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The Catholic archbishop of Washington has removed a well-known priest who said UFO sightings were the work of demons

A new hypothesis from SETI Institute scientist Dr. Janice Bishop and Dr. Melissa Lane from Fibernetics in Pennsylvania could explain how early Mars may have had water on its surface, similar to Earth, even though today its atmosphere is too thin to support liquid water. Bishop and Lane suggest underground water could have formed clays and carbonates billions of years ago – either through subsurface reactions with rocks or precipitation from saturated pore waters. Later, salty, acidic water at t…

We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red?

 

 

The George Brown Lecture Award, presented annually to an exceptional clay mineralogist in recognition of their research achievements, was bestowed upon Dr. Janice Bishop. Bishop is a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute and chair of its Science Council’s astrobiology group. The Clay Minerals Group (CMG) of the Mineralogical Society of the UK and Ireland honored Bishop at its award ceremony on July 24 at the Euroclay Conference in Bari, Italy.