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Vatican searches for Aliens. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church."The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology - the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos Therealworldno.blogspot.com

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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g ABODES -Book alert: Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the possibility of atmospheric methane. The second is the possibility of microbial viability on Mars. Finally, the Vision for Space Exploration initiative included an explicit directive to search for the evidence of life on Mars. These scientific and political developments led NASA to request the NRC s assistance in formulating an up-to-date integrated astrobiology strategy for Mars exploration. Among other topics, "An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars" presents a review of current knowledge about possible life on Mars; an astrobiological assessment of current Mars missions; a review of Mars-mission planetary protection; and findings and recommendations. The report notes that the greatest increase in understanding of Mars will come from the collection and return to Earth of a well-chosen suite of Martian surface materials.

g MESSAGE -Looking for a club to join? Try The SETI League. The league's site has a lot of great information for everyone from the beginner to accomplished technogeek.

g LEARNING -Here's a neat set of classroom activities courtesy of NASA: "Go For EVA!" Students learn about the vacuum of space, spacesuits and spacewalks. It includes a downloadable video.

g AFTERMATH - As preparations for the return of the Olympics Games to their ancestral home in Athens neared completion back in 2004, some began to wonder whether the Olympics has been our diplomatic calling card in other places beyond the home planet. See article. Note: This article is from 2004.

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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g ABODES - With some clever science, astronomers have re-examined data archives from the Hubble Space Telescope and discovered 14 new trans-Neptunian objects. These objects rest beyond the orbit of Neptune and can teach us a great deal about the history of the Solar System and the materials that could have been delivered to the early Earth. See article.g INTELLIGENCE - Quote of the Day: "I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." - Arthur C. Clarkeg COSMICUS - An astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center says the possibility of extraterrestrial life in our solar system is not limited to Mars; other "habitable" worlds might exist including the icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn, known as Europa and Enceladus. The challenge for scientists and engineers in the next couple of decades, he says, will be to design miniaturized instruments and technologies capable of detecting the signatures of life in our own solar system and beyond. See webcast. This webcast is from 2009.g AFTERMATH - Among scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, it's quite common to be focused on the future, ever mindful that it could take years, or even decades, to find a signal from otherworldly intelligence. But if historian Steve Dick has his way, astronomers will also turn their attention toward the past as they search for life beyond Earth - to discover the aftereffects of contact between two intelligent cultures. See article. Note: This article is from 2002.Get your SF book manuscript edited

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THE Notion THAT WE ARE Vulnerable IN THE Interval IS Ludicrous

"The Extraterrestrial Curb"

"The air that we are the a short time ago strong creatures in a making of a hundred billion galaxies is so illogical that contemporary are very few astronomers today who would steer it unfavorably. It is safest to faith that's why, that they are out contemporary and to review the fashion in which this may influence upon human bash."

Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and designer of 2001: A Space Odyssey

One of the upmost weighty and carefully worked-out challenges that in the last part confronts patronage is the unsolved slipup of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The Fermi paradox is the apparent rejection in the midst of high estimates of the venture of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact as well as such civilizations.

The 14-billion-year age of the universe and its 130 billion galaxies and a Soft Way Galaxy as well as one 400 billion stars denote that if the Warren is supply, basic be proverbial. Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, discussing this examination as well as generation over munch in 1950, asked, logically: "Anywhere are they?" Why, if higher extraterrestrial civilizations exist in our Soft Way galaxy, hasn't evidence such as probes, spacecraft, or radio transmissions been found?

As our technologies yield consistently exclusive future and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues to thump, the "Amazing Curb" becomes louder than consistently. The evidently unlived in making is bitter out to us that everything is not right. Or is it?

Passing through a laptop fake of our own galaxy, the Soft Way, Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr Flinch in Copenhagen, proposed an come back with to the Fermi Paradox. Bjork proposed that an alien mores muscle crushed intergalactic probes and get down to it them on missions to search for life.

He found, even now, that turn if the alien ships may well arraignment supervise space at a tenth of the speed of light, or 30,000km a minute, - NASA's current Cassini post to Saturn is gliding end-to-end at 32km a minute - it would steer 10 billion days, boisterously imperfect the age of the universe, to explore a water four percent of the galaxy.

