News, Research and Announcements for July 2006
31 July 2006
Mars' dust storms may produce peroxide snow
Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere"
Stardust@home launches Aug. 1
27 July 2006
Cassini finds lakes on Titan's arctic region
NASA reports that methane drizzles on Saturn's moon, Titan
Searching for aliens
26 July 2006
Protons from the Sun: what you can't see can hurt you in space
25 July 2006
Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
Mars Rover team weary but hanging in after 900 sols
Molecular evidence for deep evolutionary roots of bilaterality in animal development
New CO
2
data invert current ice-age theory
Scientists to sequence neanderthal DNA
Titan's pebbles "seen" by Huygens radio
24 July 2006
Lakes on Titan
Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet
Earth dropped from NASA mission statement
NASA vision plans doomed, space advocacy group reports
Planet-forming disks might put the brakes on stars
21 July 2006
Darwin for all seasons
Sunning frozen soil
20 July 2006
Is SETI barking up the wrong tree
?
Project Orion to follow Apollo to the Moon
19 July 2006
Cassini reveals an Earth-like land on Titan
Cassini reveals Titan's Xanadu region to be an Earth-like land
NAI Newsletter
18 July 2006
Genesis 1 carrying a NASA experiment
Is Proxima Centauri flying solo
?
The perils of being huge: why large creatures go extinct
17 July 2006
Taking soil science to outer space
Team envisions exploring Mars with mini probes
The first star: things heated up quickly, scientists say
14 July 2006
NASA marks 30th anniversary of Mars Viking Mission
Scientists gaining clearer picture of comet makeup and origin
Spitzer spots building blocks of life in supernova remnant
UFOs: true believers and truth seekers conference begins
13 July 2006
NASA to test automated drilling rig in Arctic crater in Mars analog mission
11 July 2006
Controlling robots that search for Mars life
Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day, UF study finds
Spirit spies meteorites
?
10 July 2006
Clemson space research explores bone loss
7 July 2006
Enceladus exudes an air of mystery
6 July 2006
Deliquescence in the Atacama
NASA advised to revamp Mars plans
NASA uses undersea lab to prep for future space exploration
NAI Newsletter
5 July 2006
Orbiting space shield could help to image Earth-like planets, says CU study
Oxygen trapped in Europa’s icy surface may offer clues to moon’s habitability
2 July 2006
Gravity is bone glue
?
1 July 2006
A reexamination of the Sudbury landing
Acid saline lake systems give clues about past environments and the search for life on Mars
Impact melt sheet formation on Mars and its implication for hydrothermal systems and exobiology