http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/ Religious and Spiritual News en leonid@spirithit.com admin@spirithit.com Copyright © 2005 SpiritHit.com hourly 2 2005-04-18T15:40:00-05:00 http://news.spirithit.com/images/rss/spirithit.gif http://news.spirithit.com/ 137 24 NASA has a new Vision for Space Exploration: in the decades ahead, humans will land on Mars and explore the red planet. Brief visits will lead to longer stays and, maybe one day, to colonies. First,… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/en_route_to_mars_the_moon/ 2005-04-18T15:40:00-05:00 The discovery of a frozen sea close to the equator of Mars has brought the possibility of finding life on Mars one step closer. This is the first evidence of there having been recent liquid water… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/frozen_sea_of_water_discovered_on_mars/ 2005-02-23T03:15:00-05:00 “Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth’s rotation, from seasonal weather down to driving a car,” said Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/nasa_details_earthquake_effects_on_the_earth/ 2005-02-09T22:22:01-05:00 European space scientists have strongly recommended a mission equipped with a Rover as the next scientific mission to Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Aurora programme of planetary… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/europe_goes_back_to_mars/ 2005-04-18T15:08:01-05:00 Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/explosions_in_space_may_have_initiated_ancient_extinction_on_earth/ 2005-04-18T14:24:00-05:00 Since the beginning of astronomical observation, science has been viewing light on a curve. In a galaxy filled with thousands of eclipsing binary stars, we've refined our skills by measuring… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/new_method_could_detect_alien_space_stations/ 2005-04-18T14:08:03-05:00 The chances of finding life somewhere else in the Universe depends on how many planets are capable of supporting life. Well, according to new calculations by astronomers at Open University, as… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/how_many_habitable_planets_could_be_out_there/ 2005-04-18T00:40:01-05:00 In the last month planet hunters have uncovered 12 new worlds orbiting other stars, bringing the total planet count to 145. Two European planet hunting teams have discovered 6 gas giants as part… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/a_dozen_new_planets_discovered/ 2005-02-20T16:04:01-05:00 Astronomers have detected the brightest explosion ever witnessed in the heavens. It was a flash of light from across our galaxy so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth's… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/brightest_cosmic_explosion_ever_recorded/ 2005-02-20T15:32:02-05:00 Injecting synthetic "super" greenhouse gases into the Martian atmosphere could raise the planet's temperature enough to melt its polar ice caps and create conditions suitable for… http://news.spirithit.com/index/cosmos/more/using_global_warming_for_life_on_mars/ 2005-02-09T21:42:01-05:00