Space Forum / Space Science / October 2006

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Was there water on Mars long enough for the origination of life?
By Susan Trulove
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Where can I buy globes of the other planets? I can find globes of Earth,
Moon, Mars and one online store features Venus, but what about all the other
planets? Does anyone know where these can be bought?
/steen

Contacts:
Douglas Isbell/Robert Wilson
Office of Public Affairs and Educational Outreach
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)

While researching for my book on solar system exploration two questions
have surfaced:
1) In some articles the vidicon sensor of Voyager 2 was said to be 50
per cent more sensitive than that of its sister. Was it just by chance

-> The true description of the Nov 8th event that is acceptable to
-> heliocentric astronomers is that the faster Mercury,in an inner orbital
-> circuit,is overtaking the slower moving orbital motion of the Earth.
That happens every 116 days, the interval between one inferior

Viking landers may have found Martian life after all.
22:19 23 October 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Mark Buchanan and David L Chandler

The crater on the rim of Victoria crater on the right side of this
image very definitely gives the impression of a volcanic crater rather
than an impact crater:
Victoria Crater on Mars.

CERES - Ceres Experimental Reconnaissance and Exploration Spacecraft.
We're talking about a small planet out there, with lots of water.
Dawn is great, but we need a real Ceres Reconnaissance Orbiter.
We can get it down tight, and then map it to the square foot.

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-> The famous 'face' - actually a remnant massif - was first observed in a
-> photo taken on 25 July 1976 by the American Viking 1 orbiter. Shortly
-> afterwards, a NASA press release said the formation "resembles a human
-> head." At the time, NASA scientists had already ...

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMINCO7BTE_index_0.html
Cydonia's 'Face on Mars' in 3D animation
European Space Agency
23 October 2006

Here's a link for a new (to me) product on the market -- Venusian,
Earthite and Martian globes that are made from laser altimetry data at
exaggerated scales:
http://www.reliefglobe.com

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR
Image of the Week
October 17, 2006
The following new image taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on

Due to the impossibilityl of a massive bombardment period creating the
lunar maria all at the same time, I will propose the theory that the
brecchia used to date these impacts instead show the time of actual
lunar formation.

I am looking for a timeline of the Voyager 2 Saturn encounter, showing
the times and distances of the main events (satellite approaches, ring
plane crossing, occultations etc). Anybody has one?
I have tried looking in Morrison's "Missions to Saturn" and in the