From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 12:47:04 UTC
>From: "Astrobiology Magazine"<astronaut_at_astrobio.net>
>To: ljk4_at_msn.com
>Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:33:23 -0700
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>Deciphering Mars: The Future
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1724.html
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>Dr. Jack Farmer of Arizona State University is an astrobiologist whose
>attention is often focused on Mars. Farmer is a longtime member of a
>community of scientists working to understand both the geologic history of
>Mars and the planet's potential to support life. At the recent Earth System
>Processes II conference, Farmer gave a talk on the current state of
>understanding about Mars: what we know and what we'd like to know. In this,
>the third and final part of a three-part series, he outlines the options
>for future Mars exploration.
>
>Pop Goes the Star
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1723.html
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>What did the very first stars look like? How did they live and die?
>Astronomers have ideas, but no proof. The first stars are so distant and
>formed so long ago that they are invisible to our best telescopes.
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>Spying Spokes
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1722.html
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>Delighted scientists on the Cassini imaging team will be breaking out the
>champagne in celebration of the first Cassini sighting of spokes, the
>ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's Voyager
>spacecraft 25 years ago.
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>Changing Face of Mars
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1721.html
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>New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand
>dune. That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from
>the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began
>its ninth year in orbit around Mars. Boulders tumbling down a Martian slope
>left tracks that weren't there two years ago. New impact craters formed
>since the 1970s suggest changes to age-estimating models. And for three
>Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south
>pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change
>in progress.
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>Monday, September 26
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