read NASA smartly - clear show of desperation from PERISHING EARTH HUMANITY

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NASA's attitude and over-reaction towards existence of clue of what they think is water, shows us that their desperation from ruined and resource-exhausting planet Earth is very strong.

They announcement were done in such high profile as if they found walking Mars-man! The Russian and Chinese laughed off against NASA and poured tons of cold water.

What did NASA showed? Just geographical features of fluid flow marks, which could be ANY fluid. Could be oily liquid methane, propane, ethanol or liquid Ammonia, given the temperature on Mars is so damn low.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan
NASA did not find a sea nor lake nor pond, not even a puddle.

It is not explicitly stated by NASA, but if you read them smartly, it is too obviously that they are desperately looking for another colony planet to avoid TOTAL EXTINCTION with the ruined and squandered Earth.

We are very near the end of cycle of exhausting out of vital resources available on planet Earth, NASA knows, but they will not directly tell or highlight this most terrible bad news without first giving some remote hopes. Which is what this water hype is! Absolutely no government know how to face the chaos of global awareness of eminent TOTAL EXTINCTION.

This is something that is too hot to touch, and at the very least, they need a hoax to tranqilize or numb the inevitable global madness of TOTAL EXTINCTION.

Before finding these geographical features which suggested water, they completely had NOTHING, not even tranquilizer.

John Hopkins in his latest comments on universal BLACKHOLE call it a possible door of ESCAPE for humanity to extremely remote colonies, a sort of shortcut way to overcome distance and time.

 

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If man could by the slim chance managed to find and build a colony outside Earth, only a tiny fraction or ultra tiny number would be able to flee out to live. All the rest of vast majority will be abandoned here to face TOTAL EXTINCTION still.

Those who are powerful and capable enough to flee out in time, will PLUNDER from Earth as much as possible most precious resources, which they could flee along with. Leaving only tremendously huge quantity toxic rocket exhausts, and pollutants for the remaining suckers.

NEVER will they find sufficient resources to migrate the 8 billion or more people to any distanced colony. Don't even try to dream that!

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...helium-airships-Earth-s-searing-hot-twin.html


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Is Venus humanity's next home? NASA envisions a city of solar-powered helium airships above Earth's searing hot twin

By Josh Gardner for MailOnline
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The High Altitude Venus Operational Concept program would eventually send a manned mission to the atmosphere of Venus
Around 30 miles above the surface, Venus has temperatures and*atmospheric*pressure reminiscent of Earth's
A robot would first be sent to the Venus' atmosphere to test the waters -- a two-manned vehicle would follow
The project could one day pave the way toward a floating city above Venus
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Why weather the bone-chilling rocky surface of Mars when you could call the clouds of Venus' earth-like upper atmosphere home?*

That's the question posed by a NASA project that envisions a future where humans might live in solar-powered airships 31 miles above Earth's nearest neighbor.

Dubbed the*High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) the project would first send a robotic scout to gauge the lay of the land (or clouds) followed by a 30-day manned mission in a zeppelin-style helium ship.

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A furture in the clouds? A Venus exploration mission envisioned by NASA sees a future in which a permanent human habitat could float in the clouds above Earth's fiery neighbor
One day, a 'city' comprised of multiple space zeppelins would hover above Venus at a sweet spot where temperatures are around 167 degrees, according to IEEE.com.

That may sound hot, but at only 17 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than Earth's highest recorded temperature it's downright cozy compared to the -81F chills on the surface of Mars.

That's at 30 miles above Venus only, of course. Thanks to a greenhouse gas heavy atmosphere, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with surface temperatures reaching 863F.

