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Scientists could never figure out why our Milky Way Galaxy didn't have carbon rich stars at its center, after all they were seen in other galaxies? Without these stars, we were at a loss to figure out how heavy elements were formed. All that is over with now. The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered these stars and guess where they are? They are at the center of our galaxy after all. A scientist has stated, "With the help of Spitzer spectra, we can easily determine whether the material returned by the stars to the interstellar medium is oxygen-rich or carbon-rich." It took the use of a powerful infrared spectrograph attached to the Spitzer scope, but the prize was found. The dust given off by the stars at the center of our galaxy contains both carbon and oxygen and the same is true for at least 14 nebulae in other parts of our galaxy.

You would think that by now all scientists would agree that Mars has water, but this is not the case. The debate is still raging. Many of the scientists that were involved with the Phoenix Mars Mission are adamant that water was found on the red planet, yet others are not so sure. One of the scientists discussed that water could be found moving back and forth by the lander's leg. Some say how can water be liquid on this freezing planet, but others respond that there is a high concentration of salt in the water that prevents it from freezing. Yet there are some members of the Phoenix team that don't believe that it was water that was seen. They think that frost was observed. They all seem to agree on the fact that there is ice on Mars, it is just the existence of liquid water that they are arguing over. This entire argument was caused by the fact that there were several globs of something near the landers legs that moved toward each other and merged, much as two puddles of water merging. The scientists that back the water theory state that the water on Mars has so much salt in it that it can remain liquid down to 176 degrees below freezing measured in Fahrenheit.

I have mentioned the fact many times that we really can't support having anymore space junk speeding around the planet. Even tiny pieces have tremendous kinetic energy when they travel at about 18,000 miles per hour. This could not have been illustrated any better than when the astronauts on the International Space Station had to hide in a Soyuz escape vehicle. The station had to be buttoned up, much the same way a submarine has all its door closed in case one compartment is breached. What was this danger caused by? A piece of space junk was heading toward the ISS and nobody could be sure if it was going to hit or not. The junk was a piece of a used booster that is known as a Payload Assist Module. This type of thing is used to boost satellites into higher orbits. The object was thought to be less than 1 kg and has the configuration of a piece of string. It is time for us to do a couple of things. First we have to somehow clean up all that junk and not allow anymore to accumulate. Second we have to find some way of protecting our vehicles from these things. Since the tiniest of things can be a danger, we need some sort of shield like the one proposed to stop cosmic radiation, but capable of either deflecting objects or destroying them.

Google Mars has a very strange Martian feature shown on it. I tried to find it on NASA but had no success. It can be viewed using Google Mars by entering Olympica Fossae in the search area. When that comes up go to 22”30'40 deg North by 117”01'28.98” West. Look for a double crater that looks like a pair of glasses next to a very long flow that is almost a straight line. To the right is a almost perfectly round crater with all sorts of what could be plateaus, or even ruins in it. Save this photo to your computer and then look at it in the negative. It is quite interesting and has many people feeling that it is not natural, but more like one of those round communities found on the South American Continent. The reason that I said to look at it in the negative is that this makes it clear that it is an exact circle, which is very strange indeed. It looks almost like a medallion. If this were found on earth would we think that we had found something from a past civilization? I wish I could post the photo, but copyright restriction from Google prevent me from doing so, even though this doesn't stop some other people.

Are we entering a new era of space exploration? Many think that we are. Oh I am not talking about spaceships or robotic probes. I am talking about the new Kepler Telescope that is supposedly powerful enough to detect earth like planets around distant stars. The size of the mirror on the Kepler scope would have been nothing special if it was an earth based telescope, The mirror is only 55 inches in diameter, far smaller than any new observatory being built on earth, but due to the fact that it is in space and has a very wide field of view that is dedicated to finding planets transiting in front of their stars, it should work just fine. It has a mission life of 3.5 years, but might last longer if updated and maintained by the astronauts. Some people are asking why bother looking for earth type planets, we have no way of reaching them or even contacting them right now in any reasonable time span? We have no way of knowing if any of the earth like planets we find even have any life on them, so in this way these people are correct. To them it may make no sense, especially in this time of deep financial hardship, but we have to look toward the future. For one thing, we really don't know what technology we really have that can be applied to either contacting or reaching a far off planet since all that would be secret? Secondly, even if we don't have any of this advanced stuff, we can get a sense that life might exist if we find enough planets that are like our own and we can create a plan to visit the most promising ones in the future.

A Russian General, Maj. Gen. Leonid Shershnev has charged that the United States was responsible for engineering the collision between the Cosmos 2251 satellite and the American Iridium 33 satellite that occurred over Siberia on February 10, 2009. The Russian deputy defense minister, Gen. Valentin Popovkin said that Russia was working on anti-satellite weapons and already had the basic key elements in place. Was this a threat? I don't see how much plainer that this could be? They seemed to really be saying, “come too close in the future and we will shoot you down.” One of our diplomats replied that from his experience in the cold war, whatever Russia accuses us of doing, they are doing themselves. Our military has replied that the collision was purely an accident. The Washingtontimes.com stated that,”Yet our sources provide a somewhat different story.” Their sources say the Russians were correct and the strike was no accident. They go on to say, “the possibility the Russians were testing a pre-positioned space mine is very plausible,"

Back to talking about Mars. Some American astrogeologists are now stating that they believe that there might be pockets of hot water trapped beneath Olympus Mons, the huge volcano that is over 15 miles high on Mars. They are now speculating that this huge area which is over three times as high as Mount Everest, could be the home to various alien life forms. It would be similar to the hot vents in our oceans that spawn life. A couple of scientists say that they have been analyzing this volcano and that they have come to the conclusion that it is shaped the way it is, because it harbors life. Here is what they have to say, according to their analysis, the asymmetric shape of the mighty Martian mountain can only be accounted for by the presence of watery clay strata under the volcanic materials making up the upper levels of its slopes. Evidence of clay has already been seen on Mars by the Mars Express orbital surveyor.