18 thousand. dollars lying in bed – Focus

Who would not like to earn 18 thousand. dollars, not moving out of bed? This may sound fabulous, but it turns out that lying can be quite a challenge.

Last year, NASA adopted the 50 people who have come forward to participate in just such a project. Participants have to spend in a horizontal position the entire 70 days, and they could not move a step, even to the toilet. Everything, of course, for the sake of science. The purpose of the American Space Agency and CTF-70 project was to study how the human body behaves in space. The results will be used especially when planning long-term space missions, including – a trip to Mars.

One of the participants Iwanicki Drew talked about his experiences in an interview with NextShark service. Iwanicki admitted that he first heard about the project of NASA in 2013. He decided to apply a little bit of boredom and at the end of 2014. was chosen from among 25 thousand. candidates.

In an interview Iwanicki said that his condition was monitored around the clock. During this time he was on a strict diet that would keep his weight at a constant level of 90 kg. The man was not allowed to move or turn his head to make eye contact with him visiting partner. All physiological functions, including excretion for 70 days he had to take lying down. The man experienced when lying severe headaches and spine.

– I’ve never been in the hospital, so lying in bed for so long I was really foreign. The hardest part was that I was not even able to sit. Physically it was really painful. The human body is not designed to stay still for such a long time – said Drew Iwanicki.

Strict restrictions also affected hours of sleep. The lights extinguished at. 22 and lit at 6 am. Naps during the day were excluded, which turned out to be for many people the hardest. At last all day lying in bed! The only exception was the ability to straighten elbows for 30 minutes while eating. The whole time the man had at his disposal a computer and books.

After the deduction of tax Iwanicki earned approx. 13 thousand. dollars. Was it worth it? Male stresses that despite all the negative feelings will never regret his participation in the project of NASA. “Previously always I thought that the grass on the other side is greener. This experience definitely helped me appreciate everything I have and my normal life” – summed up Drew Iwanicki.

18 thousand. dollars lying in bed – Focus

Who would not like to earn 18 thousand. dollars, not moving out of bed? This may sound fabulous, but it turns out that lying can be quite a challenge.

Last year, NASA adopted the 50 people who have come forward to participate in just such a project. Participants have to spend in a horizontal position the entire 70 days, and they could not move a step, even to the toilet. Everything, of course, for the sake of science. The purpose of the American Space Agency and CTF-70 project was to study how the human body behaves in space. The results will be used especially when planning long-term space missions, including – a trip to Mars.

One of the participants Iwanicki Drew talked about his experiences in an interview with NextShark service. Iwanicki admitted that he first heard about the project of NASA in 2013. He decided to apply a little bit of boredom and at the end of 2014. was chosen from among 25 thousand. candidates.

In an interview Iwanicki said that his condition was monitored around the clock. During this time he was on a strict diet that would keep his weight at a constant level of 90 kg. The man was not allowed to move or turn his head to make eye contact with him visiting partner. All physiological functions, including excretion for 70 days he had to take lying down. The man experienced when lying severe headaches and spine.

– I’ve never been in the hospital, so lying in bed for so long I was really foreign. The hardest part was that I was not even able to sit. Physically it was really painful. The human body is not designed to stay still for such a long time – said Drew Iwanicki.

Strict restrictions also affected hours of sleep. The lights extinguished at. 22 and lit at 6 am. Naps during the day were excluded, which turned out to be for many people the hardest. At last all day lying in bed! The only exception was the ability to straighten elbows for 30 minutes while eating. The whole time the man had at his disposal a computer and books.

After the deduction of tax Iwanicki earned approx. 13 thousand. dollars. Was it worth it? Male stresses that despite all the negative feelings will never regret his participation in the project of NASA. “Previously always I thought that the grass on the other side is greener. This experience definitely helped me appreciate everything I have and my normal life” – summed up Drew Iwanicki.