Dale Arney, whose helped dream up the idea with Chris Jones at NASA's Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center in Virginia, told IEEE:

'The vast majority of people, when they hear the idea of going to Venus and exploring, think of the surface, where it's hot enough to melt lead and the pressure is the same as if you were almost a mile underneath the ocean

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Earth-like: The ambitious project would take a spacecraft carrying folded up helium airships (right) to the planet where surface temperatures reach nearly 900F. However, at 31 miles above Venus, scientists say the conditions are far more Earth-like
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Earth-like: The ambitious project would take a spacecraft carrying folded up helium airships (right) to the planet where surface temperatures reach nearly 900F. However, at 31 miles above Venus, scientists say the conditions are far more Earth-like
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Easuer than Mars? Scientists at NASA say that in some ways a 'landing' in the atmosphere of Venus would be easier than a surface landing on Mars
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Nearest neighbor: A manned mission could place two astronauts above he Venusian surface for 30-days after a 110-day trip to Earth's nearest neighbor
'I think that not many people have gone and looked at the relatively much more hospitable atmosphere and how you might tackle operating there for a while.'

Once implemented, HAVOC would begin with an unmanned mission to Venus in which a 100-foot-long robotic solar-powered helium airship would test the waters, so to speak, in the planet's atmosphere.

A gondola beneath would contain instruments with which to take measurements of temperature and other factors in preparation for a manned mission.*

If given the go-ahead, that manned mission would take two brave souls on a 110-day trip to Venus.

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They would spend a month inside a habitat in a gondola below the airship.

At the end of the 30-day mission, the astronauts would ascend back through the atmosphere in a vehicle brought with them for that purpose.

The trip back would take 300 days, putting the astronauts back on Earth after 440 days.

A very optimistic mission to Mars--which is 33.9 million miles from Earth at its closest versus 25 million for Venus--would have astronauts in space a minimum of 500 days for a stay of the same length.*

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‘Traditionally, say if you’re going to Mars, you talk about “entry, descent, and landing,” or EDL,’ said NASA's Dale Arney. 'Obviously, in our case, ‘landing’ would represent a significant failure of the mission, so instead we have ‘entry, descent, and inflation,’ or EDI.’

And that's no easy task.

Inside an ‘aeroshell’ the astronauts would enter Venus’ atmosphere at 4,500 miles per second. The aeroshell would decelerate to 450 meters per second and deploy a parachute.

The shell would then fall away, revealing the airship, which would unfurl and inflate while gently positioning itself at 31 miles above the fiery Venusian surface.

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The next step would be a year-long mission to Venus' atmosphere and then, in the more distant future, a permanent human settlement comprised of a floating city of airships.

Jones says the atmosphere above Venus is 'probably the most Earth-like environment that’s out there' and says its protection from the sun's radiation makes it almost preferable to Mars, which gets 40 times the amount of radiation as Earth.

In the Venus atmosphere, Jones says, you'd be exposed to 'about the same as if you were in Canada.'

For all the obstacles involved in a plan to get to Venus, stay a while and then return, Jones says it might actually be more practical than a trip to Mars.

'Venus has value as a destination in and of itself for exploration and colonization,

'There are things that you would need to do for a Mars mission, but we see a little easier path through Venus.'*

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Hwo to bet back: At the end of their mission, the astronauts would ascend back into space in an aircraft they brought along for that purpose
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How NASA Plans to Land Humans on Mars
Posted By Jason Davis

2014/11/20 10:04 UTC

Topics: private spaceflight, SLS, Orion, future technology, human spaceflight, International Space Station

On a warm, fall, southern afternoon, William Gerstenmaier stood in line at a lunch buffet on the campus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville. The associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration Directorate was smiling and shaking hands. You wouldn't know it to look at him, but just 16 hours earlier, Gerst—as he is referred to in the space community—phoned in to a nationally televised press conference to discuss the jaw-dropping explosion of an International Space Station-bound Antares rocket, launched by private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corporation.

It's not surprising that Gerst didn't seem particularly shaken. Since joining NASA in 1977, he's seen it all—"unflappable" comes to mind when describing his personality. On this day, at a luncheon held at the American Astronautical Society's Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, Gerst wasn't here to talk Antares. Stepping to the speaker's podium, he acknowledged the mishap with some oft-repeated "space is hard" comments, and quickly moved on to the bigger picture. Gerst was here to talk Mars, and NASA's plans for getting humans there in the 2030s.

