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| Dust-busting, Lunar Style |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/26/07 |
| Summary: As NASA makes plans to send humans back to the moon, this time to live and work for extended periods of time, one of the most vexing problems they may be faced with is dust. To explore the potential problems, the NASA Engineering and Safety Center held a Lunar Dust Workshop. |
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| What Lies Beneath |
| Topic: Mars |
03/19/07 |
| Summary: There's a lot of ice beneath the surface of Mars, and some believe there could be liquid water as well. NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft are now using ground-penetrating radar to peek under the martian soil. In this interview, Jeff Plaut discusses the latest findings of ESA´s MARSIS radar. |
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| Modeling Other Earths |
| Topic: New Planets |
02/01/07 |
| Summary: Of the more than 200 extrasolar planets found so far, most are not rocky worlds like the Earth. That doesn´t mean Earths are rare – we just don´t have the technological ability to detect their subtle signatures. In this interview, Barrie Jones discusses why astrobiologists can expect to find many Earth-like planets someday. |
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| Radio Astrobiology: Intelligent Forms |
| Topic: Alien Life |
01/22/07 |
| Summary: Welcome to Radio Astrobiology, the podcast of Astrobiology Magazine. Join us as Simon Conway Morris discusses the forms life may take as it becomes increasingly complex and intelligent. |
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| Radio Astrobiology: Considering Convergence |
| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
01/18/07 |
| Summary: Welcome to Radio Astrobiology, the podcast of Astrobiology Magazine. Join us as Simon Conway Morris discusses how convergent evolution has affected the development of life on Earth, and perhaps elsewhere in the universe. |
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| Primordial Stone Soup |
| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
01/08/07 |
| Summary: Stromatolites may look like stones, but these structures are created by communities of microoganisms. In this interview, Janet Siefert describes how modern stromatolites can help us learn more about ancient life on Earth, and possibly even life on other worlds. |
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| How Can We Find Alien Life? |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/28/06 |
| Summary: At the Astrobiology Science Conference last March, Astrobiology Magazine organized a debate about alien life. In the final part of this seven-part series, Astrobiology Magazine´s Henry Bortman asks how we should search for life "as we don´t know it." |
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| Piecing Together Life's Potential |
| Topic: Mars |
11/15/06 |
| Summary: In this interview, Carol Stoker describes what the Phoenix Lander can expect to find when it lands in the martian northern plains. She also explains why astrobiologists have such high hopes for finding the signs of life there. |
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| Seeking Out Meteorites |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
11/06/06 |
| Summary: In this interview, Monica Grady talks about hunting for meteorites on the moon in order to learn more about the ancient Earth. She also explains why it took so long for us to find a meteorite originating from Mars. |
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| Bacterial Intelligence |
| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
10/12/06 |
| Summary: Bacteria may not have brains, but they are intelligent. So says Lynn Margulis, co-author of Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. To mark the 20th anniversary of the book´s publication, Astrobiology Magazine spoke with Margulis, who laid out the evidence for bacterial intelligence. |
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