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Old October 4th 12, 04:27 AM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
Jonathan
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...0P2956M2M1.JPG



s





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Old October 5th 12, 12:37 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...0P2956M2M1.JPG


Gee.

For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! LOL !

--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Home is where, when you go there, they *have* to let you in."
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Old October 6th 12, 02:50 AM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!


"Painius" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...0P2956M2M1.JPG


Gee.

For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! LOL !



And they aren't graduate assistant wet-dreams anymore.
But mainstream researchers, and from all over.

The Opportunity Rover has shown everyone a vast potential
ecosystem has and does exist on Mars. So vast and habitable
the assumption is now that microbial life...should have evolved.

Vast stretches of the northern half of Mars have water ice
levels as high as 60% just a few meters below the surface.
And the temperatures rise as you go deeper, along with
more protection from solar radiation. Combined with
the salty soil, there should be a vast subsurface layer with
almost ideal conditions for microbrial life.

The only surprise now would be if life ...didn't evolve.

Look at this MSL rover image from just the other day.
At the very upper right is the mountain it's approaching.
See all those fine layers, one after another? Those are all layers
of sediment, each one formed on the bottom of a body of water
now eroded away and exposed as with the Grand Canyon.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...CAM00440M_.JPG

And the band of dark soil that always seem to follow
the very same outline that a body of water would follow
were it there. Hinting that water ice exists below the
dark soil.

s


--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Home is where, when you go there, they *have* to let you in."



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Old October 6th 12, 07:27 AM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:50:56 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


"Painius" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...0P2956M2M1.JPG


Gee.

For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! LOL !



And they aren't graduate assistant wet-dreams anymore.
But mainstream researchers, and from all over.

The Opportunity Rover has shown everyone a vast potential
ecosystem has and does exist on Mars. So vast and habitable
the assumption is now that microbial life...should have evolved.

Vast stretches of the northern half of Mars have water ice
levels as high as 60% just a few meters below the surface.
And the temperatures rise as you go deeper, along with
more protection from solar radiation. Combined with
the salty soil, there should be a vast subsurface layer with
almost ideal conditions for microbrial life.

The only surprise now would be if life ...didn't evolve.

Look at this MSL rover image from just the other day.
At the very upper right is the mountain it's approaching.
See all those fine layers, one after another? Those are all layers
of sediment, each one formed on the bottom of a body of water
now eroded away and exposed as with the Grand Canyon.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...CAM00440M_.JPG


Some of those rocks in the foreground remind me of shells on a beach!

And the band of dark soil that always seem to follow
the very same outline that a body of water would follow
were it there. Hinting that water ice exists below the
dark soil.


It will be very interesting to explore the dark recesses below the
surface of planet Mars!

--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Friends need no explanations; enemies will not believe you."
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Old October 6th 12, 02:35 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Oct 6, 2:27*am, Painius wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:50:56 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:

"Painius" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....


"What the hell is astrobiology"?


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...905EFFAL00P295....


Gee.


For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! *LOL !


And they aren't graduate assistant wet-dreams anymore.
But mainstream researchers, and from all over.


The Opportunity Rover has shown everyone a vast potential
ecosystem has and does exist on Mars. So vast and habitable
the assumption is now that microbial life...should have evolved.


Vast stretches of the northern half of Mars have water ice
levels as high as 60% just a few meters below the surface.
And the temperatures rise as you go deeper, along with
more protection from solar radiation. Combined with
the salty soil, *there should be a vast subsurface layer with
almost ideal conditions for microbrial life.


The only surprise now would be if life ...didn't evolve.


Look at this MSL rover image from just the other day.
At the very upper right is the mountain it's approaching.
See all those fine layers, one after another? Those are all layers
of sediment, each one formed on the bottom of a body of water
now *eroded away and exposed as with the Grand Canyon.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima.../ods/surface/s...


Some of those rocks in the foreground remind me of shells on a beach!

And the band of dark soil that always seem to follow
the very same outline that a body of water would follow
were it there. Hinting that water ice exists below the
dark soil.


It will be very interesting to explore the dark recesses below the
surface of planet Mars!

--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Friends need no explanations; enemies will not believe you."- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


1.7 billion and no drill. Seeing and testing the top sand began long
time ago. Mafia NASA is not giving us a bang for tax bucks. TeBet.
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Old October 6th 12, 07:55 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Oct 3, 8:27*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
The 'Blueberry' Revolution!

Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstractshttp://www.aics-research.com/lectures/abscicon2004/index.html

To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstractshttp://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/

This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.

The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...905EFFAL00P295...

s


To any technologically advanced intelligence, those other too hot or
cold planets or even a given moon that's more extreme, is not a
limiting factor in their exploitation or possible hosting of evolution
on behalf of accommodating complex life.

Natural or directed panspermia is certainly another alternative worth
our considering as a possibility, even as having given life to Earth
that may have been among the most recent generation of cosmic places
to have received those spores of life.

http://groups.google.com/groups/search
http://translate.google.com/#
Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth Venus”
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Old October 6th 12, 08:10 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Oct 5, 6:50*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
"Painius" wrote in message

news








On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....


"What the hell is astrobiology"?


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...905EFFAL00P295....


Gee.


For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! *LOL !


And they aren't graduate assistant wet-dreams anymore.
But mainstream researchers, and from all over.

The Opportunity Rover has shown everyone a vast potential
ecosystem has and does exist on Mars. So vast and habitable
the assumption is now that microbial life...should have evolved.

Vast stretches of the northern half of Mars have water ice
levels as high as 60% just a few meters below the surface.
And the temperatures rise as you go deeper, along with
more protection from solar radiation. Combined with
the salty soil, *there should be a vast subsurface layer with
almost ideal conditions for microbrial life.

The only surprise now would be if life ...didn't evolve.

Look at this MSL rover image from just the other day.
At the very upper right is the mountain it's approaching.
See all those fine layers, one after another? Those are all layers
of sediment, each one formed on the bottom of a body of water
now *eroded away and exposed as with the Grand Canyon.http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima.../ods/surface/s...

And the band of dark soil that always seem to follow
the very same outline that a body of water would follow
were it there. Hinting that water ice exists below the
dark soil.

s


--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Home is where, when you go there, they *have* to let you in."


The almost naked surface of Mars isn't all that life worthy, not even
for accommodating much of the advanced technology that we can toss at
it. However, underground is certainly worth considering, just like on/
within our moon could be downright nifty for accommodating life as we
know it, and even way better yet once our moon is relocated to Earth
L1.

http://groups.google.com/groups/search
http://translate.google.com/#
Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth Venus”
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Old October 6th 12, 08:12 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Oct 6, 6:35*am, "G=EMC^2" wrote:
On Oct 6, 2:27*am, Painius wrote:









On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:50:56 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


"Painius" wrote in message
news On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:27:55 -0400, "jonathan" wrote:


The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....


"What the hell is astrobiology"?


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...905EFFAL00P295...


Gee.


For a subject that involves extraterrestrial life, which hasn't yet
been proved, and which, around here anybody who mentions it gets an
automatic "ko0k" label, that's a lotta abstracts! *LOL !


And they aren't graduate assistant wet-dreams anymore.
But mainstream researchers, and from all over.


The Opportunity Rover has shown everyone a vast potential
ecosystem has and does exist on Mars. So vast and habitable
the assumption is now that microbial life...should have evolved.


Vast stretches of the northern half of Mars have water ice
levels as high as 60% just a few meters below the surface.
And the temperatures rise as you go deeper, along with
more protection from solar radiation. Combined with
the salty soil, *there should be a vast subsurface layer with
almost ideal conditions for microbrial life.


The only surprise now would be if life ...didn't evolve.


Look at this MSL rover image from just the other day.
At the very upper right is the mountain it's approaching.
See all those fine layers, one after another? Those are all layers
of sediment, each one formed on the bottom of a body of water
now *eroded away and exposed as with the Grand Canyon.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima.../ods/surface/s....


Some of those rocks in the foreground remind me of shells on a beach!


And the band of dark soil that always seem to follow
the very same outline that a body of water would follow
were it there. Hinting that water ice exists below the
dark soil.


It will be very interesting to explore the dark recesses below the
surface of planet Mars!


--
Indelibly yours,
Paine @http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/
"Friends need no explanations; enemies will not believe you."- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


1.7 billion and no drill. *Seeing and testing the top sand began long
time ago. Mafia NASA is not giving us a bang for tax bucks. *TeBet.


Sending a full-blown robotic TBM to Mars, should only cost us a few
trillion.
 




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