Water on Mars – Astro News

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On the surface of Mars discovered traces indicating the presence of liquid water – and not in the distant past of the planet, but right now! In the light of the latest research, published by NASA, the water is responsible for the formation of mysterious dark structures on the Red Planet. The discovery caused a lot of excitement and forced a series of questions – including about the possibility of life …

Article written by Zofia Kaczmarek

The new results Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence so far on the periodic flow of liquid water on Mars today. Using a spectrometer probes, researchers have found traces of hydrated minerals on the slopes, which are seen mysterious lines. The dark streaks grow and recede with time. Darken and flow down steep slopes during the warmer seasons, then fade during colder. They appear in several places on Mars when temperatures exceed -23 degrees Celsius, and pass away when he cools down.
These flows are known as RSL (recurring slope rope – recurring lines on slopes). Often they described their possible association with water in a liquid state. New discoveries hydrated salt on the slopes indicate what the character might have a connection. Hydrated salts would lower the freezing point of the liquid – like salt on the roads Earth makes ice and snow melt faster. Scientists say that water is likely to flow near the surface; seeps through the ground its enough to explain its blackening.
We were hydrated salt, only when seasonally visible objects are widest, suggesting that either the dark streaks or process that forms it, is a source of hydration. In both cases, the detection of hydrated salt on the slopes means that water plays a key role in the formation of streaking.
The first time these puzzling objects observed in 2010, using images from the telescope’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) located on the probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. HiRISE observations have documented the presence of the RSL in dozens of places on Mars. New research has linked them with mapping of minerals made by the instrument crisma (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) with the same probe.

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The spectrometer observations reveal traces of hydrated salt in many locations of the RSL, but only where dark objects were relatively broad. When the researchers looked at the same places, while RSL were not as extensive, they did not detect hydrated salt.
According to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in spectral characteristics indicating hydrated minerals called perchlorates. Salts characteristics that are most consistent with the results obtained, the magnesium perchlorate, chlorate, magnesium and sodium perchlorate. On Earth, perchlorates occur naturally occurring in the deserts, and some of their types can be used as rocket fuel.
Perchlorate were already observed on Mars. Phoenix lander and rover Curiosity found them in the soil of the planet, and some scientists believe that their traces also registered the Viking missions in the 70s However, this study has detected perchlorate, this time in a hydrated form, in areas other than those explored by landers. It is also the first time that the identification of perchlorate from the orbit of Mars. MRO explores Mars since 2006 with six scientific instruments.

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The new results are further proof that mysterious lines to darken Martian slopes, which were first seen again five years ago, it was actually water.
When most people talk about water on Mars, usually they ask for water present in the past or frozen. Now we know that hidden behind something more. This is the first spectral detection, which clearly supports the hypothesis forming the RSL by liquid wodę.Odkrycie is the latest of many breakthroughs made by NASA’s Mars missions.
It took many spacecraft in a few years to solve this mystery, and now we know, that there is liquid water on the surface of the cold desert planet.

Added: Editors AstroNETu – 2015-09-30 19: 08: 14 + 02
has updated: Editors AstroNETu – 2015-09-30 19: 09: 05 + 02

Source: NASA – American Space Agency

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myPhone Fun 4 – cheap smartphone with Android 5.1 Lollipop – Virtual Poland

 
  myPhone Fun 4 is equipped with a 4-core processor Quad Core Cortex-A7
 about takowaniu 1.3 GHz, as well as 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 854×480 pixels, 1 GB of RAM.

 
 
 The smartphone has a rear camera with a resolution of 5.0 megapixels with autofocus and LED flash and front – VGA. Fun 4 has the ability to connect to a 3G network, and support for two SIM cards simultaneously. Equipped also with Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and Wi-Fi module.

 
 
 This simple smartphone is also equipped with a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 1800 mAh. For storing pictures, applications and documents, corresponds to 8GB internal memory
 expandable up to 32 GB (microSD card).
 The new model will be available in 4 colors (white, yellow, pink, blue) at a price of 320 zł.
 