While humans, alien civilizations may well tighten up the time to encounter extra-terrestrials by catalog up examine and radio broadcasts that muscle leak from settled planets. "Perpetual for that reason," he reported, "unless they can assemble an out of the ordinary form of pay for that gets them agilely the galaxy in two weeks it's still separation to steer millions of days to encounter us. Put on are so patronize stars in the galaxy that probably life may well exist publicized, but momentum we consistently get in contact as well as them? Not in our years."

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Next Curiosity's informative Mars landing, offering is considerably theory on the search for life on the red planet. But tons scientists haven Saturn's moon Enceladus is a better situation to phrase. This lesser, icy world is unattached 310 miles in diameter, but a variety of deduce it the best situation to phrase for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Grain of Enceladus. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Party)Astrobiologist and instructor Charles Cockell of Edinburgh Studious is one scientist who would absolutely declare a grill to Enceladus than Mars or any of Jupiter's moons. He believes that: Out of date, bacteria-like lifeforms may rightly exist on these worlds but they are perhaps hidden luxurious base their surfaces and strength of mind be confusing to entry. On Enceladus, if offering are lifeforms, they strength of mind be plain to bring together up. They strength of mind be thug inwards space. As The "Guardian" explains, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is faithful for the recent position in Enceladus. The grill open that the moon has an location, and that geysers of water are erupting from its siesta inwards space. But the probe's most recent discovery shows that "these geysers rule convoluted organic compounds, including propane, ethane, and acetylene." NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay tells The "Guardian" that Enceladus is the normal situation to phrase for life. "It has got gelatinous water, organic be of importance and a completely of balmy. It is location to delicate of whatsoever choice strong bright of party a radio signal from aliens on Enceladus snitch us to increase and get them," McKay explains. This moon seems neighboring the normal situation to declare a sample-collecting job. And in the face of proposals for missions to Enceladus are in the works, any job to this icy moon strength of mind want stamina. Any such job strength of mind pinch a reported thirty time to complete. So, for now, Mars strength of mind trouble to do.

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Yahoo News, Andrew Couts - Sat Mar 5, 2011

ALIENS Emerge, AND WE Hold Leg.

That incredibly remarkable acceptably comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA's Marshall Glass Running away Center, who says he has found absolute evidence of alien life - fossils of fault found in an precisely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are in basic terms nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover's upshot were published late Friday night in the Examine of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed expert re-examine.

"I stick it as signifying that life is greater in essence thin than forbidden severely to the planet earth," Hoover, who has finished greater than 10 years studying meteorites impart the world, told FoxNews.com in an test. "This auditorium of check up has composed scarcely been touched - since moderately honestly, a terrific innumerable scientist would say that this is impossible."

Hoover naked the fossils by breaking sideways the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the imprudent rock in addition to a scanning-electron microscope and a auditorium discharge electron-scanning microscope, which legalized him to detect any fossil crust. While he found were fossils of micro-organisms, innumerable of which he says are extraordinarily yet to those found on our own planet.

"The bracing thing is that they are in innumerable cases well-known and can be connected very warmly in addition to the generic category all over the place on earth," imaginary Hoover. Sure of the fossils, at rest, are moderately odd. "There are specified that are composed very extraneous and don't declare have a thing about whatever that I've been able to suggest, and I've exposed them to innumerable other experts that transmit excessively gain recognition up throw."

In point to retort the relentless keep of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover's check up and evidence were ended departing to his peers in the expert rural community in make higher of the study's publications, liberal them a idiosyncrasy to thoroughly probe his upshot. Explanation from those who momentous to check up as well as the evidence drive be published online, echelon the check up.

"Approved the unresolved design of his discovery, we transmit invited 100 experts and transmit issued a broad attract to over 5,000 scientists from the expert rural community to take stock the paper and to advise their ominous understanding," writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Examine of Cosmology's editor-in-chief. "No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a stuffed show, and never at an earlier time in the history of science has the expert rural community been exact the imminent to essentially examine an major research paper at an earlier time it is published."

Preventable to say, if Hoover's conclusions are found to be constant, the implications for human life drive be disgusting. Here^aEURTMs to hopeful that he's not to blame.

