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Mars Was Life-Friendly More Recently than Thought »» Mars Was Life-Friendly More Recently than Thought

[Tuesday, June 30, 2009] Warm weather near the Martian equator may have melted the ice in ice-rich soils as recently as 2 million years ago, according to a paper published yesterday in "Earth and Planetary Science Letters."

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NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans »» NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans

[Sunday, June 28, 2009] NASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like alien (extrasolar) worlds have oceans.

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Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth »» Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

[Saturday, June 27, 2009] Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.

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Salt Finding from NASA's Cassini Hints at Ocean within Saturn Moon »» Salt Finding from NASA's Cassini Hints at Ocean within Saturn Moon

[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring.

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The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Is Closing Down »» The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Is Closing Down

[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] Unfortunately, with the current economy and priorities at NASA, the time has come to close out the program and look forward to the next adventure.

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New Instrument Could Detect Water Underground on Mars »» New Instrument Could Detect Water Underground on Mars

[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.

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Snowball Earth: Antarctica As A Natural Laboratory »» Snowball Earth: Antarctica As A Natural Laboratory

[Monday, June 22, 2009] Stephen Warren's research concerns the ice conditions that may have existed during a time dubbed Snowball Earth, when ice and snow blanketed the planet so completely that even the ocean surface at the equator froze.

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Why Is the Definition of Life So Elusive? Epistemological Considerations »» Why Is the Definition of Life So Elusive? Epistemological Considerations

[Saturday, June 20, 2009] A central question of astrobiology concerns the origin and distribution of life in the Universe. For this reason, astrobiology can be considered to fall within the science called transitional biology.

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Preservation of Biological Markers in Clasts Within Impact Melt Breccias from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island »» Preservation of Biological Markers in Clasts Within Impact Melt Breccias from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island

[Saturday, June 20, 2009] The 39+/-2Ma Haughton impact structure on Devon Island comprises a thick target succession of sedimentary rocks, mainly carbonates.

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Effects of a Spaceflight Environment on Heritable Changes in Wheat Gene Expression »» Effects of a Spaceflight Environment on Heritable Changes in Wheat Gene Expression

[Saturday, June 20, 2009] Once it was established that the spaceflight environment was not a drastic impediment to plant growth, a remaining space biology question was whether long-term spaceflight exposure could cause changes in subsequent generations.

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