 

Google officially unveils new smartphone – Nexus 6P and 5X – FrazPC.pl

 According to the plan Google at your conference today presented the new smartphones with family Nexus . As suggested earlier reports, the US company put in this year, as Apple and Samsung, two flagship models. For high-end smartphone, or Nexus 6P , equivalent to China’s Huawei, while long-term partner American giant, which LG has prepared a smaller Nexus 5X, which is directly placed below the shelf.

 Let’s start with the latter, which is the third in a row Nexus developed by LG. It has a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS display (423 ppi), made with In-Cell Touch, which allows screen responds quickly to the touch, and presented images are sharp and clearly visible even in bright outside light. His heart is a 6-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 808, which is known even from the Korean manufacturer’s flagship model, which LG G4. Nexus 5X comes in addition to an increasingly widespread in recent USB-C, which means that both data transfer and battery charging is done extremely quickly (10 minutes of charging enough is another 4 hours) .

 As for the cameras, then back we find 12.3 MP unit, while the front 5 MP. In the first case, we can count on a pixel size of 1.55 microns, and the pixels array at the front have a size of 1.4 microns – make is that images are bright and clear, even if they were made under unfavorable lighting conditions. There were also options here to record video in slow motion and in the 4K resolution.

 LG has not forgotten, of course, about the fingerprint reader, which is the last cry of fashion on the smartphone market. Nexus Imprint, because as it is called, is placed on the rear panel, and the Americans will be able to use it not only for enabling and unlocking the smartphone, but also the service Android Pay .

 The smartphone is available from today in the pre in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and Korea. Note, however, that Poland is one of the first countries where LG introduces the Nexus 5X for sale, which will take place already at the end of October. In the first instance will be available on the open market (in white and black color) and the operator of the Play network, and then T-Mobile and with new operators.

 The planned price on the open market will be ok.1999 PLN for the 32GB version.

 

  Basic technical data:

 

 Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon ™ 808 1.8 GHz

 Operating System: Android 6.0 Marshmallow

 Display: IPS 5.2-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080/423 pixels per inch)

 Memory: 2 GB of RAM LPDDR3 / 16 or 32GB of eMMC ROM

 Rear camera: the 12.3 MP lens with f2.0; Front: 5 MP lens with f2.0

 Battery: 2700 mAh (built-in)

 Dimensions: 147 x 72.6 x 7,9mm

 Weight: 136 g

 Mobile network LTE-A Cat. 6

 Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a, b, g, n, ac / Bluetooth 4.2 / NFC / USB-C

 Colors: Black / white / blue

 Others: Shooting movies 4K / two lamps LED / laser autofocus / fingerprint reader

 

 The second of the presented models, ie Huawei Nexus 6P is a device that must be included in the category phabletów. However, despite its name, the handset is equipped with a 5.7-inch display, and the first Chinese Nexus boast may also be metal housing unibody (aluminum alloy used in aircraft) with a thickness of only 7.3 mm (3 mm less than the Nexus 6 from Motorola).

 Just like its predecessor maintains a panel of AMOLED with a resolution qHD, as well as the front stereo speakers. In this case, under the hood hides a chart-topping chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon or 810, which is supported by 3 GB of RAM. When it comes to internal storage options, the available are: 32/64/128 GB (unfortunately without the possibility of extension).

 The camera back is virtually the same as the LG model, which means 12.3 MP unit with f2.0 lens, dual LED flash and autofocus laser – got a front webcam to upgrade to 8 MP (lens brightness F2,4).

 The second Nexus also received papillary reader on the rear panel, and it is worth noting that this is natively supported by the new Android. Nexus 6P can also boast far greater battery capacity of 3450 mAh, and the use of USB connectors type C allows for a quick recharge equipment (10 minutes = 7 hours of work).

 Huawei will cost the Nexus 6P 650/700/800 EUR respectively 32/64/128 GB variant, and like LG model will go on sale next month.

