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| The Martian Frozen Sea |
| Topic: Mars |
03/14/05 |
| Summary: At the recent European Space Agency's Mars Express conference, scientists announced they had found a frozen sea on the martian equator. John Murray, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University in the UK, is lead author on the paper to be published in the journal Nature. Astrobiology Magazine editor Leslie Mullen sat down with Murray to discuss the new finding. |
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| Sounding Out Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
02/28/05 |
| Summary: After a year's delay, the MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter will soon be deployed. In this interview, Jeffrey Plaut of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory describes how the radar instrument could uncover how much, if any, liquid water lies hidden below the surface of Mars. |
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| Something Bigger Than Life |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/16/05 |
| Summary: The next decade offers unique chances to do what might be called, comparative planetology. How is the Earth different from its neighbors and why? NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Directorate indicates that to do this hard work, the motivation follows from something bigger than life. |
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| Moved by Science in Motion |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/14/05 |
| Summary: Al Diaz is the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate of NASA - meaning the highest official solely focused on science at NASA. On the day after the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan, Diaz talked about astrobiology's central role within NASA. |
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| Radio Free Earth |
| Topic: Alien Life |
02/02/05 |
| Summary: In Part Three in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses the limits of radio searches for extraterrestrial life. |
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| Templating Ourselves |
| Topic: Alien Life |
01/31/05 |
| Summary: In Part Two in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses the human tendency of being self-centered, and how that can shape our reality and cloud our vision of the truth. |
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| A Glow in the Martian Night |
| Topic: Mars |
01/27/05 |
| Summary: Like Earth and Venus, the night side of Mars emits a subtle glow. In this interview with Astrobiology Magazine, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Principal Investigator for the Mars Express SPICAM instrument, explains what lights up the martian evening sky, and why our understanding of that process could aid future missions to Mars. |
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| The Origins Umbrella |
| Topic: Cosmic Evolution |
01/26/05 |
| Summary: In Part One in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", describes the origin and evolution of astrobiology and its public interpretations. |
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| Does Titan Rain Methane? |
| Topic: Titan |
01/25/05 |
| Summary: As director of the Planetary Science Laboratory in the University of Michigan College of Engineering, Professor Sushil Atreya discusses the fate of carbon-based transformations on Titan. In this initial interview, Atreya describes why methane on Mars means different things to what might be happening on Titan. |
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| Titanic Rainmaker |
| Topic: Titan |
01/23/05 |
| Summary: As part of the Cassini Imaging team studying the atmosphere on Saturn, NASA's Anthony Del Genio explained in this part of his interview, how to make sense of a moon potentially making methane rain. |
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