ISS Cost Overruns May Stop Manned Mars Mission Plans

Feb. 28, 2001 Proposal scraps Mars mission plan Former JSC chief's cuts would try to recoup station overrun By Steven Siceloff FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Planning for manned missions to Mars will be put on hold, training may be curtailed, and the astronaut corps could shrink late

Speaking of Jovian SF stories...

OFF THE SHELF Sir Arthur C. Clarke gathers a lifetime of gripping short fiction in "The Collected Stories," while Ben Bova descends to the surface of a treacherous planet to solve a great mystery of the universe in "Jupiter." http://www.scifiweekly.com/issue201/books.html == You are subscrib

SETI Education Special Opportunities Update

GREETINGS SETI EDUCATION NEWS SUBSCRIBERS! == SETI INSTITUTE CURRICULUM FIELD TEST CONTACT JANE FISHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grades 9-10: Our "Voyages Through Time" project is seeking field test teachers and schools across the US

Water eruptions on Ganymede?

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010228/sc/space_ganymede_dc_1.html Wednesday February 28 3:35 PM ET Galileo Images Show Slushy Surface on Jupiter's Moon LONDON (Reuters) - Digital images of Jupiter's largest moon show a bright flat surface that scientists said on Wednesday was probably ca

Magnetic Chains from Mars

Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:30:41 -0600 Subject: Magnetic Chains from Mars To: "NASA Science News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: NASA Science News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Owner: Reply-To: "NASA Science News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA Science News fo

AN ECONOMIC RATIONALE FOR BECOMING A SPACEFARING CIVILIZATION

Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:51:43 -0800 (PST) From: Elaine Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NSS/NYC Update! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all! Please join us for this Saturday's lecture/celebration! It's our one year anniversary! Ad Astra! *** MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES ***

Two-day seminar to honor leading planetary specialist Peter Gierasch on his 60th birthday

Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:44:51 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cornell News: Gierasch symposium Two-day seminar to honor leading planetary specialist Peter Gierasch on his 60th birthday FOR RELEASE: March

Cornell researchers adapt high-energy physics instruments to measure violent turbulence

Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:55:07 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cornell News: measuring turbulence Cornell researchers adapt high-energy physics instruments to measure violent turbulence FOR REL

So much for the two ends of the Sol system

NASA Kills Solar Probe and Pluto Missions The Bush administration has directed NASA to kill its Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission and Solar Probe spacecraft that was to study the Sun up close. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/pluto_killed_010228.html?Enews=y == You are subscribed to t

What's New for Mar 02, 2001

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:59:57 -0500 (EST) From: "What's New" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: What's New for Mar 02, 2001 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. ParkFriday, 2 Mar 01 Washington, DC 1. LOW-EARTH ORBIT: BAD NEWS FOR HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT. Spending on the space station is $4B over budget, and Bus

NSF Invites Media to Report on U.S.-Sponsored Antarctic Research (2001-2002 Season)

Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:18:49 -0500 (EST) From: NSF Custom News Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CNS Subscribers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ma0106] - News Releases The following document (ma0106) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: NSF Invites Media to Report on

NSF Invites Media to Visit North Pole Station

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:11:54 -0500 (EST) From: NSF Custom News Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CNS Subscribers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ma0107] - News Releases The following document (ma0107) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: NSF Invites Media to Visit Nor

Pioneer 10 Status Report for March 2, 2001

http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov:80/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html STATUS UPDATED: 2 March 2001 PIONEER MISSIONS Pioneer 10 distance from Sun: 77.26 AU Speed relative to the Sun: 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph) Distance from Earth: 11.54 billion kilometers (7.17 billion miles) Round-trip L

Issue 2 of the Tvashtar Sun is due out this week

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Jason Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:33:49 -0600 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upcoming Issue Issue 2 of the Tvashtar Sun is due

SETI@home back online

This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=117 SETI@home back online Posted: Sat, Mar 3 3:59 PM ET (2059 GMT) The SETI@home project's connection to the Internet was restored Saturday a

SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI

Scientific Programming Editor: Paul F. Dubois, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI By Eric Korpela, Dan Werthimer, David Anderson, Jeff Cobb, and Matt Lebofsky Since radio's earliest days, people have considered the possibility of detecting signals from an

A Science, Not a Search

http://www.setileague.org/editor/setisci.htm A Science, Not A Search by Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently, the notion that we share our universe with countless sentient species has emerged out of the realm of fiction, into the sc

Yuri's Night

The Web site for all the celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the first human to orbit Earth on April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin in the Vostok 1 spacecraft. http://216.246.64.159/ == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (u

Cosmos 1 solar sail mission artwork and films

These Web sites contain artwork, diagrams, animations, and films of the Cosmos 1 solar sail mission, set for a suborbital test from a Russian nuclear submarine next month and the first orbital flight this October. http://carlsagan.com/solarsail/index.html http://www.planetary.org/html/news/art

The Europa probe from 2010: The Year We Make Contact

This is the actual model used in the 1984 film launched from the Soviet manned Jupiter spaceship Leonov to investigate Europa: http://www.2001exhibit.org/probe.html It looks like a probe that could actually work. Larry == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTE

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ONLINE EXHIBIT UPDATE

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ONLINE EXHIBIT UPDATE 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ONLINE EXHIBIT UPDATE UPDATE - March 5, 2001: Greetings from Dennis Gonzales 33 years later... Last email, I forgotten to mention one more 2001 collec

Lecture on Mars - March 22, 2001

Subject: Lecture on Mars March 22 Date: 6 Mar 2001 22:36:37 GMT From: "Geoffrey A. Landis" <" geoffrey.landis"@sff.net> Organization: www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Author and scientist Geoffrey A. Landis will be presenting a lecture at the Berea Bran

SETI at Arecibo: Scientists Will Be Slow to Celebrate Any Contact

SETI at Arecibo: Scientists Will Be Slow to Celebrate Any Contact On Tuesday, March 6, Seth Shostak will return to Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to continue SETI's observations. It's a 10-day mission this year and SPACE.com will be home to Seth's Arecibo Diaries. http://www.space.com/searchforlife/se

IJW Satellite Newsletter -- 2001 # 3

Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:34:07 -0700 From: "Robert R. Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IJW Newsletter -- 2001 #3 To: IJW Satellite List: ; IJW Satellite Newsletter -- 2001 # 3 Two items of recent news (well at least one news, and one the lack thereof): Here is a message from John Spencer

Howdy Fellow Icepickers!

How goes the designing of our probe? Where do we stand regarding the graphics? Thanks! Larry == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Life in a poisonous cave in May, 2001 National Geographic

The online version at this URL:   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature4/index.html      

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Webcast

NASA Science News for April 25, 2001Astrobiologists are visiting the Indian Ocean to explore a bizarreundersea ecosystem that doesn't need sunlight to flourish. You can jointhem via a live webcast on April 26th!FULL STORY athttp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast25apr_1.htm?list522292---

New SETI book - Beyond Contact Web site

This is the publisher's Web site for the new SETI book:   Beyond Contact A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations   By Brian McConnell March 20010-596-000375, Order Number: 0375424 pages, $24.95 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/alien/index.html   Larry    

europa@klx.com

The Future of SETI *NEW!* By Seth Shostak Searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are about to expand into new realms, thanks to new advances in technology – and new thinking. Adapted from Sky & Telescope, April 2001. http://www.skypub.com/news/special/seti_future.html   A Newer, Smart

Anyone conducting Europa/Icepick exhibits for Space Day?

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.govContact: Guy Webster (818) 354-6278FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   April 26, 2

Exploring life at a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean

  A special LIFTOFF Explorers   Right now scientists are studying a hydrothermal vent at thebottom of the Indian Ocean. What's so special about that? Well, how aboutthat it's so deep that there is no sunlight to maintain plant life, butthere are lots of creatures living there, anyway!  Scien

europa@klx.com

Please read this for further edification on the subject: http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/index.html Larry - Original Message - From: "Reeve, Jack W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:21 PM Subject: RE: Two new online artic

Response to comments re: Two new online articles about SETI

From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 4:45 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Larry Klaes; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Response to comments re: Two new online articles about SETIHere is my response to Gail/Robert/Jack:> On Friday, April

An Ocean in Space

16 April 2001: An Ocean in Space, SpaceRef Recent research has heightened interest in "worlds that may be rich in liquid water below the surface," said Chris Chyba, associate professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University and director of the Center for the Study o

HUBBLE SHOWS JUST HOW VIOLENT PLANET FORMATION CAN BE

HUBBLE SHOWS JUST HOW VIOLENT PLANET FORMATION CAN BE- New photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show a region ofspace inside the Orion Nebula, where new planets are being formed.Far from a gentle process, though, the young planets are blasted byradiation from a

Is Anybody Out There?

Is Anybody Out There? [30 April 2001] Once it was asked in whispers, or with winks. The timid among us, though undeniably curious, feared raised eyebrows. Jokes about little green men. Who could take such a question seriously, yank it from the misty realms of science fiction and drop it unde

STUDENTS FROM ACROSS NATION TO PRESENT JUPITER RESULTS TO JPL

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.govContacts: JPL/Guy Webster (818) 354-6278  Lewis Center for Educational Research/Craig

Humanity's first interstellar probe still calling home

PIONEER 10 MAKES CONTACT- After hearing nothing but static for 9 months, NASA has madecontact with the Pioneer 10 space probe again. The spacecrafthadn't been heard from since August 19, 2000, which led scientiststo believe its transmitter was working, or it had even

BLAINE BAGGETT TO TELL "STORIES FROM JPL'S EARLY YEARS"

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Contact:  (818) 354-0112FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   April 30, 2001BLAINE BAGGETT

PUBLIC INVITED ON A SPACE ODYSSEY

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.govContact: Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   

Space Weather on Mars

NASA Science News for May 1, 2001Future human explorers of Mars can leave their umbrellas back on Earth,but perhaps they shouldn't forget their Geiger counters! A NASA experimenten route to the Red Planet aims to find out.FULL STORY athttp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01may_1.htm?lis

How oxygen built up on Earth 2 billion years ago

Two billion year old carbon signature of Wyoming rocks helps to revealshape of ancient ocean in middle America   Discoveries by a Virginia Tech doctoral student have provided missinginformation about how oxygen was able to build up in Earth's atmospheretwo billion years ago, and is helping to

NEW JPL DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES LAB REORGANIZATION

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CA 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.govContact: Franklin O'Donnell (818) 354-5011 May 2, 2001NEW JPL DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES LAB REORGANIZAT

Pioneer 10 Status for May 3, 2001

http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html   STATUS UPDATED: 03 May 2001 PIONEER MISSIONS Pioneer 10 distance from Sun : 77.70 AU Speed relative to the Sun: 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph) Distance from Earth: 11.75 billion kilometers (7.30 billion miles) Round-trip Li

Seven billion miles and still counting!

NASA Science News for May 3, 2001Last week NASA received a weak signal from Pioneer 10, twice as far from the Sun as Pluto and speeding toward the constellation Taurus. The well-traveled spacecraft is currently exploring the outer heliosphere, butsoon it will take on a new job: ambassador to

Re: Seven billion miles and still counting!

From the May 3, 2001 Status Report for Pioneer 10:   The status of the Geiger Tube Telescope instrument (James Van Allen, P.I.) is on. We have not reduced the data from this current contact yet, but believe that it has been received. Due to power considerations, this is the only instrument t

STUDENTS PRESENT JUPITER RESULTS IN LIVE TELECAST AND WEBCAST

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.govContact: Guy Webster, (818) 354-6278INTERNET AND TV ADVISORY May 3, 20

So what is the status of the Icepick graphics?

And anything else related to actual Icepick development?   Thank you.   Larry    

Fewer Planets, Less Life?