 

  Basic technical data:

 

 Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon ™ 810

 Operating System: Android 6.0 Marshmallow

 Display: IPS 5.7-inch qHD (2560×1440 / 518 pixels per inch)

 Memory: 3 GB of RAM LPDDR3 / 32, 64 or 32 GB eMMC ROM

 Rear camera: the 12.3 MP lens with f2.0; Front: 8 MP lens with a brightness F2,4

 Battery: 3450mAh (built-in)

 Dimensions: 159.4 x 77.8 x 7.3mm

 Weight: 178 g

 Mobile network LTE-A

 Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a, b, g, n, ac / Bluetooth 4.2 / NFC / USB-C

 Colours: Aluminum, Graphite, Frost and Gold (only in Japan)

 Others: Shooting movies 4K / two lamps LED / laser autofocus / fingerprint reader

Here he is – get to know the Nexus 5X from LG – Spider’s Web

behind us Google press conference, which presented two newest line of Nexus smartphones. The first, developed by LG Nexus 5X, as predicted is a device equipped with a 5.2-inch display, belonging to medium-high price range. Its specification should be sufficient for all the tasks, but may disappoint the biggest enthusiasts.

Read also: This is not a worthy successor to the original . Nexus 5X – first impressions Spider’s Web

Case

Presented today smartphone will be equipped with a plastic cover in three different colors – black, mint and white. The dimensions of the device are 147 x 72.6 x 7.9 mm and its weight is 136 mm. It is therefore a slightly larger equipment and minimally gently even lighter than the Samsung Galaxy S6. In this regard it is therefore bad. Smartphone LG should be felt in the hand, but also convenient in everyday use.

Display

LG Nexus 5X is equipped with a 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels . These parameters translate to the density pixels at 424 ppi. The display is covered with glass Corning Gorilla Glass 3, which will greatly increase the strength of the device. In addition, glass is resistant to leaving for the fingerprints and smudges. This is thanks oleophobic surface that repels liquids and dirt.

Many people may not like to display parameters. In the end, the market can be found even devices with screens with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. That’s true, but now these parameters are useless. Displays with high resolution smartphones can be useful only in virtual reality applications, but even the parameters mentioned above screen will be insufficient to achieve perfectly sharp in glasses / goggles virtual reality. To be noted in the materials VR significant difference relative to the FullHD display, it is necessary to apply the screen with a resolution of 4K.

Unfortunately smartphones on the market today do not have the performance of the GPU (in this case a fast Adreno 418) enables comfortable use them. This is evidenced even Sony Xperia Z5, in which a new, more detailed display is only used to play multimedia content. In other applications, the screen works in 4 times lower resolution FullHD. Sony opted for this solution because the application interface 4K throughout the software would lead to a huge drop in productivity and working time smartphone without charge.

Google and LG are aware of this and therefore decided to make use of cheaper, more practical, less łasego energy and providing higher performance solutions. You can see the hand of LG, LG G4 that spending has proven that he can make smartphones in a reasonable manner, without counting on the trance users the same magic digits. For this reason, I believe that the display of the new Nexus is sufficient, and because of the smaller loss of efficiency and power, even better than the screens of 2K.

processor

Agreement used in the South Korean equipment is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, which is provided with a total of six cores. Two of them are fast Cortex-A57, while four are energy-efficient Cortex-A53. A layperson would think that a little. In the end, the market is many circuits 8-core, they occur even in smartphones costing less than 1000 zł.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of them apply only energy-efficient cores, making real yield smartphone does not grow noticeably compared to the quad models. Excuses also requires the superiority of LG Nexus 5X on smartphones such as the HTC One M9, the LG G Flex 2 and Sony Xperia Z3 +. In the end, they are equipped with efficient, eight-core chips Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which are two times more powerful Cortex-A57 than the processor used in the LG Nexus 5X.

It turns out that Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 in the housing HTC One M9 heats up so much that HTC has decided to issue a software update. It solved the problem in a truly astonishing way. Namely, it turns off the strongest cores, making it almost all the time acting only energy-efficient cores. More efficient part of the work only in test applications.

