Recent content by Mike_Moody

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    NASA's Perseverance is exploring Mars! Come watch updates with us!

    I would like to make a general observation about Perseverance. This is a mission where they are actually supposed to be checking for fossils. In the past pictures have been made of very strange rock formations that looked like various things including bones. NASA never really responded to...
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    Interstellar Asteroid Mission

    A recent study that appeared in my news app stated that a team of astronomers had found a group of asteroids orbiting out of the plane of the ecliptic. The astronomers concluded that this group of asteroids had been captured early in our star's history from another star. One of them was an...
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    In order to reach nearby suns, what is the limit to the speed we can accelerate a probe using gravitational assists or other means?

    I would think that it would be possible to obtain a velocity of 200 to 300 km per second just using a space rated nuclear fission drive. We are close to the ability to build such a space power plant now. By the time we are able to harvest sufficient liquid hydrogen from, say, Ceres, we ought...
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    Mars Soil

    I share the interest in the problem with the Mole. I am worried about what this means for other areas. However, they can drill into rock without problem. But that is why I wanted to write here. I would like to be one of the say that I think NASA has found something when they drilled the Glen...
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    Mars Soil