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Martian Methane Mystery
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1436.html

In this excerpt from the new Forward to the paperback edition of "Lonely Planets", planetary scientist David Grinspoon ponders what the recent discovery of methane on Mars could mean for the possibility for life on the Red Planet.

Titan Wind Mystery Settled from Earth
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1435.html

In a fortuitous turnabout, large ground-based telescopes have provided data needed to measure the winds encountered by the Huygens spacecraft as it descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last month -- measurements feared lost because of a communication error between Huygens and its mother ship, Cassini.

Moon, Planet or Star?
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1434.html

A strange miniature solar system may be composed of a star only slightly larger than a planet. At this scale, are the celestial objects that orbit it, planets or moons?

Carbon World
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1433.html

Most of the rocky planets familiar to us are predominantly silicate worlds, but a proposal for carbon or even diamond-like planets may add to the diversity of known solar systems.

Wednesday, February 09

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