It was the perfect solution for HTC. On the one hand it can boast that their devices are used in the absolute best components and it is true. On the other hand, their equipment is already overheating. And that the equipment uses only slightly more than half of its potential and is therefore more expensive than it should? About the HTC forgets. With the bigger problem facing the Sony Xperia Z 3 +, which does not survive until the appropriate update. Therefore, on a sunny day can be itself off.

In the case of the LG Nexus 5X will not be this problem. Even after a long association with LG G4 know that the system works steadily, but the phone does not overheat even under adverse conditions, and its efficiency and so remains large enough that 99% of users will not notice the use of the weaker components. Since that system, applications and games run on LG G4 run absolutely smoothly, the presence of a weaker system can be seen only in the benchmarks. This should also be the new Nexus.

Memory

The amount of memory used in the new Nexus may give rise to controversy. Enthusiasts complain that it is the only 2GB (Type LPDDR3), while the latest models are already 3-4 GB of memory. Does this mean that the LG Nexus 5X is standing out from the competition? Yes, at least in theory. However, in practice this may mean that Android will be better optimized than ever before. In the end, Nexus is Google’s flagship device, and the company from Mountain View does not allow himself to create equipment that would work correctly with the new versions of Android over the next few years. This is great news for owners of previous Nexus.

surprised that the LG Nexus 5X is available in two versions capacitive. The first of these has only 16 GB of flash memory, while another 32 GB. Of course, Nexus does not have a slot for a microSD card, so their capacity can not be increased. Capacities may suffice most users, but if someone wants to exploit the full potential of your smartphone and use it among other things to record video in 4K resolution via built-in camera, quickly find that the memory is definitely not enough.

Built-in cameras

LG Nexus 5X is to have two cameras. The front features a resolution at 5 Megapixels and a brightness of f / 2.0. In turn, the front is equipped with a sensor resolution of 12.3 MP, and its optical brightness is f / 2.0. Even after that you can infer that the camera is standing out from the models built in the Samsung Galaxy S6 and LG G4, but still it could be pretty good photographic smartphone. In addition, the camera has a built-in laser autofocus, two LEDs flash and video recording 4K.

Standards of communications and sensors

LG Nexus 5X has a standard set of ports and sockets. Used here only output minijack and USB-C, which replaced the hitherto used microUSB port. On the other hand under the flap is a card slot nanosim. A little hurt no function DualSIM, that would enable the two numbers simultaneously. Smartphone can not be criticized for absolutely nothing when it comes to wireless communications standards supported. Used here include the latest WiFi standard ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, and NFC.

On the other hand, built-in sensors that pedometer, accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, magnetic sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and on the back of the reader Imprint Nexus fingerprint, which is useful when using contactless payments. It is a set of currently used sensors, we can say that there is no shortage absolutely anything that he needed.

Battery

LG Nexus 5X is equipped with a built-in rechargeable battery with a capacity of 2700 mAh, which is quite long for a 5.2-inch model. This combined with a reasonable specification means that you will had a long battery life. The phone has also support fast charging using Qualcomm’s technology Quick Charge 2.0. Unfortunately, it does not support wireless charging

Software

On the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which will power the new Nexus commented Charles Kopańko that tests a development version of the system for several months in the previous Nexus 5, also from LG.

Summary

LG Nexus 5X is a very interesting device, which you may not have the specifications of the highest quality, but should do the vast majority of users. It has a pretty fast processor that does not have problems with overheating and all necessary sensors and communication standards. The only disappointment may be a small amount of flash memory and RAM. This last parameter should cheer us, however, because it means that future versions of Android will run on outfits perfectly equipped with just 2GB of RAM, which is plenty on the market. I myself am pleased with the specifications of the LG Nexus 5X and were it not that I already have the model LG G4, I would seriously consider buying this smartphone. In the end, this is not done for pure Android?

Read also: This is not a worthy successor to the original. Nexus 5X – first impressions Spider’s Web

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Google presents the LG Nexus Nexus 5X and Huawei 6P. Great camera, large screens – Gazeta.pl

Google unveiled new smartphones Nexus series. The models differ in specification, each of them is, however, quite a strong position in its class.