On the surface, NASA's humans to Mars plans seem vague and disjointed. For instance, it's difficult to see how visiting a captured asteroid in lunar orbit fits into a bigger picture. But if you combine Gerst's speech with two days of symposium panels and a day of interviews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the full breadth of what the agency is trying to do begins to makes sense. There is indeed a plan to put humans on Mars. Vague? Yes. Hard to see? Absolutely. But that's because Gerst and NASA are playing the long game. And right now, it may be the only game they can play.


Boeing

Mars lander concept

Human exploration missions to Mars could require up to 20 tons of cargo on the surface.
Focusing on the short term

There are three big reasons NASA can't lay out a comprehensive Mars plan: flat budgets, a perilous political landscape, and the sheer scale of a 20-plus-years program. Thus far, NASA's most audacious human exploration program kicked off in 1961, when John F. Kennedy declared Americans would walk on the moon by the end of the decade. The nine-year program was a success, but it was bolstered by a strong political mandate and more than double the funding NASA receives today. The agency's budget peaked in 1966 at $43.5 billion (in 2014 dollars). Today, NASA gets about $18 billion. There's not much political will to go to Mars, and no indication that NASA's budget will change significantly. In fact, NASA doesn't even have a fiscal year 2015 budget yet, as it operates under a stopgap continuing resolution.

So NASA has less than half the money to execute a program that is twice as ambitious and will take twice as long. Nevertheless, they'll need a methodical, step-by-step approach like the one used in the 1960s with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Furthermore, officials like Gerstenmaier want to avoid Apollo-style one-and-done Mars visits. They'd rather see NASA establish a sustainable, long term presence in deep space. "The intent is not a single Mars mission," Gerstenmaier said, "but to put in place an infrastructure where we can eventually do repeat Mars missions."

To do this, Gerstenmaier and NASA focus on short-term missions they believe will develop the technologies and techniques needed to put humans on Mars. The current political and budgetary environment makes it impossible to say what a mid-30s Neil Armstrong-esque moment might look like. What NASA does know is that any Armstrong wannabes will need big rockets, advanced in-space propulsion, practice working in deep space, radiation protection, advanced habitats, and up to 20 tons of cargo waiting for them on Mars. With this in mind, seemingly unfocused programs like the Space Launch System and Asteroid Redirect Mission start to make a little more sense. While they may look like publicity stunts or knee-jerk reactions to politicians with constituents in space districts, they are actually NASA's way of getting the horse ready to pull the cart.

Beyond Earth orbit

NASA's journey to Mars begins in the place humans have continually lived since 2000: the International Space Station. Here, in low-Earth orbit, the agency is testing technologies that will be used on future Mars missions. One such advancement is 3D printing, which allows astronauts to swap out heavy toolkits for containers of reusable powder. These printers create specialized, one-off tools that can be grinded back out of existence. During an Oct. 27 panel discussion at NASA Marshall, Niki Werkeiser, the project manager for the station's 3-D printer, said NASA intends to scale up the technology so that lunar and Martian regolith can be used for feedstock. This would drastically reduce the amount of mass that has to be carried to a planetary surface. "We're looking at large-scale printers to be able to print things such as small habitat structures, radiation shielding, storage shelters and landing pads," she said.

Another low-Earth orbit technology demo happens next year, when private company Bigelow Aerospace is scheduled to connect an inflatable habitat to the station. Gerstenmaier said NASA will test how well the habitat shields occupants from radiation. Also in 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend a full year aboard ISS to further quantify how long-term weightlessness affects the human body.