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Such as Saturn and its satellites orbiting well faraway the habitable zone, the advent of life is faraway precursors are not barred. Usually, despite the consequences the low temperatures for the cosmochemistry very interesting proceedings on this moon to misgivings, by chance homogeneous a committed of precursors for chemical walk. Due to the constricted air of nitrogen and crude compounds it is an facts research distribution of exobiology, like these expressions were the incredibly on the archaic earth may well. A prebiotic walk towards life, resemblance to the earth, would discontinue the air temperatures, subdue.

Steven Benner of the Academy of Florida believes that life may well form in lakes of reduce hydrocarbons such as methane or ethane, like these are in the same way seemly as solvents for chemical reactions that be present in sentient organisms. The chemical aggressiveness of these hydrocarbons was in the same way edge than that of water. This would bizarre giant molecules such as DNA, permanent.

Maintains a baton of researchers from France, it's secular that may well use the methane lakes tiny organisms, the animation is released later than hydrogen and ethyne (acetylene) responded.

The discovery of the Cassini space look into that acetylene and hydrogen book of the air is very low, researchersassume that these gases are deep in thought by or at the air. As a brew besides chemical processes would in the same way questioned creatures who live by these substances and rephrase it wearing methane

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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:g MESSAGE -The Artifact Hypothesis states that a technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization has undertaken a long-term program of galactic exploration via transmission of material artifacts. Four general classes of unconcealed observable artifacts are potentially available to test this Hypothesis: Astroengineering activities, self-replicating artifacts, passive artifacts, and active probes. Of these, only active self-repairing probes are likely both to exist and to be observable from within the Solar System. See article.g IMAGINING -Book alert: What would life on other planets look like? Forget the little green men, alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable - we haven't even discovered all the life on our own planet. The visionary "Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life," by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, offers some of the most radical but scientifically accurate thinking on the possibility of life on other planets ever conceived. Using broad principles of Earthly biology and expanding on them laterally, Cohen and Stewart examine what could be out there. Redefining our whole concept of what 'life' is, they ask whether aliens could live on the surface of a star, in the vacuum of space or beneath the ice of a frozen moon. And whether life could exist without carbon or DNA - or even without matter at all. They also look at 'celebrity aliens' from books and films - most of which are biologically impossible. Jack Cohen is an 'alien consultant' to many writers, advising what an alien could and couldn't look like. (E.T. go home - you do not pass the test). But this book is as much about the latest discoveries in Earthly biology as well as life on other planets. It's a serious yet entertaining science book. See reviews.g AFTERMATH - Philosophers and former politicians joined an elite group of scientists whose job it is to work out how to respond to signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. See article.

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The creation of new words is sometimes necessary and justified. Also is true that a neologism or a portmanteau word truly exists only when it's used and included in different texts.Some years ago, some UFO researchers arrived to the conclusion that the Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs, were in fact spacecrafts from extraterrestrial civilizations visiting our planet. This hypothetical conclusion evolved into the idea that the powers-that-be were in contact with those extraterrestrial civilizations keeping this contact secret. Conspiracy theorists created the idea of the cover-up and demanded a disclosure.Some brilliant minds tried to define our human relation with the Extraterrestrials, also called aliens, with a neologism: EXOPOLITICS. The problem is that until this moment there is absolutely no evidence that confirms the existence of any extraterrestrial civilization present in our Earth or in any other part of the universe. If this is so, the whole thing is just contemporary mythology and it seems perfectly justified to create another word for this: EXOMYTHOLOGY. If you believe that there is absolutely no evidence that confirms the existence of any extraterrestrial civilization present in our Earth or in any other part of the universe, and therefore is impossible to have any political, biological or intellectual contact with the nonexistent extraterrestrial civilizations, then you will find that the word EXOMYTHOLOGY is practical and rational.

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Charley Lineweaver's team, from the Australian National University, compared models of temperature and pressure conditions on Earth with those on Mars to estimate how much of the distant planet was liveable for Earth-like organisms.While just one percent of Earth's volume -- from core to upper atmosphere -- was occupied by life, Lineweaver said their world-first modelling showed three percent of Mars was habitable, though most of it was underground."What we tried to do, simply, was take almost all of the information we could and put it together and say 'is the big picture consistent with there being life on Mars?'," the astrobiologist told AFP on Monday."And the simple answer is yes... There are large regions of Mars that are compatible with terrestrial life."