LG Nexus 5X

The smartphone, according to Google, it stands out a screen diagonal of 5.2 inches (Full HD 423 ppi) made in technology, In-Cell Touch by which responds to touch very quickly. The device is equipped with a processor of the new series – Snapdragon 808. Equipped with 2GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of data, camera with a resolution of 12.3 megapixels (F2.0) with a laser autofocus, a second camera (5MP, F2.0), modules NFC, Bluetooth 4.2 and USB-C. Thanks to him within 10 minutes we are able to charge your phone so that he could work a few hours.

Huawei Nexus 6P – a large, thin, metal … and the screen

Fig. Huawei / Google

The larger the smartphone has a screen size of 5.7 inches (AMOLED). The resolution is also higher – is 2560×1440 (518 ppi). Noteworthy battery with a capacity of 3450mAh. The 6P find Snapdragon processor 810 v.2.1.

Nexus 6P housing is made of anodized aluminum.

Link USB type-C allows for 10 minutes to charge the phone to operate 7 hours.

Better camera

6P Nexus and Nexus 5X is equipped with a camera that, according to the manufacturer, works well in low light conditions. This is achieved by use of a larger pixel size (1.55 m), which allows the sensor to capture more light.

The device also has the ability to record video in 4K and time-lapse movies.

The front camera has a higher resolution than the 5x – is 8MP. The camera supports Google HDR +, which has a permit to capture great quality selfie.

Fingerprint Reader

Nexus 6P, like the Nexus 5X is equipped with a fingerprint reader. It is located on the back cover. According to the manufacturer allows you to unlock your phone in a very quick way – in order to work just a few hundred milliseconds.

During the presentation, Google announced that the brightness of the camera allows you to comfortably take pictures even in very poor lighting conditions. According to the manufacturer Nexus off much better in comparison with smartphones competition.

photo. Google

Android Marshmallow goes to the Nexus, not only the newest

Both smartphones run under the control of the latest Android version Marshmallow . The system includes several major new features such as Google on Top – function allows for easy search on Google information that reaches us through other applications such as WhatsApp. It’s like the ability to highlight any words while using Chrome. We can then search the Google information associated with the highlighted word.

Android Marshmallow also supports the better voice commands.

Nexus marshmallow will go to device users in the series Nexus early next week.

When you do not use the battery rests

Another important new feature is the increased battery life when you are not using a smartphone. Screen off Marshmallow uses 30% less energy.

Availability, prices

Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P can be ordered today in the US, Ireland and Japan.

5X Nexus will cost $ 379, 6P – $ 499. Phones will be delivered ordering in October.

Google informed us officially that the LG Nexus 5X will go to the Polish quickly:

Poland is one of the first countries in which LG introduces the Nexus 5X for sale already the end of October in the first place on the open market (in white and black color) and the operator of the Play network, and then T-Mobile and with new operators.

​​ Fig. Luke Józefowicz

Poland price at the LG Nexus 5X is 1999 zł. The smartphone will go first to T-Mobile, Play, and online stores.

Nexus 6P will go to the Polish in the last quarter of this year.

Bonus

Google offers 90 day access to Google Play Music. Smartphones LG Nexus Nexus 5X and Huawei 6P will work in a virtual network called Project Fi.

Are you looking for Google products? Visit the Google strore.

Astronomer: perhaps in the water on Mars are living organisms – Polish Radio

                             At a specially convened press conference, NASA announced that it has evidence that Mars – where the average temperature is -63 degrees C, periodically water flows.
                         

Recent analysis of data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) give the strongest so far is evidence that liquid water periodically occur on Mars as today, and not only in the distant geological past. Using a spectrometer imager working on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have registered a signature presence of hydrated minerals on the slopes, which are visible mysterious dark bands.

The mysterious structure called “recurring slope lineae” (RSL), which can be translated as “periodically recurring lines on the slopes.” We have already assumed that they could have a relationship with the water.

