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----- Original Message ----- From: Astrobiology Magazine To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 5:35 AM Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine Terraforming Mars, the Noble Experiment? http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1074.html Mars Society founder, Robert Zubrin, talks about how to terraform the red planet. His engineer's eye reveals his robust plans for not just getting to a new home, but also how to build one from scratch. The Good, the Bad, and the Ozone http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1073.html This week NASA will add to its tools for tracking changes in the global climate with the launch of the Aura spacecraft. Primarily geared to imaging atmospheric changes, Aura will answer questions about ozone: the good, the bad and what makes Earth unique among the other nine planets. Farmer Droids http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1072.html The practicality of inexpensive robots opens a host of worldly applications, whether tending a cornfield or testing for bugs. Just as in the film Star Wars, there may be a future role for autonomous robots to tend the farm while farmers blast off for other adventures. Detecting Single Biomolecules http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1071.html Teasing out a single biomolecule from a stark martian landscape may seem impossible. But even a trace of one of life's building blocks, RNA enzymes or ribozymes, can be analyzed in quantities too small to see or handle without special techniques that make them glow under fluorescent light. Monday, July 12 ------------------------ For more astrobiology news, visit http://www.astrobio.net To unsubscribe, send subject UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED]