[meteorite-list] Rosetta's MIRO Instrument Maps Comet Water

2015-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4632 Rosetta's MIRO Instrument Maps Comet Water Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 19, 2015 Since last September, scientists using NASA's Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have generated m

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: June 15-19, 2015

2015-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES June 15-19, 2015 o Terra Sabaea - False Color (15 June 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150615a o Terra Cimmeria - False Color (16 June 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150616a o Huygens Crater - False Color (17 June 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150617

Re: [meteorite-list] Methane detected in meteorites adds fuel tolife on Mars theories

2015-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list
Bob, List, The table may be set, but the diners are not in evidence. Early Mars may have had any amount of methane, but the analysis of Martian rocks (in the form of Martian meteorites), shows a rough equality of the Carbon-13 isotope with the Carbon-12 isotope. Life has a preferential appe

Re: [meteorite-list] Methane detected in meteorites adds fuel to life on Mars theories

2015-06-19 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Here is a link to the actual abstract/paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150616/ncomms8399/full/ncomms8399.html "Evidence for methane in Martian meteorites" - by Nigel J. F. Blamey, John Parnell, Sean McMahon, Darren F. Mark, Tim Tomkinson, Martin Lee, Jared S

[meteorite-list] New Study Favors Cold, Icy Mars

2015-06-19 Thread Paul H. via Meteorite-list
New Study Favors Cold, Icy Mars American Geophysiical Union, June 15, 2015 https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-study-favors-cold-icy-early-mars/ http://phys.org/news/2015-06-favors-cold-icy-early-mars.html The paper is: Wordsworth, R. D., L. Kerber, R. T. Pierrehumbert, F. Forget, and J. W. H

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-06-19 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Kosice Contributed by: Zsolt Kereszty http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=06/19/2015 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-a