Space Exploration

1. RECENT DEVELOPMENT
IN THE FIELD OF SPACE
EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL

3. ALMOST ALL WATER ON MARS TODAY EXISTS AS ICE, THOUGH IT ALSO EXISTS IN
SMALL QUANTITIES AS VAPOR IN THE ATMOSPHERE. WHAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE
LOW-VOLUME LIQUID BRINES IN SHALLOW MARTIAN SOIL, ALSO
CALLED RECURRENT SLOPE LINEAE, MAY BE GRAINS OF FLOWING SAND AND
DUST SLIPPING DOWNHILL TO MAKE DARK STREAKS.THE ONLY PLACE WHERE
WATER ICE IS VISIBLE AT THE SURFACE IS AT THE NORTH POLAR ICE
CAP.ABUNDANT WATER ICE IS ALSO PRESENT BENEATH THE PERMANENT CARBON
DIOXIDE ICE CAP AT THE MARTIAN SOUTH POLE AND IN THE SHALLOW
SUBSURFACE AT MORE TEMPERATE CONDITIONS. MORE THAN MILLION KM3 OF
ICE HAVE BEEN DETECTED AT OR NEAR THE SURFACE OF MARS, ENOUGH TO
COVER THE WHOLE PLANET TO A DEPTH OF 35 METERS (115 FT). EVEN MORE ICE
IS LIKELY TO BE LOCKED AWAY IN THE DEEP SUBSURFACE.[

4. Mars after much speculation, NASA finally confirmed last
month that the Martian surface of Mars does indeed have
liquid water running on it, which potentially brings new
hope for the discovery of life on the red planet.
The liquid water was discovered to be running down the ridges
of canyons and crater walls during the planet’s summer months,
with it having left visible streaks down their slopes.However,
the actual origin of the water remains a mystery, with some
suggestions being that it is originating from vast underground
salty aquifers, Martian ice or even condensation from the
planet’s thin atmosphere.

6. IN JULY, NASA DISCOVERED A NEW PLANET WITH STRIKINGLY
SIMILAR FEATURES TO OUR OWN. IT WAS DUBBED, RATHER
UNIMAGINATIVELY, EARTH 2.0, AND ITS DISCOVERY SENT
EVERYONE’S IMAGINATIONS WILD.KEPLER-452B, AS THE
PLANET HAS BEEN LABELLED BY THE AGENCY, IS IN A SOLAR
SYSTEM VERY SIMILAR TO OUR OWN AND IS THE RIGHT
DISTANCE FROM ITS STAR TO POTENTIALLY BE HABITABLE.
THE PLANET IS 6BN YEARS OLD, 60PC LARGER THAN EARTH
AND RECEIVES 10PC MORE ENERGY FROM ITS STAR, WHICH IS
1.5BN YEARS OLDER AND 20PC BRIGHTER THAN OUR SUN,
THOUGH HAS THE SAME TEMPERATURE.

8. PLANETS BEYOND
PLUTO

9. Way back in January, scientists found two planets, potentially as
big as Earth, lurking beyond Pluto in our solar system, in a
discovery that “may be truly revolutionary for astronomy”.The
discovery involved measurements of rocks located well beyond
Neptune. A belt of space rocks, known as ‘extreme trans-Neptunian
objects’ (ETNO), show unexpected symmetry, according to
scientists who have been scouring the solar system looking for
everything and anything.
By analysing the effects of what’s called the Kozai mechanism – which deals with
large objects having smaller ones, much further away, orbiting around its
gravitational pull – the researchers have thus theorised that just beyond what
they can see could well be some more planets.

10. KRISH & ANANYA
ARE GETTING MARRIED
CITY HALL
GROUP
PAMELA JOSEPHINE FAMOSO ANIÑON
MAKI YUUKI JOESTAR
J CIE ANDRADE
VELRITCH RAMOS