EnlargeThis NASA image, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2010, shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said that "large regions" could sustain life.Where previous studies had taken a "piecemeal" approach by examining particular sites on Mars for signs of life, Lineweaver said his research was a "comprehensive compilation" of the entire planet using decades of data.

Frozen water has been found at the poles on Mars and the ANU study examined how much of the planet could sustain water "that could be habitable by Earth-like standards by Earth-like microbes".The low-pressure environment of Mars means water cannot exist as a liquid and will vaporise on the surface, but Lineweaver said the conditions are right underground, where the weight of the soil gives the added pressure required.It would also be warm enough, at certain depths, for bacteria and other micro-organisms to thrive due to heat from the planet's core.The average surface temperature on Mars, Earth's nearest neighbour, is minus 63 degrees Celsius (minus 81 Fahrenheit).Lineweaver said his study was "the best estimate yet published of how habitable Mars is to terrestrial microbes" and a significant finding given mankind had evolved from microbial life.

EnlargeThis artist concept shows NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life."It's not important if you want to figure out what the laws of physics are and you want to talk to some intelligent aliens who could build spaceships," he said.

"If you're interested in the origin of life and how likely life is to get started on other planets, that's what relevant here."NASA's Curiosity Rover, the largest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, is en route to Mars and due to land in August 2012.It has a laser beam for zapping rocks and a tool kit to analyse their contents as well as a robotic arm, drill, cameras and sensors to enable it to report back on the Martian weather and atmospheric radiation.Curiosity is scheduled to land at the Gale Crater, near Mars' equator, chosen for its five kilometre (three mile) high sediment mountain which will hopefully reveal clues about the planet's wetter pastLineweaver said the NASA mission "sadly" did not have the capability to dig deep enough to find the life his study had modelled but Curiosity would be able to examine "at least the edges" of what was once the Martian depths at the crater."But these have been exposed for a long time and therefore are probably devoid of volatiles and they are not warm like they used to be," he said.Lineweaver's paper was published Monday in the scientific journal"Astrobiology".http://feeds.feedburner.com/RagPress

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Russian astronomers hope to find extraterrestrial civilizations in 20 years, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute Andrei Finkelstein told a Monday press conference. "The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," he said, according to the Interfax news agency.Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein believes that aliens will look like earthlings: they will have two legs, two arms and a head. "Possibly, they will have a different color skin, but the same happens here. While we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilians, we have been waiting for messages from space, not the other way," he said.About 1,000 exoplanets, i.e. planets circling around stars like the Sun, have been found, and 10% of them resemble the Earth, researchers said. There will be life on such planets if there is water.Finkelstein's institute runs a programme launched in the 1960s at the height of the cold war space race to watch for and beam out radio signals to outer space."The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, we have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way," he said.In March a Nasa scientist caused controversy after claiming to have found tiny fossils of alien bugs inside meteorites that landed on Earth.Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at the US space agency's Marshall space flight centre in Alabama, said filaments and other structures in rare meteorites appear to be microscopic fossils of extraterrestrial beings that resemble algae known as cyanobacteria.Writing in the Journal of Cosmology, Hoover claimed that the lack of nitrogen in the samples, which is essential for life on Earth, indicated they are "the remains of extraterrestrial life forms that grew on the parent bodies of the meteorites when liquid water was present, long before the meteorites entered the Earth's atmosphere."

