News, Research and Announcements

News, Research and Announcements for November 2005
30 November 2005 Mars studies find buried crater and signs of past water Neptune-size planet orbiting common star hints at many more New view of Titan: strong winds, soft ground and lightning Readying for the Ninth International Mars Society Convention Scientists find Huygens probe landing site, release new animation of Titan landing The dwarf that carries a world Tide out on Titan? A soft solid surface for Huygens 29 November 2005 NASA rover helps reveal possible secrets of martian life Scientific American 50 28 November 2005 High lakes 2005 Space aliens: the "mother" of all hallucinations? 27 November 2005 China hopes to men on the Moon within 15 years 26 November 2005 Hayabusa: spacecraft lands on asteroid for second time and snatches sample Just keeps going and going... Looking for alien intelligence in the computational universe 24 November 2005 Deadline approaching for student Mars rover competition The dream palace of the space cadets 23 November 2005 Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft lands successfully on asteroid Private spacecraft developer settles on new design 22 November 2005 MIT researchers visit Mars on Earth Seasonal red planet: NASA's Spirit rover completes one full martian year University to teach "intelligent design" as myth 21 November 2005 Bacteria which sense the Earth's magnetic field Mars rover comes alive with Hollywood special effects Nauseating news about spacesickness Private sector, low-cost lunar plan unveiled The mothman adventures 19 November 2005 Darwin wins one fight as another begins 18 November 2005 Darwin gets his due Mars-bound NASA craft tweaks course, passes halfway point Mars flight project internships at JPL New view of early Earth: a habitable place Space life sciences: aircraft and space radiation environment, Advances in Space Research, 36(9) There was no such thing as hell on Earth Vatican astronomer: intelligent design is not science 17 November 2005 Education nation: SETI scientists make the rounds Heterogeneous Hadean hafnium: evidence of continental crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga Mars Express radar data analysis is on the move SETI sets its sights on M dwarfs Space life sciences: gravity-related effects on plants and spacefight and man-made environments on biological systems, Advances in Space Research, 36(7) X-files opened: the National Security Agency's UFO investigations unearthed 15 November 2005 A sensitive search for SO₂ in the martian atmosphere: implications for seepage and origin of methane Development genes evolve new functions Direct detection and characterization of extrasolar planets: the Mariotti space interferometer Kansas, where "ignorant" is the new "educated" Satellite observations of atmospheric SO₂ from volcanic eruptions during the time-period of 1996–2002 The global variation of CH₄ and CO as seen by SCIAMACHY Tomatosphere: tomato seeds in students' hands, after 18 months in space Water could stay liquid on Mars 14 November 2005 EANA (European Astrobiology Network Association) Budapest blog 12 November 2005 Lichen cosmonauts? Springtime in the abyss 11 November 2005 Alabama school board votes to keep calling evolution "controversial" Alien invaders: preventing Earth microbes from contaminating Mars Clay material may have acted as "primordial womb" for first organic molecules Darwin on display: museum to showcase evolution amid controversy Supporting science by communicating it Tapestry of life: lateral transfers of heritable elements (colloquium announcement) What do we need to know to land on the moon again? 10 November 2005 Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids Possible solar origin of the 1,470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model Saving the planet (or how science education is good for everyone's future) 9 November 2005 Behind the controversy: how evolution works Eyes in the ocean Lichen survives in space Pennsylvania voters reject "intelligent design" 8 November 2005 Kansas OKs anti-evolution teaching rule Kansas school board votes against science 7 November 2005 NASA Dawn asteroid mission told to "stand down" Simulations show liquid water could exist on Mars Titan's rocks of ice 4 November 2005 The onset of planet formation in brown dwarf disks 3 November 2005 Asteroid Apophis: dealing with Earth's future troublemaker Public split on alien invaders and spooky specters Titan: greenhouse and anti-greenhouse Ultrasound – a diagnostic tool for space, sports and more 2 November 2005 Darwin's natural selection still at work in humans 1 November 2005 Advances in Space Research Vol. 36, No. 2, Astrobiology: steps toward origin of life and Titan before Cassini Community composition of a hypersaline endoevaporitic microbial mat Comparison of microbial community compositions of two subglacial environments reveals a possible role for microbes in chemical weathering processes Desert methane: Implications for life detection on Mars Did life come from another world? Differentiation of spores of Bacillus subtilis grown in different media by elemental characterization using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry Four climate regimes on a land planet with wet surface: effects of obliquity change and implications for ancient Mars Hydration state of zeolites, clays, and hydrated salts under present-day martian surface conditions: can hydrous minerals account for Mars Odyssey observations of near-equatorial water-equivalent hydrogen? Martian dust major risk to manned mission Modeling of long-term fossil fuel consumption shows 14.5-degree hike in Earth's temperature NAI Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 13 Possibilities for methanogenic life in liquid methane on the surface of Titan Putative transposases conserved in Exiguobacterium isolates from ancient Siberian permafrost and from contemporary surface habitats Young (late Amazonian), near-surface, ground ice features near the equator, Athabasca Valles, Mars

30 November 2005