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(thought some of you might enjoy watching this today...) [center][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GYpbZ.jpg[/IMG][/center] Get ready... Word has it (from a NASA Media Alert) that MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, has observed something new and interesting on the first planet from the Sun, and we're going to cover the official announcement from NASA live! The spacecraft's MESSENGER acronym stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and has been studying the planet more intensely than any probe before it, ever since its arrival there in March 2011. Have we whet your appetite yet? Watch the press conference live as it unfolds on NASA TV at 2 p.m. EST (and enjoy their regular broadcast before then) Link to Site: [url=http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2012/11/nasa-mercury-announcement.html#mkcpgn=fbsci1]inSCIderblogNASATV[/url] and another link: [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html]nasatv[/url] or visit [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_M12-219_MESSENGER_Nov-29_News_Conference.html]nasa.gov[/url] for more details. The news conference participants are: - Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington - Sean Solomon, MESSENGER Principal Investigator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, N.Y. - David Lawrence, MESSENGER Participating Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. - Gregory Neumann, Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. - David Paige, MESSENGER Participating Scientist, University of California, Los Angeles
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My inner geek salutes you. Will be tuning in once I figure out the time difference.
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Haha, No problem Oneiron! It is current 11:19 am EST if that helps. So, 2 hours and 45 minutes to go roughly. NasaTv at the moment is covering the International Space Station from the control room if you're interested. This can be seen on either nasatv links I posted.
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That's 19:00hrs in my time. Will have a look see at that other link, thanks again!
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Thats Brilliant!! Thanks Freeze! I will be watching... It will be 8am here in NZ : ) SO EXCITING!!! I just hope they havnt found a Derelect ; )
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[b][u]UPDATE:[/u][/b] [center][img]http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63139_506389359382080_1397078206_n.jpg[/img][/center] [u]CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)[/u] — A NASA spacecraft has confirmed there’s ice at Mercury’s north pole. Scientists announced Thursday that the orbiting probe, Messenger, has found evidence of frozen water, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. The ice is located in the permanently shadowed region of Mercury’s north pole. It’s thought to be at least one-and-a-half feet deep — and possibly as much as 65 feet deep. Scientists say it’s likely Mercury’s south pole also has ice, though there are no data to support it. Messenger orbits much closer to the north pole than the south.
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Omg that is so cool.

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Thanks Freeze! Thats SO awesome!! Just the fact that there is Water Ice is certainly significant but it may have other possible implications.... On Earth they have discovered Bacteria inside Ice that is still considered living and is 600.000 years old This is a whole colony of bacteria living inside Ice [img]http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/pics/hostilenv02b.jpg[/img] They have also found DNA inside Ice that is 800,000 years old although its wasn't found inside a living creature [url=http://www.livescience.com/7358-oldest-living-ice.html]LiveScience[/url] DNA is quite prevalent in space .. at least the building blocks of DNA are... QUOTE: [url=http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2087758,00.html]TIME:Sience and Space[/url] As far back as the 1960s, it was clear that amino acids, which link up to form proteins, can and do form in space. And now scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are claiming that another set of molecules crucial to life have also rained down on Earth: adenine and guanine, two of the four so-called nucleobases that, along with cytosine and thymine, form the rungs of DNA's ladder-like structure. This worm lives inside Ice but it is usually frozen salt water... [img]http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/xtremelife/images/ice_worm_closeup.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.ehow.com/info_8265816_animals-live-glaciers-icebergs.html]Ice Worms[/url] SO..... You never know!! : )
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wow unexpected! hey tank that ice worm! very cuddlesesque! :o
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I thought you might like him Caenor! ha ha ha ha ha ha : ) [url=http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/1997-news/iceworms.htm]Cuddlesesquel[/url]
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I never realised Mercury could get so cold: 50ºK (-223ºC) to 80ºK(-193ºC) despite its proximity to the Sun.
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Yea.. Its mostly because it doesnt have any atmosphere to trap the heat Venus is actually the hottest planet in our solar system because it has a very thick atmosphere 96% carbon dioxide and VERY dense so a MASSIVE greenhouse effect : )
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Cool!!! :-D All those planets, stars, moons, galaxies out there, some of them must be capable of sustaining life? I never want to meet the Alien though, no matter how much it fascinates me! :-D Oooh that ice worm could be straight out of a 60's Sci-fi classic!

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Pretty exciting... but nothing will excite me like the last few moments of footage from a space probe that shows it being pumelled by the natives of a planet currently undergoing exploration/discovery :D. Ice, impressive. But what interests me most is this organic material...? Hmmm?
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@Pren Well NASA is expected to make another announcement During an important Science Conference the week of Dec 3-7 Apparantly the Scienstist in charge of the Mars Curiosity project has said to the media that there will be an announcement that will make the History books most people are guessing that it will be either evidence of organic life or maybe remanents of it..... My guess is that it might be Methane... which indicates biological processes Which would be VERY cool!! Im with you on the probe/rover being pummelled by natives of the planet!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Now THAT would be something O-O [img]http://www.zengardner.com/wp-content/uploads/marsroveraliens-640x458.png[/img] [img]http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/sda/lowres/sdan304l.jpg[/img]
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right on Freeze
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right on NCC!
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I'm glad you all liked this thread! I will do more in the future for sure! :P
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@tankgirl Gets me excited... Crossing my fingers for organic life. It's about time something happened to spiritually awaken everyone. and/or open up their minds. I'm feeling it, at this point in our history. And if the announcement is bacteria... someone's gettin' punched in the ****in' face!
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Well said Pren
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Me too Pren : ) imagine it.... how people would come together and everything would become more real : )
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