has produced a nice cross-section of a Mars Blueberry. To my eye, it looks to be layered, not concentrically, but rather in a linear way, which...

See half donut shaped feature on Sol 54 Spirit microscope images Has anyone any ideas what this feature is - looks like nothing I've ever seen - looks as...

Hi, I an very curious about something! Hope I can articulate my question. The question is relating to gravity and earth's position in space. Imagine you are...

Hi what it says that the temperature when bigbang happened was 100 million trillion trillion degrees , but the temperature is caused my random movements...

Does anyone know how the Spirit and Opportunity mars rovers are communication with the earth receivers, protocol, frequency? Is encryption used? Thanks.

I'd like to see them.

Here's an article that CNN has about nuclear power on space probes. I list some questions about it...

Joe Knapp wrote: JPL has posted new raw microscopic images of the spheres in situ, embedded in the outcrop--pics taken 4am PST Sunday (sol 15): ...

(lower right) http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040225a/xpe_First_Opp_RAT-B032R1.jpg http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/

Hello folks, and thanks for taking time to answer my question. I would just love to have some really high resolution pictures of mars taken latly by spitit...

On the marsrovers website today, there is a Spirit "look-back" panorama on the home page. If one views this at full resolution, and scrolls about 3/4 way to...