Dark bandwidth increase and decrease with the passage of time. During the warm season they darken and extend downward, while in colder periods of weakening. You can be seen in several places on Mars where the temperature reaches minus 23 degrees Celsius. When it is colder, disappearing from these places.

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The discovery on the slopes of the presence of hydrated salt process, which helped to explain. Hydrated salts lower the temperature of the freezing point of water, just as it does on Earth (for example shav- road salt causes the snow to melt ice faster).

– Hydrated salts occur only at times when seasonal structures were widest, suggesting that either the same dark bands or a process of forming them is a source of hydration. In both cases, the detection of hydrated salt on the hillsides means that water plays an important role in the formation of dark structures – said at Monday’s press conference Lujendra Ojha at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA). It is the main author of publications on the subject, which simultaneously appeared in the scientific journal “Nature Geoscience” .

The research team interprets the lines hydrated salt as suitable for hydrated minerals called perchlorate (Perchlorate is a salt of perchloric acid). The most fit here blend of magnesium perchlorate, chlorate, magnesium and sodium perchlorate.

Perchlorate was detected earlier on Mars, including in the workplace Phoenix lander and rover Curiosity. Some scientists believe that they also detected landers Viking 1 and Viking 2 On Earth naturally occurring perchlorate are concentrated in the deserts. Some of their kinds can be used as rocket fuel.

Source: CNN Newsource / x-news

NASA astronomers not yet know whether the water comes from the planet’s interior, or from the atmosphere. Even her discovery of Denmark experts, increases the chances of detecting signs of life there.

IAR / PAP / NASA / fc

A brief history of water on Mars – Gazeta Wyborcza

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After yesterday's conference, NASA, which announced the discovery of salt water flowing down the slopes periodically Mars, today the event live online. By the way recall key dates in the history of the search for water (and life) on the Red Planet.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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Mars is not dry. NASA discovered traces of salt water

The satirical ASZdziennik reports that Mars has become a new Leba: "Since the announcement that Mars is liquid water has passed only a few hours, and already on the Red Planet, the first screens ".

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On Google - marsajański Doodle:

And immortal meme that plainly explains what's going on in this finding:

Water on Mars - this time seriously

1972 and 1976

- The photographs of Mars provided by the US probe Mariner 9 and Viking 1 and 2 can be seen dry riverbeds, massive depression (a remnant of the ocean? - wonder researchers on Earth) and ice caps at the poles (with solid carbon dioxide, or also from the ice?).

2002

- The presence of dried-up riverbeds confirms the American Mars Odyssey orbiting orbit wokółmarsjańskiej. The probe detects, traces of water ice in the Martian soil.

2004

- Ice is also caps polar rocking the planet - confirms the European orbiter Mars Express.

2005

- Mars Express also reveals swathes of ice at the bottom of craters of the Red Planet.

2008

- The US Phoenix lander detects moisture in a sample of soil from near the Martian North Pole.

2010

- Traces of water activity in the Martian soil confirms American Spirit rover. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is rock minerals that have formed in water.

2013

- On the basis of measurements Curiosity rover's instruments, scientists estimate that 2 percent. the surface layer of earth on Mars is an aqueous permafrost.

2015

- Scientists have new evidence that billions of years ago the ocean covered a third of Mars. NASA announces that the water still - although seasonally and quite sparingly - running down the slopes of the Martian mountains.

         

         

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BREAKTHROUGH IN THE STUDIES: discovered water on Mars! – SE.pl

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NASA confirms the existence of water on the planet Mars. Google Celebrates! – Onet.pl

– Thanks to research, we know that three billion years ago, Mars looked very different – Green stressed. – He was the atmosphere and on the surface of a large ocean of liquid water. Mars suffered from massive climate change and therefore no longer see water flowing on the surface of the Red Planet. Today there was a revolution in its meaning – he added.

During a special press conference dedicated to the water on the Red Planet Green explained that the photographs taken, “you can see dark streaks that formed in the late spring, summer autumn grow and disappear.”