"If there really is extraterrestrial intelligence somewhere beyondour planet, it doesn't seem to be all that anxious to be discovered. Fordecades now, scientists and ET enthusiasts have been keeping an ear open tothe heavens, expecting to pick up some clue, perhaps a televisionprogram, or m

This Week on Galileo May 7-13, 2001

    This Week on Galileo   May 7 - 13, 2001This week sees a modest collection of engineering activities occupy Galileo's attention, in addition to the continuing playback of data from the tape recorder. On Thursday, the spacecraft performs an Orbit Trim M

The worms that eat methane

In 1997, Charles Fisher, professor of biology at Penn State, discoveredthis remarkable creature  living on mounds of methane ice under half a mileof ocean on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.     The new worm species, Hesiocaeca methanicola has already helped redefine "life as we know it." 

The Perils of Pauline/Pluto

The Perils of Pauline  http://www.spacedaily.com/news/outerplanets-01d.html  Cameron Park - May 7, 2001 - The extraordinary "Perils of Pauline" saga of the proposed Pluto-Kuiper flyby probe -- which would be the first mission to the last unexplored planet in the Solar System, and then continu

Engineering ET: The Path to Alternate Life Forms

Engineering ET: The Path to Alternate Life Forms http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/neogenesis_scitues_010501-1.html?Enews=yCloning, move over. The powerful and potentially dark force that would give you a "mini-me" may soon be knocked off genetic engineering's center stage

Did the star HD 82943 swallow one of its planets?

Did the star HD 82943 swallow one of its planets? The VLT Uncovers Traces of Stellar Cannibalism Using the ESO VLT 8.2-m KUEYEN telescope, astronomers have detected the presence of the rare isotope Lithium-6 in HD 82943, a solar-type star known to possess a planetary system. Curiously, any p

Earth life 500 million and 200 million years ago - new evidence

A discovery near the Great Wall in China could change the science of plate tectonics and provide some clues into how life might have developed on Earth. Researchers have discovered the oldest complete section of oceanic sea floor on the planet, which is more than 500 million years older than pr

Italian researchers find traces of life in meteorites: press

Italian researchers find traces of life in meteorites: press  http://www.spacedaily.com/news/010510014102.tc9rjtea.html    

Reflections From a Warm Little Pond

Reflections From a Warm Little Pond  http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-01m.html  University Park - May 10, 2001 - Back in 1953, Jim Kasting said, scientists thought they had the origin of life figured out. Chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago had simulated th

Mass extinctions, seed Mars with life, and Venus Revealed

* Fifth Worst Mass Extinction Linked to Asteroid Impact http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/tj_extinction_010511-1.html?Enews=y They call them the Big Five -- a handful of unfathomable mass extinctions over the past 500 million years, each estimated to have obliterated somewhere

SCIENTISTS, PUBLIC ASK NASA TO EXTEND GALILEO IMAGING

SCIENTISTS, PUBLIC ASK NASA TO EXTEND GALILEO IMAGING- A group of planetary scientists and space activists are petitioning NASA to keep the cameras on the Galileo spacecraft active long enough to take images of the volcanic moon Io during a

Pioneer 10 lives on!

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=332   Pioneer 10 lives on. Larry LasherSunday, April 29, 2001   Pioneer 10: Distance from Sun : 77.67 AUSpeed relative to the Sun: 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph)Distance from Earth: 11.74 billion kilometers (7.29 billion miles)Round-trip Light Time

Bruce Moomaw reports on the 32nd Annual LPSC

- LPSC 2001: A Martian Odyssey  http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunarplanet-2001-01a1.html  Cameron Park - May 1, 2001 - The 32nd Annual Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference  held in Houston during mid-March was a major scientific powwow that brought together scientists from all over world

Did Italian scientists find exobacteria in a meteorite?

ITALIANS REVIVE SPACE BACTERIA - A team of Italian scientists reported that they have found and revived bacteria contained inside an ancient meteorite. If true, this discovery would add tremendous support to the theory that life on Earth could have been seeded by bacteria

What is Titan made of?

WHAT IS TITAN MADE OF? - New images taken with the adaptive optics system at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have provided some new insights into Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan is very interesting to scientists because its environment is similar to the Eart

FW: First European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology & What is Titan really made of?

