Searching for water on Mars is a classic in the history of science, and now it seems that Phoenix, NASA:s most recent craft that landed there some three weeks ago, has found ice on the red planet. The news was broadcast on Twitter. [via Anna Toss.]
Background information and pictures of the ice here.
Yes, Twitter. Yet another way of making people interact with science and technology. Today, 22 800 follow Phoenix on Twitter.
Most twitterers use the service to send up-to-the-second news about the minutiae of their lives to friends, but Rhea Borja, a member of Ms. McGregor’s team, sees it as a way to spread NASA news to twentysomethings. “To reach a new generation of folks,” said Ms. Borja, a thirtysomething.
In the past few years, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s media team has adopted many Web 2.0 technologies, producing podcasts, posting videos on YouTube, blogging and setting up a Facebook page
writes NYT.
Securing an extrascientific fanbase for space exploration is not only about big popular science media à la Carl Sagan anymore …