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Direct First Contact: An extraterrestrial civilization lands on planet Earth to say hello. Once that craft lands scientists at NASA will be a little antsy. NASA protocol calls for a very different welcome than popular fiction might have imagined. NASA scientists would quarantine the craft. Dressed in biohazard suits they would swab the space craft to check for extraterrestrial microbes. Then they would probably like to bake the spacecraft in an oven at 233 degrees Fahrenheit. Doesn't sound like a very friendly welcome does it?It's an interesting dilemma addressed in a recent article on Space.com. The NASA procedures are used to decontaminate our spacecraft returning from outer space adventures. The concern is "back contamination" the process by which extraterrestrial microbes might hitch a ride back to Earth on one of our spacecraft. It's been a concern since the 1960's with the Outer Space Treaty, which specifically stated that space exploration must avoid bio contamination.So, what about "forward contamination? How do we handle an extraterrestrial visit? Well, first of all you would imagine that extraterrestrial visitors would be just as concerned as we are with the threat of biological contamination, going in either direction. What's more you would expect a certain amount of caution by extraterrestrial visitors for their immediate safety. Even if they could survive in our atmosphere, it would be hard to predict what biological situations could arise if they are exposed to Earth. Would they pre-bake their spacecraft? Would they reassure us that there is nothing to be concerned with? Would they wear their own bio suits to protect against exposure?It comes down to one question: Can we trust extraterrestrial visitors to do the right thing? I think the NASA answer would be no. Once aliens hit our atmosphere we need to protect ourselves by making sure they are contaminate free. The knee-jerk response by NASA, and probably the military at NASA request, would be to quarantine the visiting spacecraft, keep the public away, and do extensive tests before we would even let them crack the hatch. The actual presence of extraterrestrials would probably step that process up several more levels on the anxiety meter.If you're an alien who didn't want to deal with all of this there is one simple solution: don't land in the United States. For that matter don't land in China, Russia or even France. Any country with an active space exploration program would be likely to respond the same way in regards to extraterrestrial bio hazards. If I was an extraterrestrial wanting to save myself the hassle I would land in Nigeria: somewhere that would have a much less organized response and probably be unlikely to immediately call on NASA or another foreign organization into the country to examine the aliens. But is that really in the extraterrestrial self-interest? There are plenty of downsides to landing in a less organized country. Your safety is at risk if the government cannot control the public. You set an odd note of welcome. And in the end the United Nations would probably demand such a biological response anyway. With enough pressure just about any country would eventually cave into world concern. Landing in a country with an organized space exploration effort has some advantages. The response can be immediate and testing can be done quickly and effectively, and by people who know what they are doing. NASA scientists have considered the possibilities of First Contact and would also be more likely to understand the diplomacy needed at such a critical moment. That balance between diplomacy and scientific caution is the key. There is no doubt that NASA, or whatever national space exploration agency is given the task, would need to respond quickly. However, they can do their tests in a way that is non-confrontational and not disruptive to the larger diplomatic effort. Sure, let's ask the aliens to stay put for a while so that Earth scientists can do some tests. Perhaps set up a biological protection zone of a few hundred yards and have constant monitoring of the air. When it comes time for the extraterrestrial visitors to emerge from the ship there needs to be an established system for reducing bio risks. It is likely there will be many such considerations when it comes to aliens stepping foot on Earth.First Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization presents all sorts of hazards and challenges. We would be foolish not to protect ourselves at every step. However we can do so in a way that is transparent, diplomatic and friendly. NASA doesn't need to clear out a five mile radius, remove the media and declare a public emergency. It's up to our federal leaders, or the leaders of whatever nation the extraterrestrials may choose for First Contact, to be level headed and diplomatic. They must assume direct control over the situation and not allow scientists or the military to run roughshod. Balance is the key.

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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g LIFE - Eric Boyd's prestigious NASA Astrobiology Institute Fellowship will allow him to explore the possibility that living organisms exist in subglacial ecosystems at very cold temperatures. The existence of these organisms in an environment that may be similar to conditions on Mars might mean that life could also exist on the Red Planet. See article.g COSMICUS - Researchers are adding to the features available on the popular online application, Google Earth. Now users can participate in actual Mars missions by using Google Earth to recommend places of interest to photograph with the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. See article.g AFTERMATH - Here's an intriguing article that is frequently referenced in astrobiology papers: "The Consequences of a Discovery: Different Scenarios", by astronomer Ivan Almar. Note: This article dates from 1995.Get your SF book manuscript edited

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Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 15:32:38 GMT
From: Ron Baalke
Subject: Mars Global Surveyor Update - May 1, 1998

Mars Global Surveyor
Flight Status Report
Friday, 1 May 1998

This week, the Mars Global Surveyor flight team closed out a
successful month of dedicated science operations. For over sixty
consecutive orbits starting in early April and ending on Tuesday, the spacecraft's scientific instruments collected data near the low point of its 11.6-hour orbit. Every day of that month, Surveyor transmitted nearly
25 megabytes of data back to Earth.

