Moon ice and Mars weather report

The current lunar mission LRO LCROSS, was pushed back for Endeavour and is now set for Thursday afternoon at the earliest or possibly Friday. That mission, among other purposes, will be searching for ice under the Moon's surface.

This may provide support for a human base station. In addition, research may provide the potential that other planets or moons in our solar system have water- essential to life as we know it. It is also a primary ingredient in weather. While the moon has no atmosphere, it is possible that it did at one point in history it did. This would further increase the hope for finding life on other planets.

Weather on Mars was the primary focus of the last Mars mission. In addition to digging for ice, The Phoenix Mars Mission, a Canadian based weather station, continues to follow weather conditions are the Martian surface. the atmosphere is about 1% of ours, overloaded with carbon dioxide, and rain free. There is belief that at one point water did freely flow and carve our the landscape. Today the weather does have dramatic temperature fluctuations and sand storms.

Check out the Martian weather report below. Check back for another report on Space Weather including that of the sun and other planets.

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