| Aviation Week on Martian Potential for Life |
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| Written by pat | |
| Sunday, 03 August 2008 06:24 | |
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There's no way to tell if Aviation Week is getting cranked, so this is offered with a caveat emptor. I've pulled a few quotes from the article. I assume somebody has a joke ready to go about Bush's reaction. The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the "potential for life" on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week & Space Technology.
The other data not discussed openly yet are far more "provocative," Phoenix officials say. In fact, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory science team for the MECA wet-chemistry instrument that made the findings was kept out of a July 31 news conference at the University of Arizona Phoenix control center. The goal was to prevent them from being asked any questions that could reveal information before NASA is ready to make an announcement, sources say. ... The Bush Administration's Presidential Science Advisor's office, however, has been briefed on the new information that NASA hopes to release as early as mid August. It is possible an announcement would not come until September, to allow for additional analysis. That will depend upon the latest results still being analyzed from the spacecraft's organic oven and soil chemistry laboratories. ... MECA's two microscopes do, however, have the resolution to detect bacteria--which would be life. Sources, however, say the microscopes have not detected bacteria. ... It is intriguing that MECA could have found anything more positive than that, but NASA and the University of Arizona are taking steps to prevent word from leaking out on the nature of the discovery made during MECA's second soil test, in which water from Earth was automatically stirred with Martian soil. |
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At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan
Starting the week of Nov. 23rd, 2009, Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's long-time collaborator and wife, will be sharing what it was like to take 20 trips around the sun with Carl Sagan.
Shot at their home in Ithaca, NY over the course of four days, the podcast will give the world a peek at what those years together were like both professionally and personally.
Photo credit: TheNatureOfExistence.com