BOULDER, Colo. -- A University of Colorado-Boulder research team says it has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars.
The scientists, led by researcher Gaetano Di Achille, said the finding is an indication of a deep, ancient lake, with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.
The scientists estimate the lake covered as much as 80 square miles and was up to 1,500 feet deep.
What follows is the story of extraordinary events that happened in 1967 to U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command Missile Combat Officers and other enlisted personnel, missileers assigned at facilities in Montana to operate, maintain, and protect the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, an essential part of America's Cold War strategic nuclear deterrent.
Hang on and take a bird's eye look at the four different proposed landing sites for the Mars Science Lab! At a briefing yesterday, Dr. Richard Zurek presented a flyover video of the potential landing sites for the next Mars rover, set to launch in 2011. The video is now available, and Zurek narrates the excellent flyover footage of each site, created by images taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Enjoy the video, and find out a little more on each of the proposed sites below.
Mawrth Vallis: Location: Northern Plains, east of Pathfinder rover site (24.65° N, 340.10° E)
This is an ancient channel carved by catastrophic floods. Spectrometers on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have detected clay minerals which contain water, and may also preserve organic materials, so there is great interest in studying these deposits to understand past environments that could have supported life. Images from the MRO HiRise camera show hills with several layers and intriguing boulders.
UFO follows Air Force Jet for two hours ! ! project blue book listed the UFO as a passenger jet in the area the passenger jet in question was 600 miles away....
In some circles, patriotism has become a synonym for arrogant or jingoistic. Some people even use it as a political weapon; "Don't question my patriotism," they say. Yet, this Memorial Day, and every other day for that matter, we should remember that those who died for this country are the true patriots. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called Memorial Day, "our most respected holiday," and urged that "we not ponder with sad thoughts the passing of our heroes but rather ponder their legacy - the life they made possible for us by their commitment and pain."
DURHAM, N.H. - They came in the dead of the New Hampshire night in 1961, or so the story goes, about a dozen, short, hairless humanoids who snatched a terrified Portsmouth couple into a hovering spacecraft for a very close encounter of the medical examination kind.
Nothing would ever be the same for Betty and Barney Hill, a politically active, socially conscious couple who rocketed into the international spotlight with the first widely publicized tale of alien abduction.
Now, nearly a half-century later, thousands of items belonging to the Hills - from the torn dress Betty wore that night, to tapes of the Hills recounting their experience under hypnosis, to a papier-mache bust of the extraterrestrial generalissimo - are available for public study at a University of New Hampshire museum.
