|
|
| |
|
| Titan in a Test Tube |
| Topic: Titan |
03/01/04 |
| Summary: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has one of the most promising chemical laboratories for producing complex organic molecules. Experiments conducted in preparation for this summer's mission to probe Titan's astmosphere have tried to simulate its cold, prebiotic soup. |
|
|
|
| Design Space, Nothing But Net |
| Topic: Missions |
02/25/04 |
| Summary: Astrobiology Magazine had the chance to talk with Dr. Vint Cerf, founding father of the internet, about his project to wire the solar system. Called the Interplanetary Internet, the study is to design a deep space communications network protocol. |
|
|
|
| View to the Edge of No-Return |
| Topic: Cosmic Evolution |
02/18/04 |
| Summary: Ever imagine making a telescope that was fifty light-years long, and could see into the mouth of the most dense objects known, a black-hole. Astrobiology Magazine talks to astronomer Hayley Bignall about what it takes to see into the center of an active galaxy. |
|
|
|
| How to Wind a Martian Watch |
| Topic: Mars |
02/09/04 |
| Summary: Time keeping on two sides of another planet turns out to be a challenge, at least when calibrated from our own rhythms. On Earth, it took thousands of years for navigators to get terrestrial time on some reliable global standards. But when not on our globe, the familiar clock ticks need a sun calibration. |
|
|
|
|
| Could Opportunity Find Life on Mars? |
| Topic: Mars |
02/04/04 |
| Summary: Andrew Knoll is a member of the Mars Exploration Rover science team and Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. His research focuses on ancient rocks on Earth; he studies how well they preserve evidence of ancient terrestrial life. |
|
|
|
|
| From a River in Spain to a Crater on Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
02/02/04 |
| Summary: Andrew Knoll is a member of the Mars Exploration Rover science team and Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. His research focuses on ancient rocks on Earth; he studies how well they preserve evidence of ancient terrestrial life. |
|
|
|
|
| James Cameron's Mars Reference Design |
| Topic: Mars |
01/30/04 |
| Summary: Academy Award winning film director, James Cameron, takes a tour through a human mission to Mars. His commissioned renderings of the Mars Design Reference Mission illustrate how a quarter billion miles away, a crew and cargo will meet up to build and fuel their future habitat. |
|
|
|
|
| State of the Union |
| Topic: Missions |
01/20/04 |
| Summary: If science communications in astrobiology is about researchers sharing their results, the audience for new findings may well turn out to be a surprising finding in itself. Dr. John Horack, one of the principal internet architects for how a Webby-award winning NASA site found its audience. |
|
|
|
| Best Laid Plans, Men and Machines |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
01/19/04 |
| Summary: John Logsdon recently served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board for NASA, and continues to shape views of both space history and tomorrow's policy. Astrobiology Magazine had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Logsdon about exploration initiatives. |
|
|
|
| Tapping the Grid: Interview with David Anderson |
| Topic: Alien Life |
01/12/04 |
| Summary: Project leader for the SETI@home program, Dr. David Anderson, talks about the history and challenges of running the world's largest virtual supercomputer. The project searches for anomalies in radio telescope data, as interesting indicators of what might be non-natural radio sources, or qualify as communication. |
|
|
|
|
|