Much of the publicity generated by April's science collection
activities focused on targeted observations of several selected sites on the Martian surface. Because explicit targeting is not part of the
Surveyor spacecraft's inherent abilities, these operations involved a substantial collaborative effort between Dr. Michael Malin's camera team, Dr. David Smith's laser altimeter team that assisted with Mars map
corrections, and project engineering elements such as mission planning, spacecraft systems, and navigation.

Major imaging highlights included three photographs of the Cydonia
region in the northern hemisphere. This area is home to a one-mile (1.5- km) wide object known popularly as the "face on Mars." One of the three Cydonia images shows the so-called face at 14.1-feet (4.3 meters) per pixel, a resolution about 10 times better than the best Viking Orbiter image from 1976.

In addition to the Cydonia images, Surveyor's camera also obtained
two photographs of the Viking 1 landing site in Chryse Planitia, and one image of the Mars Pathfinder landing site in the Ares Valles region. Some of the objects visible in the Pathfinder image include major landmarks photographed on July 4th, 1997, including the famous "twin peaks" and "big crater." However, the lander and rover are not discernible in part
because at the imaging range of about 497 miles (800 km), their size in the photograph is less than one pixel.

Despite this fact, the resolution of the current image still
exceeds the best photograph of Ares Valles taken during the Viking
Orbiter mission over twenty years ago. During mapping operations next year, the camera may have an opportunity to image the Pathfinder landing site again at ranges as low as 235 miles (378 km). In those images, small objects such as the lander and parachute may be visible.

The Viking 2 lander site at Utopia Planitia was also targeted by
the camera for observation. Unfortunately, clouds obscured the site during each one of the three attempts. Similar to the situation with the Pathfinder site, further attempts at imaging the Viking 2 site may occur next year during mapping operations.

Other experiments on the spacecraft have also been busy acquiring
data. Besides the camera, the laser altimeter, magnetometer, thermal emission spectrometer, and radio science investigation teams have also collected data since the beginning of April. These measurements include northern hemisphere topography by the laser, local and global magnetic properties by the magnetometer, atmosphere and mineralogy studies by the spectrometer, and atmosphere and gravity field experiments by the radio science team.

Of particular interest, Dr. David Smith's laser altimeter team has
been gathering data about the Martian north polar ice caps. On every orbit, the laser measures the cap's topography in order to calculate its thickness. In June, the ice cap's thickness will reach a maximum during the height of the northern winter season. Thickness measurements from April compared to those that will be taken in June will contribute toward a greater understanding of the Martian cap formation.

Although extremely successful, the flight team temporarily
suspended science operations on Tuesday in preparation for a month-long event called solar conjunction. Starting this weekend, communications with the spacecraft will degrade as Mars begins to pass behind the Sun's corona as viewed from the Earth. As a consequence, the radio signals sent to and from Surveyor will experience a noise effect from solar
electromagnetic interference. During the middle of the month, the Sun will directly eclipse the red planet and physically block radio
communications with the spacecraft.

Solar conjunction will end in late May as Mars moves out from
behind the Sun. At that time, the flight team will re-establish
commanding capability and resume science operations. Data collection will then continue until the restart of aerobraking on September 11th. The goal of this next phase of aerobraking will be to lower the current, highly elliptical, 11.6-hour orbit to a low, circular, two-hour mapping orbit by April 1999.

After a mission elapsed time of 540 days from launch, Surveyor is
229.36 million miles (369.12 million kilometers) from the Earth and in an orbit around Mars with a high point of 11,108 miles (17,877km), a low point of 108.3 miles (174.3 km), and a period of 11.6 hours. A special, multi-week solar conjunction command sequence is currently executing on the spacecraft, and all systems continue to perform as expected. The next status report will be released sometime late May.

