What will happen to the Earth in millions of years? Probably, if the planet had to seek their future in a mirror would look at the copper surface of Mars. The red planet has too many similarities with the Earth as to think that this is a coincidence. In fact, analogies between the two planets are one of the pillars that support the research seeking life on Mars.
Jesus Martinez-Frias (Doctor of Geological Sciences and Research Scientist at the Center for Astrobiology CSIC / INTA, associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute, among many merits) has devoted much of his research to seek the truth about the origin of the Earth in its closest neighbor: Mars. You could not ignore the possibility of bringing the public a topic that, at least, aroused the curiosity of anyone who ask for its very existence. The opportunity came at the hand of the lecture that the University Carlos III of Madrid organized to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope . Titled "Astrocharlas" , university researchers reported scientific news in a "suitable for all audiences."
Already in the run, Frías ahead the pillars on which research is based on the existence of Martian life: meteorites, terrestrial and similar missions.
Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites: intergalactic space information
According
Royal Astronomical Society, a meteoroid lower body is a solar system that comes into contact with the atmosphere, and meanwhile, the term " meteor" is used to refer to visual and sound effect produced by its disintegration upon contact with Earth. The meteorites are, instead, the meteoroids that survive the impact and can be collected on the ground. Of them gets much of the relevant information about the red planet. According to research carried out so far, the components of the meteorites are common in most solar system bodies. Cold makes this point: "is the primordial matter of our galaxy, contain water and other chemical elements crucial for life. Indeed, were it not for some rain of meteorites over millions of years, Earth's atmosphere would never have come." This is the same meteor shower caused by one of the most marked biotic extinctions, which led to the disappearance of dinosaurs from the face of the earth.
Failure be by Alexander von Humboldt and Chladni Eff, two scientists of the seventeenth century, none of this would have been possible. They were the first to determine that meteorites came from outer space. His ideas, as usual with the rest of the developed theories of his time, slow to be accepted. Even the famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier responsible for the well-known law of conservation of mass, came to doubt their research to later recant and to agree with Chladni.
is hard to imagine the current development in the field of astrobiology not for the meeting of minds such as Galileo, Chladni and - more recently - Einstein (which, with the special theory of relativity failed to explain the motion of Mercury's orbit).
The machines take
Mars
brilliant minds could be considered a renewable energy source: never end. Unlike what happens with oil or natural gas, there will always be willing to devise curious minds for progress. Cold, as a member of the Astrobiology Center CSIC / INTA associated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute works in cooperation with bright engineers to develop a forthcoming Mars missions tread: the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). A complex "portable laboratory" which, as expected, will be released in 2011. As shown in the accompanying video below, thanks to the MSL will be possible to analyze the geological structure of the planet in order to find similarities with Earth:
The red planet is closer what we think
Riotinto
Specifically, province of Huelva. There, in their old mine workings , is one of the places most similar land on the Martian surface. The river which lends its name to the town has high concentrations of pyrite and copper ore, components that give the river a peculiar red color. Frias said the curious thing about this event: "This event makes it can observe very similar to the Martian surface . In Rio Tinto has come to find a bacterium that metabolizes minerals in the water, minerals also found on Mars, which makes one wonder: if a bacterium can live in such conditions in the Earth's surface, why should not I on another planet? Moreover, there is evidence that these bacteria can feed on meteorites from Mars " . Cold
ends his lecture with more than half hour behind schedule, but the public never tires. A scientist's exposure is followed by question time half-hour, rather than to clarify points of the conference, served for the present urge to speculate Frías on the future of their research. Admittedly, the science fiction film has left an imprint in the subconscious of everyone who believes in extraterrestrial life, Mars is (and surely will continue to be) a favorite destination in the minds of the dreamers to fantasize about one eighth passenger in the style of Alien .
Jesus Martinez-Frias (Doctor of Geological Sciences and Research Scientist at the Center for Astrobiology CSIC / INTA, associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute, among many merits) has devoted much of his research to seek the truth about the origin of the Earth in its closest neighbor: Mars. You could not ignore the possibility of bringing the public a topic that, at least, aroused the curiosity of anyone who ask for its very existence. The opportunity came at the hand of the lecture that the University Carlos III of Madrid organized to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope . Titled "Astrocharlas" , university researchers reported scientific news in a "suitable for all audiences." Already in the run, Frías ahead the pillars on which research is based on the existence of Martian life: meteorites, terrestrial and similar missions.
Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites: intergalactic space information
According
Royal Astronomical Society, a meteoroid lower body is a solar system that comes into contact with the atmosphere, and meanwhile, the term " meteor" is used to refer to visual and sound effect produced by its disintegration upon contact with Earth. The meteorites are, instead, the meteoroids that survive the impact and can be collected on the ground. Of them gets much of the relevant information about the red planet. According to research carried out so far, the components of the meteorites are common in most solar system bodies. Cold makes this point: "is the primordial matter of our galaxy, contain water and other chemical elements crucial for life. Indeed, were it not for some rain of meteorites over millions of years, Earth's atmosphere would never have come." This is the same meteor shower caused by one of the most marked biotic extinctions, which led to the disappearance of dinosaurs from the face of the earth. Failure be by Alexander von Humboldt and Chladni Eff, two scientists of the seventeenth century, none of this would have been possible. They were the first to determine that meteorites came from outer space. His ideas, as usual with the rest of the developed theories of his time, slow to be accepted. Even the famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier responsible for the well-known law of conservation of mass, came to doubt their research to later recant and to agree with Chladni.
is hard to imagine the current development in the field of astrobiology not for the meeting of minds such as Galileo, Chladni and - more recently - Einstein (which, with the special theory of relativity failed to explain the motion of Mercury's orbit).
The machines take
Mars
brilliant minds could be considered a renewable energy source: never end. Unlike what happens with oil or natural gas, there will always be willing to devise curious minds for progress. Cold, as a member of the Astrobiology Center CSIC / INTA associated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute works in cooperation with bright engineers to develop a forthcoming Mars missions tread: the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). A complex "portable laboratory" which, as expected, will be released in 2011. As shown in the accompanying video below, thanks to the MSL will be possible to analyze the geological structure of the planet in order to find similarities with Earth:
The red planet is closer what we think
Riotinto
Specifically, province of Huelva. There, in their old mine workings , is one of the places most similar land on the Martian surface. The river which lends its name to the town has high concentrations of pyrite and copper ore, components that give the river a peculiar red color. Frias said the curious thing about this event: "This event makes it can observe very similar to the Martian surface . In Rio Tinto has come to find a bacterium that metabolizes minerals in the water, minerals also found on Mars, which makes one wonder: if a bacterium can live in such conditions in the Earth's surface, why should not I on another planet? Moreover, there is evidence that these bacteria can feed on meteorites from Mars " . Cold ends his lecture with more than half hour behind schedule, but the public never tires. A scientist's exposure is followed by question time half-hour, rather than to clarify points of the conference, served for the present urge to speculate Frías on the future of their research. Admittedly, the science fiction film has left an imprint in the subconscious of everyone who believes in extraterrestrial life, Mars is (and surely will continue to be) a favorite destination in the minds of the dreamers to fantasize about one eighth passenger in the style of Alien .
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