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Might there be Microbes on the Surface of Mars?

... who took the idea of Martian canals seriously. See the NASA page: The 'Canali' and the First Martians Gradual accumulation of ... Search for water in the mars past Most NASA scientists were convinced by Lovelock's arguments and the data from Viking ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 11:05am - 0 attachments

Will We Meet ET Microbes On Mars? Why We Should Care Deeply About Them - Like Tigers

... Meltzer in his "When Biospheres Collide" - a history of NASA'S Planetary Protection Programs" put it like this: "One of the most ... of Terence Johnson, who has played a major role in many of NASA's robotic missions, including serving as the project scientist for the ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 10:59am - 0 attachments

Our Spacecraft Could Look Straight At an Extraterrestrial Microbe - And Not See a Thing!

... away by the dust storms. Yellowknife Bay (NASA) Curiosity has found traces of what seem to be organics in this ... on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 (Image credit NASA) Philae will test for chirality. All DNA spirals in a clockwise ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 10:49am - 0 attachments

Where Should we Send our Rovers to Mars to Unravel Mystery of Origin of First Living Cells?

... to find ice.  It's the prime target for the NASA siesmic investigator mission in 2016, because the ground is so free of ... ALH84001 - famously the meteorite which was announced by NASA as showing signs of life from Mars. But was later downgraded to ambiguous ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 10:39am - 0 attachments

John Glenn, Astronaut, and Senator dead at 95. A Milennial Perspective

John Glenn one of the first seven NASA Astronauts and a former Senator of many terms has died at the age of ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 8 2016 - 4:20pm - 0 attachments

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models!

... to estimate the present-day sea ice edge, rather than NASA Team algorithm (Meier et al., 2013a; Peng et al., 2013). From this, we ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 23 2016 - 9:46pm - 0 attachments

As Philae Awakes - Where Might Life Hide In Our Solar System?

... , William Bains Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life - Peter Ward Weird Life: ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 29 2016 - 3:30pm - 0 attachments

Space Is Not Empty, So What Does It Sound Like? You Can Help Science Find Out

... do we care about them? Some of NASA’s satellites around Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech Well, in Earth’s “magnetosphere” – ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 24 2016 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Dear Mr. Trump, Please Can We Study Our Climate?

... of many nations would be proud to be associated with NASA's proud acheivments via their nation's share of the essential tax dollars. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 22 2016 - 12:32pm - 0 attachments

Mars Is Nothing Like The New World - Easier To Grow Your Tomatoes On Mount Everest

... the same design as one that can protect you on the Moon. NASA Ames is developing a dual purpose spacesuit that will do for both cases, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 14 2016 - 8:42am - 0 attachments