News from other planets

Water on the moon! Although I suspect this is mostly rah-rah from a NASA desperate to seem relevant, I love the idea that even the moon has water. It comes in from comets, apparently. No, I don't want to build a base there. Why? We've got one here. No point getting down another gravity well. Space exploration should be seeded from space, not from another rock.

Here's a photo of Mars, a much more beautiful planet than Luna, and somewhere I would really like to visit sometime.



Many more sublime pictures here at Boston.com.