'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20100421.html

"It's a big puzzle," said Kevin Stevenson, a planetary sciences graduate student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, lead author of a study appearing tomorrow, April 22 in the journal Nature. "Models tell us that the carbon in this planet should be in the form of methane. Theorists are going to be quite busy trying to figure this one out."

Deepest Part of the Ocean

http://frozenly.com/2010/02/deepest-part-of-the-ocean/

The Mariana Trench is 11,033 meters (36,201 feet), (6033.5) fathoms deep. The Pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is over 8 tons per square inch. The Mariana Trench is 2, 542 km (1,580 miles) long and 69 km (43 miles) wide.

Amazing Creatures:

'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer

PASADENA, Calif., (NASA) – NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet — it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system.

http://spacefellowship.com/news/art19700/this-planet-tastes-funny-according-to-spitzer.html

Earth twin

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uocf-agm042110.php

A gassy mystery: Researchers discover surprising exoplanetary atmosphere

A Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a small star about 33 light years away could be a key stepping stone on the path to making sense of an Earth twin.

Saturnian Astrooceanography

http://www.realfuture.org/wordpress/?p=1740

Ah yes, ain't that fresh, everybody wants to get down like that...

The Tao made me do it

http://space.wikia.com/wiki/Astrosciences

I like to think I'd coined yet another phrase. Words are cool.

Exoplanet House of Horrors

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/exoplanetHouseOfHorrors.html

Astronomers may be closer than ever to discovering a planet that’s habitable like our own, but along the way they’ve discovered some very scary exoplanets – places where conditions are far too harsh for life as we know it to exist.

We’ve rounded up some of the most frightening, deadly exoplanets, places that make even the scariest haunted house on Earth pale in comparison