News, Research and Announcements

News, Research and Announcements for October 2006
31 October 2006 Minerals and mountains on Mars The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization–gas chromatography–MS and their implications for the Viking results 30 October 2006 A new target for Deep Impact Mars Science Laboratory shakedown in the high Arctic NASA announces discovery program selections Sci-fi life support The Mars Underground 28 October 2006 Sick Earth? 27 October 2006 Europe goes searching for rocky planets NASA and SETI explorers search for planetary evolution clues on Earth 26 October 2006 Astrobiology Volume 6, Number 5 Harnessing asteroids and comets to travel the solar system Martian poles in the Swiss Alps The astrobiology primer 25 October 2006 Preparations continue for manned expedition to Mars one day Study fuels debate of life on Mars 24 October 2006 C2D: before planets and life, there are stars and disks ESA to take part in Russian Mars experiment Late Archean rise of aerobic microbial ecosystems Martian life could have evaded detection by Viking Landers Podcast: Getting started in amateur astronomy 23 October 2006 Cydonia's "Face on Mars" in 3D animation How safe is travel to Mars? Space radiation a serious concern for NASA's exploration vision Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures With NASA budget cuts looming, SETI eyes private funding 22 October 2006 The star, the dwarf and the planet 20 October 2006 Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diversity crustal biome Mineral discovery explains Mars' landscape Pass the hat for alien-hunting Russian scientists warn of asteroid impact hazard in 2035 19 October 2006 Carl Sagan Center formed to study life in the Universe Mars may be cozy place for hardy microbes NASA and NOAA announce ozone hole is a double record breaker Otherworldly bacteria discovered two miles down 18 October 2006 NAI Newsletter New images dampen hope for water ice on Moon Planet-finding by numbers 17 October 2006 Far more than a meteor killed dinos 16 October 2006 Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth Mars Express and the story of water on Mars Mars: time for a new chronology? NASA orbiter reveals new details of Mars, young and old 13 October 2006 New telescope will search for asteroids and map out the universe Systemic planet hunting 12 October 2006 Bacterial intelligence (interview with Lynn Margulis, part 4) Combing the cosmos at high speed: the Allen Telescope Array NASA's Spitzer sees day and night on exotic world Planet hunters wanted to help astronomers in the search for new worlds UA researchers find smallest cellular genome 11 October 2006 Some super-Earths form in super snowstorms 10 October 2006 Asteroids, comets, and planets: cut from the same cloth? Double impact may explain why Venus has no moon Human Mars missions face unsolved technical challenges 9 October 2006 Bacteria don't have species (interview with Lynn Margulis, part 3) Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars 8 October 2006 Polar bugs in your backyard 7 October 2006 New Bush space policy unveiled, stresses U.S. freedom of action 6 October 2006 NASA's Mars rover and orbiter team examines Victoria Crater Spacecraft sees Mars rover from orbit 5 October 2006 NASA seeks undergrads to experiment in lunar and zero gravity Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge We are all microbes (interview with Lynn Margulins, part 2) 4 October 2006 ESA’s Planck satellite builds on Nobel-prize-winning science Hubble finds extrasolar planets far across galaxy Supernova radioisotopes show sun was born in star cluster, scientists say 3 October 2006 Are there oceans on Neptune? Biological formation of ethane and propane in the deep marine subsurface Geomicrobiology Journal Vol. 23, No. 6 (Deep subsurface microbial communities) NASA scientist shares Nobel Prize for physics Planets prefer safe neighborhoods 2 October 2006 CRISM opens its eyes New photos from NASA orbiter's HiRISE camera detail diverse martian terrain 1 October 2006 Applications of a rapid endospore viability assay for monitoring UV inactivation and characterizing Arctic ice cores Microbial planet (interview with Lynn Margulis, part 1)

31 October 2006