Titan’s haze may hold ingredients for life, University of Arizona “In an experiment exploring the chemical processes that might be going on in the hazy atmosphere enshrouding Saturn’s largest moon, […]
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50th Anniversary of NASA's Exo/Astrobiology Program
Seeking Signs of Life: A Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Exo/Astrobiology Program “NASA’s Astrobiology Program addresses three fundamental questions: How does life begin and evolve? Is there life […]
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Organics on Mars
Mars Phoenix Findings Help Explain Viking Lander Results “Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 […]
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Astrobiology Update
NASA Announces Wednesday Media Teleconference About Search For Extraterrestrial Life “NASA will hold a news media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 28, to discuss the status of agency-sponsored […]
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Pandora Could Exist
Avatar’s Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like […]
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More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published (Update)
New Study Adds to Finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite, NASA “Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 […]
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More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published
Origins of magnetite nanocrystals in Martian meteorite ALH84001, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 73, Issue 21, 1 November 2009, Pages 6631-6677 “We conclude that the vast majority of the nanocrystal […]
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Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Is Ignoring
Keith’s note: “Avatar“, a film by former NASA Advisory Committee member James Cameron, will debut across the planet on 18 December. Widely hailed as “ground breaking” the film may well […]
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Government-sponsored SETI — In The 1920's
Prepare for Contact, Letters of Note “Here’s a 1924 telegram from then Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Edward W. Eberle, instructing all Naval stations to monitor the airwaves for any […]
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Antarctic Analogs For Extraterrestrial Environments
Diving Through A Microbial Landscape in Lake Untersee, Antarctica “There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. […]