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:58 AM Subject: First European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology & What is Titan really made of? First European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology >From 21 to 23 May, the first European Works

Paine Commission report on-line

-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen J. GarberSent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:46 AMSubject: Paine Commission report on-line We are pleased to announce that Pioneering the Space Frontier: The Report of the National Commission onSpace

A Taste for Comet Water

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NASA Science News Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 1:03 PM To: NASA Science News Subject: A Taste for Comet Water NASA Science News for May 18, 2001 When Comet LINEAR broke apart last year it revealed what many

Titan's Composition and Tight Binary Stars in Dense Cluster

* Ice, Rock, Organic Compounds: What Is Titan Made Of? http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/esa_titan_composition_0105 17-1.html?Enews=y Scientists expect to have a much clearer vision of the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, when the Huygens probe touches down on its s

Sustaining Life During Deep-Space Missions

Sustaining Life During Deep-Space Missions http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-manned-01d.html Guelph - May 18, 2001 - Life on Mars is one step closer to reality following the opening of a Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility at the University of Guelph that will seek to better un

Today On Galileo - May 21, 2001

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:08 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Today On Galileo - May 21, 2001 Today on Galileo Monday, May 21, 2001 Galileo's Mission at Jupiter - The Calm Before the Storm Today is the final full day of the cruise

Could Icepick do something like this?

SEND YOUR S.O.S THROUGH THE ICE http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/news.jsp?id=ns229134 == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Astrobiology and related news from May 17, 2001

A Comet's Life: Icy Adventure From Birth to Death http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/comet_linear_010517-1.html ?Enews=y A detailed analysis of a comet that broke apart last summer has provided direct evidence to support the idea that the ingredients for life on Earth arrived in a

Ants and infertile humans are not alive, but parasitic DNA is

Ants and infertile humans are not alive, but parasitic DNA is, according to a new, universal definition of life. http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns748 == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe

FW: Today On Galileo - May 22, 2001

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:43 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Today On Galileo - May 22, 2001 Today on Galileo Tuesday, May 22, 2001 Galileo's Mission at Jupiter - Day 1 of the Callisto 30 encounter Tod

Galileo Gets One Last Close Encounter With Jupiter's Callisto

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 1:23 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Galileo Gets One Last Close Encounter With Jupiter's Callisto Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DCMay 22, 2001 (Phone: 2

FW: Issue 3 of Io Newsletter due out this week

-Original Message-From: Jason Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:24 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Issue 3 due out this weekI am just writing all of you to let you know that Issue 3 of the Tvashtar Sun is due out this week.  In this issue, there will an ar

Menagerie of Mars Scouts: Bold New Proposals for Exploring The Red Planet

Menagerie of Mars Scouts: Bold New Proposals for Exploring The Red Planet http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/mars_scout_program_010521-1.ht ml Mars attracts! Everything from a solar-powered hopper and high flying vehicles to a Mother Goose craft that unleashes tiny robotic goslings -

Complex Life Conditions Arose Earlier on Earth

Complex Life Conditions Arose Earlier on Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_moving_010521.html Earth's massive land slabs were on the move much earlier in the planet's history than previously assumed, a research team says, and that means complex life had enough heat a

AstroAlert: "Triton Watch" Now Under Way

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly Beatty Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AstroAlert: "Triton Watch" Now Under Way "TRITON WATCH" NOW UNDER WAY Joel W. Parker and S. Alan

FW: [META] The Planetary Society's position on the NASA program,

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [META] The Planetary Society's position on the NASA program, presented to Congress on May 15, 2001. The Hono

Pioneer 10 Status Report for May 22, 2001

A note from Pioneer 10: FLOP to FLIP The command counter toggles as the Pioneer 10 spacecraft received our No-Op command sent up on Friday 18 May and noted on the successful down link Saturday 19 May. No more tracks scheduled at the moment and probably no more high power up links from Stat

Spring, 2001 USRA newsletter on exoplanet controversy

The Spring, 2001 issue of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) newsletter has an article on "The Extrasolar Planet Controversy". USRA President Dr. David C. Black contends that most of the objects currently labeled as exoplanets are actually "just" very dim stellar companions to th

FW: Today On Galileo - May 23, 2001

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:38 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Today On Galileo - May 23, 2001 Today on Galileo Wednesday, May 23, 2001 Galileo's Mission at Jupiter - Day 2 of the Callisto 30 Encounter