The study, which was conducted using spectrometers located on the Martian orbiter, scientists know that the composition streaks visible in the photos are “hydrated minerals” – explains the website of NASA. Streaks appear in the photographs appear in the warmer times of the Martian year and disappear as the temperature drops.

On Mars at the hottest time of summer temperature does not exceed minus twenty-three degrees Celsius. Why water does not freeze despite the cold temperatures prevailing on the surface of the Red Planet? According to scientists from NASA water on Mars contains a lot of minerals and is salty. Water with lots of mineral compounds can freeze at much lower temperatures of up to minus 94 degrees Celsius.

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The latest reports NASA decided to commemorate Google. The company presented so the new Doodle, which in a humorous way presents the planet Mars.

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Finally … When Google created the world looked very different, and how will having discovered water on Mars?

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Geologist PAN of water on Mars: this breakthrough information – Onet.pl

 
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  Geologist PAN of water on Mars: this groundbreaking information
 
 
 

Dr Łosiak referred in this way to Monday reported the American space agency. NASA announced that it has evidence of spectroscopic observations to the presence of hydrated salt on the surface of Mars, which indicates the periodic presence of liquid water in areas where they are present.

Recent analysis of data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) give the strongest evidence to date that liquid water exists on Mars periodically as today, and not only in the distant geological past . Using the imaging spectrometer operating on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers recorded the occurrence of signatures of hydrated minerals on the slopes, which are visible mysterious dark bands.

It is difficult today would gain even greater certainty as to the water – said Dr. Łosiak. – To have an even stronger confirmation, you would need to send a lander, rover’s best, who have checked everything right on the spot – she said.

Water on Mars is about the exciting, because it is essential every form of life as we know it, including bacteria that live in the most hostile conditions on Earth – drew the attention of Dr. Łosiak. – If the water is on Mars – that is to say that perhaps some form of life ever existed there, and may even managed to survive – he explains.

Geologist notes that we are talking about water as we know it (H2O). – It is important if we want the future to send humans into space. We need to choose a place where they can find water, not only because it is essential to drink. Also, because it can be to produce oxygen, it is also needed to get the rocket fuel – he says.

Geologist recalled that in the distant history of Martian water flowed there. – More than three billion years ago, Earth and Mars looked similar. On both planets, rain or snow, and rivers flow into lakes or even oceans. Unfortunately, more than three billion years ago a large part of the water, once present on the surface of the Red Planet, uleciało irretrievably into space. This was due to the much smaller than Earth’s gravitational pull of gravity that Mars “holds” its own atmosphere, and as a result the lack of a protective magnetic field.

– At the same time in the past accepted that the best explanation for some forms of terrain, such as for example RSL (puzzling structures on the surface of the Red Planet, known as “recurring slope lineae” which can be translated as ” periodically recurring lines on the slopes “- ed.), it is the presence of water. And not just in the distant past, but can also be quite recent – says Dr. Łosiak, one of the authors of the material devoted to the water on Mars, published in the latest issue of the journal “Icarus”. As for the calculation of the Polish-American team indicating that the surface of the northern polar cap of Mars may have water in liquid form.

Dr Łosiak points out that we are talking about the very distant past, the life of the planet. – The times in which dinosaurs are from us away 65 million years. We are talking about three billion years – she pointed out.

According to Dr. Łosiak, after confirming the presence of water on Mars most important question on this planet is now a matter of life: if it’s there at all developed, and if so, whether managed to survive to our times. This will take another mission, NASA and ESA, for example. The planned joint European Space Agency and the Russian Space Agency Roskosmos mission ExoMars, which will depart probably in 2016.

In 2018. is also planned to send the rover, which aim to determine whether there is life on Mars. Also new research will be conducted under the surface of the planet – said Dr. Łosiak. – Why? Mars is dry, there is there a very strong radiation. In organisms such as we know them, subject to such conditions, the genetic material would be simply destroyed. Therefore, if we can find potential microorganisms that they would rather live somewhere beneath the surface – he says.

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