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io9 - Jun 13, 2008
Earlier this week we showed you the wonderful “cosmic soap opera” from Disney’s “Mars and Beyond” television show from 1957. This much more serious clip shows what a future expedition to Mars might look like. The …
Also tagged: outer space, space travel, retro futurism, werner von braun, ernst stuhlinger
io9 - Jun 11, 2008
On December 4, 1957, the Disneyland TV show broadcast “Mars and Beyond,” a 53-minute exploration of the Red Planet’s history and future, as well as its impact on pop culture. A nerdy scientist, a hot secretary with a …
Also tagged: outer space, pulp, retro futurism
io9 - Jun 5, 2008
It's another installment of Ask a Biogeek, a column where UC Berkeley biology researcher Terry Johnson answers all your questions — especially the weird ones. Reader Daniel wonders: As a biologist who studies whole …
Also tagged: feature, top, ecology, environmentalism, synthetic biology, dune
io9 - Jun 5, 2008
At last, scientists have discovered a form of life that could have evolved on Mars. Geologists unearthed a treasure trove of fossilized remains in a salty, acidic lake in remote Australia — the creatures, probably …
io9 - May 31, 2008
Time for a little reality check. It seems like almost every day there's a piece of news about how "research suggests there were once oceans floating in the vacuum of space!" or "life could have once existed at the …
Also tagged: aliens, water, et, oceans, red planet
io9 - May 28, 2008
Currently there are six Earth satellites in orbit around Mars, and three Earth robots on the surface. The latest robot to land, the Phoenix Lander, touched down on Sunday afternoon. But as Oobject reminds us, there are …
Also tagged: space, science, top, space travel
io9 - May 27, 2008
The Phoenix Lander, a robotic research station that will do experiments for three months in the Martian arctic, yesterday touched down on Martian soil. It will drill down into the planet's crust to figure out what …
Also tagged: space, phoenix lander, space porn, martian colony
io9 - May 22, 2008
Life on Earth might actually be Martian — or Europan, or Titanese. Or maybe our ancestors came from outside our solar system, flung up from a distant planet (perhaps Caprica?) billions of years ago and migrated to …
Also tagged: alien, europa, asteroid, lichen, cyanobacteria, microbe, panspermia
io9 - May 20, 2008
Ever want to take a flying car trip on Mars? Well, now you can. A couple of years ago, some geo geeks worked with NASA to produce an amazing video of what it would look like to fly over the biggest canyon on Mars (and …
io9 - May 14, 2008
The Phoenix Mars Lander will touch down on the Martian surface on May 25, where it will probe the soil for signs of past life and touch Martian water (in the form of subsurface ice) for the first time in human history …
Also tagged: space, science, nasa, exobiology, phoenix mars lander