SETI public: Exploring Everything: An Astrobiologist's Life

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* Exploring Everything: An Astrobiologist's Life

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_astrobiologist_030313.html

'You don't have to go far to see extremeophiles here in northern California, Rocco Mancinelli, once told a crowd of astronomy lovers in a Bay Area lecture hall. People giggled. But Mancinelli wasn't talking extreme life styles or fashion; he was talking about microbes.

* Dark Spot on Jupiter Bigger than Famed Great Red Spot
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dark_spot_030313.html

For more than a century astronomers thought that the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large.

* Incredible Shrinking Planet May Become Liquid Lava World
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/shrinking_planet_030312.html

Orbiting very close to a Sun-like star, a huge, searing hot planet has been discovered to be rapidly losing mass. It might eventually be stripped entirely of its gas envelope, leaving behind a liquid core of lava.

* JPL Seeks Students, Teachers for Mars Mission
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/athena_internship_030313.html

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is accepting applications for the Athena Student Interns Program, giving high school teachers and students across the country a chance to participate in the Mars Exploration Rover mission set to launch this spring.

Astronotes: Clint Eastwood to Produce/Direct Neil Armstrong Bio-Flick

http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Hollywood industry bible Variety has reported that actor/director Clint Eastwood will produce and direct a biographical film of the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong for Warner Bros.

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