Tag: Astrobiology
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Symphonic SpaceFest: ‘Origins’ concert sets the Big Bang and astrobiology to music
An artist’s conception shows two “branes” colliding in multidimensional space, creating the Big Bang that gave rise to our own universe 13.8 billion years ago. (Animation by Deep Sky Studios) The Big Bang never looked, or sounded, so good: The piece de resistance for this week’s SpaceFest in Seattle is a symphonic review of 13.8…
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Cassini images just a taste of Enceladus flyby science return
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view as it neared icy Enceladus for its closest-ever dive past the moon’s active south polar region.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Days after a fleeting plunge through the icy plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is broadcasting tantalizing data back to Earth for scientists eager to address the moon’s…
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Looking for ET in the waters of Mars and Europa
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION India’s Mars Orbiter Mission captured this view of the red planet shortly after it arrived in 2014. Credit: ISRO The discovery of intermittent flows of liquid water on Mars, announced with great fanfare Monday, makes the red planet the leading candidate for the near-term discovery of extraterrestrial life…
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Mars mystery solved? Dark streaks linked to salty water trails
These dark streaks, shown flowing downhill in a false-color image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. (Credit: NASA / JPL / Univ. of Arizona) For years, scientists have puzzled over dark streaks that appear and disappear on the surface of Mars – and now they’re confident enough…
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Diverse destinations considered for new interplanetary probe
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft collected images for this montage of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io in 2007. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Goddard Space Flight Center Science teams from across the United States have submitted 28 proposals for missions to explore the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, touch the asteroid-like…