The real proving ground for Mars, though, is near the moon. It is there that NASA plans to spend a large part of the 20s, learning how to live and work in lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit, or DRO. Lunar DRO is a highly stable orbit where objects can remain steady for about a hundred years. At a June 19 briefing, Asteroid Redirect Mission Program Director Michelle Gates said NASA is currently interested in a lunar DRO with an altitude of about 75,000 kilometers. That's almost a fifth of the distance between the Earth and moon—a unique orbit unlike any humans have ever visited.*

For NASA, lunar DRO is intriguing for several reasons. First of all, it offers a low delta-v transfer capability, meaning it's a place where spacecraft can enter and exit the Earth-moon system without using a lot of propellant. NASA plans to establish a permanent habitat here to serve as a waypoint for Mars-bound missions.*

Secondly, establishing a presence in lunar DRO is a challenging but attainable milestone. It requires NASA to master deep space rendezvous and construction techniques. Astronauts living here would be far more independent than they are in low-Earth orbit—but close enough to home to bail out in an emergency. Such a quick return would come courtesy of NASA's new Orion capsule, designed with these scenarios in mind. Orion is more robust than any capsule operating today, said Mark Geyer, the vehicle's program manager, speaking to reporters at NASA Marshall. "When you're at the moon, you're somewhere between five and eleven days away from home," he said. "Orion is built to support the crew in their seats, in their suits, in a depressurized cabin, for up to six days. So it won't be a nice ride, but they'll be safe. That's the kind of stuff you have to think about when you're a long way from home."


NASA

Orion promotional poster

The Asteroid Redirect Mission

Sometime around 2019, NASA intends to launch a solar-electric powered robotic spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid. The Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, entails the spacecraft either snagging an entire 10-meter asteroid, or plucking a boulder off a larger asteroid. In either scenario, the captured asteroid will be hauled back to lunar DRO. Astronauts will visit the asteroid and collect samples for return to Earth.

NASA has, to put it mildly, struggled to sell the benefits of ARM to the space community and public. ARM has been marketed as a science mission, and a chance to learn how we might redirect a dangerous Earth-bound asteroid. But in reality, the scientific benefits are outweighed by technical gains, a fact readily admitted by Gerstenmaier, who puts the science benefits of ARM in gray italics on his presentation slides. "I put them in italics because the science community is kind of constrained. If they were going to do these kind of objectives on their own, they would probably do it differently," he said.

The technical benefit of ARM is that it allows NASA to perform a large-scale test of Solar Electric Propulsion, or SEP. SEP works by using solar-generated electricity to strip electrons off a gas, creating ions. These ions are accelerated out of the spacecraft, creating low-thrust, continuous propulsion. Large-scale SEP is a big part of NASA's Mars plans. Because an interplanetary journey will expose the crew to high levels of harmful radiation, NASA wants the trip to be as short as possible. That means using high-powered chemical rockets, unless a yet-to-be-developed technology like nuclear thermal propulsion is ready by the 30s.*

 

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火星上的水是“卤水” 网友：卤水豆腐还是卤鸡翅？
2015-09-29 00:56 凤凰新闻客户端 125
NASA上周神神秘秘地暗示自己在火星上有了大发现，其实就是在刚刚发表在《自然·地球科学》上的一篇论文，研究者称他们了现今火星上存在液态水的证据。是的，是现今的液态水，不是很久以前的水，也不是冰（后两者我们早知道了）。
可惜，这水不能直接喝：这是“卤水”（编者注：矿化很强的水。常用以提取某些化工原料，如食盐、碘、硼、溴等），还不能用来卤蛋。

新的研究结果表明，RSL（图中暗色细纹）的形成源于流淌在火星表面的卤水。NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
对此网友纷纷展开脑洞，猜想NASA下次会发现什么，以下是网友评论精选：
标题党派
@三思小新：不是发现火星有液态水吧？是发现火星有液态水存在的“证据”。
@胖头人面兽大头：老是想搞个大新闻
@AJ_阿杰：NASA大标题党，刷存在感是吧
@少年我是你密码姐：怕经费被砍，时不常要出来刷一下存在感
@拇姬：我们承认《火星救援》（编者注：一部NASA有支持的电影）很好看就是了。。
吃货派
@天然卷卷卷：卤水……第一反应火星可以吃卤菜了
@peter0490：看来火星人爱吃豆腐