Space Forum / Space Science / July 2006

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/28jul_crashlanding.htm
Crash Landing on the Moon
NASA Science News
July 28, 2006

Wouldn't you just know it, that the first of the Venus EXPRESS 6
composite images as having been officially processed for delivering to
us village idiots the most eye-candy and otherwise contributed for our
investigative pleasure, whereas thus far such images are showing a

http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2006/Jul06/r072606
Pre-life molecules present in comets
University of Michigan News Release
July 21, 2006

Somebody mentioned to me a theory that Venus is a captured object. Does
this conjecture fit with orbital patterns or anything else?
It seems to me that Venusian heat levels are normal for a planet that
size, with Earth-like patterns being an exception -- due perhaps to the

-> Celebrate the Red Planet at the National Air and Space Museum!
-> Our closest neighbor in the Solar System
Mars our closest neighbour? Huh? Have they never heard of the moon,
Venus, Mercury, and the sun, all of which are *on average* closer to

July 14, 2006
Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1237

July 19, 2006
Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726/1237

http://www.esa.int/spacecraftops/ESOC-Article-fullArticle_par-40_1151301927523.html
Controlling robots that search for Mars life
European Space Agency
11 July 2006

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/mer-20060710.html
Possible Meteorites in the Martian Hills
July 10, 2006
[This vertical mosaic of images shows a slope draped with ripples of

Hi, I've read several of your messages, and I have my own now...
If you drilled a hole down to the core, would the lava squirt out the
hole?

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Exploring Southward - sol 531-537, August 02, 2005:
Opportunity continued its trek south toward "Erebus Crater," making 61
meters (200 feet) of progress over two sols of driving. The rover is

Ruth Marlaire                           June 27, 2006
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650-604-4709 or 604-9000
e-mail: rmarlaire@mail.arc.nasa.gov

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Full Plate for Opportunity - sol 859-866, June 30,
2006:
Opportunity is healthy. Opportunity has had a full plate with a new