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There's a much lighter, working space suit design that's been available for years, and has been repeatedly redesigned. It's called a "skin suit". Essentially a wetsuit with a helmet, the suit relies on the astronaut's own skin as part of its structure holding in the astronaut's body fluids. Air, or oxygen, released into the helmet passes down the suits structure and through the astronaut, themselves, and slowly leaks out the slightly porous material. This avoids the mechanical pressurizaiton problems of providing air at enough pressure to breathe, but dealing with the pressure throughout the enite surace of the suit. It also providing critical cooling for most space suit use. It does consume air or oxygen in use, but the mass lost in days of use is quite modest compared to the mass, difficulty of use, complexity, and mechanical fragility of the heavy and overbuilt modern space suits.

An example can be seen at http://spaceindustrynews.com/mits-next-mars-space-suit/, The technology has worked since the 1960's, when Paul Webb originally designed it.

At least one of the suits (DRS Analogue) looks like its made from overalls, old backpack, PVC plumbing elements and silver duct-tape. I don't know if I should laugh or admire the pioneer spirit. Ah, one one more thing: all the suits are ugly as hell. What happened to this nice design: http://spaceindustrynews.com/mits-next-mars-space-suit/1563/ ?

Did you actually read the post you replied to?

did you guys read the article on the site this was spam advert for? "This movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset. Phobos first appears near the lower center of the view and moves toward the top of the view. The clip runs at accelerated speed; the amount of time covered in it is about 27 minutes. - See more at: http://spaceindustrynews.com/mars-curiosity-rover-shoots-video-of-phobos-moon-rising-video/3694/#sthash.S2LW6qw2.dpuf" yeah, the headline is there "rising" as well. and this is after sunset. but it is directly overhead, it doesn't show it "rising" in the sense most people would think moonrise to be.. that it rises from the horizon.

pure tripe, for a moving dot.