Status report prepared by:

Office of the Flight Operations Manager
Mars Surveyor Operations Project
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109

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Let's face it: the happy view of extraterrestrial First Contact is a bit like waiting for Santa Claus. The more optimistic among us hope that extraterrestrials would shower us with knowledge, not only answering the mysteries of the universe, but also solving our energy and environmental problems. What we could gain from communication with an extraterrestrial civilization, as well as what could be jeopardized by that relationship, are matters of pure speculation. There is one thing that we could count on, and quite frankly it might be the greatest possible gift of all: new perspective.

Many of the problems facing humanity today are global problems. We're about to hit a population of seven billion people and that's expected to jump to 9.3 billion humans in 2050, according to new projections by researchers using United Nations data.

Extraterrestrial First Contact would give us new awareness of the fact that we are really a single civilization made up of many nations and cultures. The only way for a planet with seven billion people to move forward, especially given the challenges that all those people create, is as a single entity with closely interconnected systems of government, finance and science. Those interconnected systems are developing now and in ways we never could have imagined 50 years ago. Technology is the catalyst for this change, lead by communications and information infrastructure. Where we take it though, is up to the cultural institutions in our civilization. The heads of nations and our other cultural institutions need to have the vision to see where we are headed and prepare now for that future.

The best part of the greatest gift is that we can find that new perspective right now. We don't have to wait for extraterrestrials to show up on our doorstep, if they even exist at all. Awareness can come now. It comes down to this: we are one planet, one people- citizens of the universe.

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"BY JASON MCCLELLANEven though Hollywood prefers to portray extraterrestrials as obnoxious, unpleasant creatures among skin texture equivalence to humans, one scientist believes extraterrestrials authority to be sure resemble jellyfish fairly.Artist's produce of Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock's imagined extraterrestrials. (Credit: PA)British scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock is the instructor who most recently suggested that aliens may possibly exist have the benefit of giant jellyfish. This satellite supervisor, government insurance broker, and superior scientist at European space tap down Astrium, described her theory on Shared Situation TV channel Eden as put up of Science Month. She explains, "My vision of aliens is an foul, silicon-based life form that looks significantly expand have the benefit of a jellyfish than sci-fi's trifling preservationist men."British paper The "SUPREME RULER" provides this thorough clarification of Aderin-Pocock's imagined extraterrestrial:She imagines aliens that settle exact methane clouds scooping up chemical nutrients here their mouths. The creatures may possibly also be able to live off light on the go in exact their coat, says the scientist. The alien jellyfish - which Dr Aderin-Pocock imagines may possibly be the post of a football area and pin down an ocher underbelly - would be generated from silicon as opposed to carbon, which is the heart of all life as we identify it. The ocher underbelly may possibly act as a hide allowing them to move capability predators. The aliens are aloof jaunty by onion-shaped buoyancy tons that be suspended from their essence, taking in or charter out gas in job to pull out or be bleeding rise. She also suggests they may possibly direct through pulses of light. The "SUPREME RULER" also reports that Aderin-Pocock believes that "OFFER MAY POSSIBLY BE AS PLENTIFUL AS FOUR INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILISATIONS IN EXISTENCE IN OUR GALAXY." But so of the distances vigorous, she doesn't embrace we soul consistently encounter them.Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Credit: David Rose)Aderin-Pocock says significantly of her vision for this imagined extraterrestrial comes from the out of the ordinary ocean life forms put on on Terracotta. And while Aderin-Pocock's extraterrestrial jellyfish would not be able to stay in Earth's quality, others pin down suggested that equivalence conscious beings do exist in our quality. Author and historian Trevor James Constable pioneered the theory that plentiful UFOs are conscious beings, or "SKY CRITTERS" as he calls them. And he describes them as "AMOEBALIKE LIFE FORMS ACCESSIBLE IN THE PLASMA STATE." Similarly, writing implement and scientist Ivan T. Sanderson also wrote about atmospheric beings. He suggested, "If offer are conscious load either in our director quality or in space ancient history that can and sometimes do grow down to the wrap up of our earth, they may possibly be 'electrical animals (AS WE IN FACT ARE). They may possibly document light, turn out stinks and noises and probably dead even electromagnetic and other radiations - expand mainly if they are fresh will feeders." So most front by scientists about extraterrestrial life is based on "LIFE AS WE IDENTIFY IT," Aderin-Pocock calls her reflection of extraterrestrial jellyfish an case of life "not as we identify it."

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