Scientists on Wednesday said they have an explanation how one of Saturn's moons can spew out a giant plume of water vapor, adding to evidence a source of life -- water -- lies beneath the moon's frozen surface. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. picked by AfroMosHi 2 months ago

Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there. They've also found water in the same zone around two other young stars. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

I got rutabaga skins for the clothes that I wear. Rutabaga extract to wash my hair. Rutabaga vapor instead of gas. Rutabaga paper to wipe my ... nose. Do the rutabaga boogie. Come along with me. With a fresh rutabaga pulled right off the tree. Do the rutabaga boogie. Do it all the time. With a fresh rutabaga pulled right off the vine. --From "The Good Ol' Persons" album (Bay Records... read full post picked by indisguise 1 year ago

Geophysicists now have created the most detailed 3-D seismic images yet of the mostly submerged Chicxulub impact crater. The images show the crater contained sulfur-rich sediments that would have reacted with the water vapor to create sulfate aerosols. These compounds in the atmosphere would have made the impact deadlier by cooling the climate and producing acid rain. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The green dots indicate Pseudomonas syringae bacteria suspended in ice. Like other so-called biological ice nucleators, P. syringae gives water vapor a place to meet, join and form ice crystals that later fall to Earth. Brent Christner/Louisiana State University The sky is not an ethereal, sterile realm. It's teeming with bacteria, and scientists say that the microbes play a powerful role in prod... read full post picked by mutil8or 8 months ago

Much different from traditional skywriting airplanes... five aircraft flying at 10,000 FT. emit biodegradable vapor "PUFFS" in a dot matrix pattern. The average time to skytype a character the size of the empire state building is only four seconds! picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Mysterious vapor geysers on a Saturn moon may result from massive cracks in ice cover opening and closing under the gravitational sway of the satellite's lopsided orbit picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago