SETI public: Charles Townes - The Nobel Laureate Who Fathered Optical SETI

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Science/Astronomy:

* The Summer of Mars: What You'll See, How to Observe
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_observing_030613.html

As regular readers of SPACE.com may already know, this summer Mars will come closer to Earth than at any time in tens of thousands of years. The planet will arrive at opposition to the Sun on Aug. 28, when it will rise at sunset and set at sunrise, as seen from Earth. This opposition occurs less than two days before Mars passes through the perihelion point of its orbit, when it is closest to the Sun.

* Charles Townes: The Nobel Laureate Who 'Fathered' Optical SETI
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/charles_townes_030613.html

Father's Day came one week early to the SETI community this year as Dr. Frank Drake, 'father' of modern SETI, presented an award bearing his name to Dr. Charles Townes, Nobel laureate, inventor of the laser, and 'father' of optical SETI.

* Image of the Day: History? Or the Future?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/image_of_day_030613.html

NASA has no firm plans, but there is hope, a fair amount of clamor, and good reasons to go back to the Moon.

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* Preparing for Contact: Lessons from the Past
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