I found quite a few articles dealing with our Solar System this week, so I thought I’d share them all in one post.

A Telescope Farm on the Moon? Maybe

Astronomers looking for a clear and quiet place from which to map the faintest echoes from the universe’s infancy may have found a welcome mat on the far side of the moon.

A farm of lunar radio telescopes is among 19 next-generation observatories that intrigued NASA enough to garner a combined $12 million for a year-long study.

Earth, Mars, Moon, have different origin, study says

A new study is challenging the long-standing notion that the whole solar system formed from the same raw materials.

Until now most scientists had believed that the inner solar system bodies—Mercury, Venus, Earth, its moon, and Mars—had the same composition as primitive meteorites called chondrites.

Salt deposits found on Mars, may point to former life on Mars

Scientists using a Mars-orbiting camera designed and operated at Arizona State University’s Mars Space Flight Facility have discovered the first evidence for deposits of chloride minerals – salts – in numerous places on Mars. These deposits, say the scientists, show where water was once abundant and may also provide evidence for the existence of former Martian life.

Evidence for Ocean Found at Saturn’s Moon Titan

An ocean seasoned with the chemical ingredients of life may lie hidden beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Titan.

The evidence? The entire surface of Titan appears to be sliding around, scientists say, like cheese over tomato sauce on a slice of pizza.

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