Hullart.com Blog tagged 'Mars'

NASA, Space and the New Direction for Development

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0100

I applaud Obama's new direction for space exploration. It provides NASA with a focus for its mission. It will also help to foster the development of the commercial Space Industry. It brings clarity that has been missing in the past. This will allow the creation of new captial investment in Space thus accelerating progress.

Clarity is one of the missions that I always thought was primary in realtion to an effective goverments role. People&nb [...]

Matter or Space

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Why do we spend so much of our time exploring the material aspects of space when they represent so little of the Universe? I think it is because the variety and evolution of the material part of the universe is evident to our five senses. But if all is an integrated whole then one could hypothesize that space(the void) too has more variety and is evolving although beyond our limited sensory perception. Perhaps the 'void' is m [...]

Ice on Mars??

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Is it important whether or not we find specific evidence of water on Mars? I think not. We have substantial evidence that Mars was once a planet that had quite a bit of water. So if we find water what would we do about it? What would it change in regards to our present space program or the pace of space exploration? I think nothing.

The fact that we successfully accomplished this part of the mission is probably more important than if we find water locked up in the form of ice on the pl [...]

The Man Who Invented Mars

jim@hullart.com — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100

The Boston Globe has an interesting article about Percival Lowell, "The man who invented Mars." Ok, so Mars existed before Lowell ever peered through his telescope. But, the 19th Century Boston native contributed greatly to the public perception of the Red Planet. Lowell was obsessed with proving that there was intelligent life on Mars and was a great popularizer of his ideas, much to the dismay of the rest of the scientific community. His ideas and [...]

Follow Up on Greening of Mars as a Global Space Initiative

jim@hullart.com — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100

While looking for life by 'following the water' strategy NASA reported this week that it has found what appears to be the indication of Dry Hot Springs on Mars. As a follow up to my last post this is an invitation to the obvious. If it once had water and perhaps life there is an even more compelling reason why an overall goal of 'Greening Mars' makes sense. To recreate a life sustaining system on a planetary scale is a goal well worth our capabilities. As stated in my previous po [...]

Recent Article in Cosmos Magazine(Issue 18) on Gardens on Mars

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0100

A recent article in Cosmos discussed the greening of mars. If we are looking for something of great value and magnitude that would get the world excited again about space it is just such a project. If we can green a planet perhaps we can learn enough to save and recover our own. For a world focused on 'industrialized consumptive destruction' this project, as a master project of a world wide Space Program, could turn the tide in thinking about priorities. Today we seem to think that it [...]

Mars in Ten Years??

jim@hullart.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0100

A recent article in Cosmos Magazine related the importance of a trip to Mars in the not too distant future. As they remarked NASA is working toward it but not on a plan that would see man set foot in the red planet in the next ten years. It further went on the suggest that the Mars Dir [...]