Europe launches into astrobiology

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: Europe launches into astrobiology Is our planet an oasis of life in an otherwise dead universe? Twenty years ago, the scientific consensus was "yes, probably". Now it has shifted to "probably not"

FW: Galileo Millennium Mission Status

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:38 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Galileo Millennium Mission Status MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASAD

FW: Planet Trail Pics

-Original Message- From: History of Astronomy Discussion Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sepp Rothwangl Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Planet Trail Pics New Pics of the opening of the Planet Trail "HEAVEN on EARTH" at Science Week Austr

FW: GREEN LIGHT FOR DEEP IMPACT MISSION DEVELOPMENT

-Original Message- From: Larry Kellogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Larry Kellogg Subject: GREEN LIGHT FOR DEEP IMPACT MISSION DEVELOPMENT Good day to you who are looking up. And what will you see? Get your CCD cameras and

Unmasking the Face on Mars

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NASA Science News Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:00 PM To: NASA Science News Subject: Unmasking the Face on Mars NASA Science News for May 24, 2001 New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacec

Lake Vostok helium

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Edwin Kite Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lake Vostok helium "http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1345000/1345583.stm Scientists say there is little chance of fin

FW: NASA Gives Go-Ahead to Build 'Deep Impact' Spacecraft

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Galileo Succeeds In Its Closest Flyby Of A Jovian Moon

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 6:04 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Galileo Succeeds In Its Closest Flyby Of A Jovian Moon MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE AD

FW: Alert: Canada to Mount All-Canadian Mission to Mars

From: SpaceRef Mailer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Alert: Canada to Mount All-Canadian Mission to Mars Speaking at the 3rd Canadian Space Exploration Workshop in Montreal this evening, CSA Vice President Marc Garneau announced that the Canadian Space

Cryobot Explores Antarctica, Preparing for ET Hunt

* Cryobot Explores Antarctica, Preparing for ET Hunt http://www.space.com/searchforlife/ice_probe_scitues_010529-1.html The search for extraterrestrial life -- on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, or anywhere -- is not likely to be an easy chore. It's a pretty safe bet that there won't be any critter

FW: This Week On Galileo - May 28 - June 2, 2001

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:18 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: This Week On Galileo - May 28 - June 2, 2001 This Week on Galileo May 28 - June 2, 2001 The excitement of the encounter week has settled do

New Images of Dust Devils, Dunes and "The Face"

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:41 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: New Images of Dust Devils, Dunes and "The Face" MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINIS

Tropical glaciers formed while Earth was giant snowball

Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were created. Now, Penn State geoscientists believe that these glaciers could only have formed after the Earth's oceans

Future Martian Samples Should Be Quarantined, Report Says

Future Martian Samples Should Be Quarantined, Report Says http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_quarantine_010530.htm l Martian rock samples returned to Earth via future spacecraft must be quarantined to protect our planet from hazardous organisms that could hitch a ride here,

Cassini's Tour de Saturn

Cassini's Tour de Saturn http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cassini-01f1.html Cameron Park - May 25, 2001 - In our final report on the Cassini mission to Saturn we look at the ongoing tour of Saturn Cassini will perform as the probe spends at least four years looping about Saturn and its rings an

Send in the Robots

Send In The Robots http://www.spacedaily.com/news/robot-01b.html Pasadena - May 29, 2001 - Ayanna Howard may never set foot on Mars or lead a mission to Jupiter, but the work she's doing on "smart" robots will help to revolutionize planetary exploration nonetheless. Artificial Intelligence S

Mars life on Earth

Martian Cook Up Closer Than Ever http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-life-01e.html Fayetteville - May 23, 2001 - University of Arkansas researchers have moved one step closer to growing microorganisms under Mars-like conditions by suspending them in water containing dissolved matter from Mars

Life, the universe and everything discussed in Frascati

The first European workshop on exo/astrobiology ended last week with participants summarizing the latest findings in these three areas and outlining where and how they would like to search for extraterrestrial life. http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=4978 == You are subscribed to th

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