Space Forum / Space Science / December 2006

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-152
NASA Mars Team Teaches Old Rovers New Tricks to Kick Off Year Four
December 28, 2006
NASA's twin Mars rovers, nearing the third anniversary of their

You should read this report in its entirety:
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~kaufman/ppt/G436/G436_PDF_library/Squyres05.pdf
George

It's a fair guess that the "spiders" and suchlike at the south pole of
Mars --- see http://tinyurl.com/yy37vp   ---  indicate that carbon
dioxide icecaps tend to churn up the underlying terrain. This material,
after being moved upwards by the supercool equivalent of glaciation, is

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They stole...borrowed my idea dammit <g>
Earlier this year....and in many posts I wrote...
Just like Viking, just like the AHL meteorite......a tie... between
living and non-living explanations. Exactly inconclusive for life

What is the Mars equivalent of our Pole Star?  In other works, plotted
against the celestial sphere, what is the alignment of the Martian
axis?
Jack

-> Here's a wild idea.  WMAP is at L2.  Its antenna has a big enough beam
-> to cover the moon as well, and it's visible from the back side of the
-> moon for about 2 weeks at a time.
It's visible from any given point on the moon (nearside or farside) for

More spheres, just like at the Opportunity site, and with
single holes. I don't care what they say, simple mineral
concretions formed in a wet substrate does NOT fully
explain these things. Spherical concretions on earth

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM4IKQJNVE_index_0.html
Europe looks forward to COROT launch
European Space Agency
19 December 2006

http://planetary.org/about/press/releases/2006/1213_Planetary_Society_Offers_500
00_Prize.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 13. 2006
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-> Yes, many people believe the Earth goes around the Sun, even so, few of them
-> are able to actually prove it, when asked. Even in this modern day and age,  
-> most people are still as dumb as they ever were!! They believe things  
-> because others tell them so and seldom try ...

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/1214enceladus.html
Scientists propose alternate model for plume on Enceladus
James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor
217-244-1073; kloeppel@uiuc.edu <mailto:kloeppel@uiuc.edu>

The famous Viking life experiments provided perplexing results in
regard to life on Mars. They gave "positive" indications but they were
different from the ones expected for Earth life. Because a separate
experiment designed to detect organic molecules called the gas

CASSINI'S INFRARED CAMERA SEES TALL MOUNTAINS ON SATURN'S MOON TITAN
(From University Communications, 520-621-1877)
- Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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-> We know mountains are the result of converging plates, which are driven
-> by convection from heat from inside.
*Some* mountains are formed that way. Others are produced by vulcanism.
On other worlds, mountains might be "wrinkles" in the crust, formed