From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 07:35:15 PST
>From: "Astrobiology Magazine"<astronaut_at_astrobio.net>
>To: ljk4_at_msn.com
>Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine
>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:34:28 -0800
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>Licancabur Ascent
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1805.html
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>For the fourth year in a row, a team of scientists has traveled up into the
>Andes mountains in Bolivia to study the life forms - mostly microbes - that
>inhabit some of the highest lakes in the world. These high lakes offer
>researchers an opportunity to study life in an extreme environment on Earth
>that is in some ways like conditions on Mars. Astrobiology Magazine is
>posting the next in a series of log entries from the expedition leader,
>Nathalie Cabrol, on the eve of the team's ascent.
>
>Auroras Common on Mars
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1804.html
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>Auroras similar to Earth's Northern Lights appear to be common on Mars,
>according to physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, who have
>analyzed six years' worth of data from the Mars Global Surveyor.
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>Long-Distance Troubleshooting
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1803.html
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>Japanese officials are struggling to fix a horde of problems plaguing the
>Hayabusa space mission in time to begin its journey back to Earth with or
>without a package of specimens that were supposed to have been collected
>from the surface of asteroid Itokawa late last month.
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>Swarming for Success
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1802.html
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>Dr. Penelope Boston and Dr. Steven Dubowsky are working to develop "hopping
>microbots" capable of exploring hazardous terrain, including underground
>caves. If the project pans out, hopping microbots may some day be sent to
>search for life below the surface of Mars. In Part II of this interview,
>Dr. Boston talks about the swarm-like behavior of large groups of microbots
>that enables them to perform sophisticated research tasks.
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>Thursday, December 15
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