Administrative reminder

2002-03-14 Thread Jeff Foust
Hello, The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list was created to serve as a discussion forum for a proposed "Europa Icepick" mission as well as about the moon Europa in general. Please follow these few simple guidelines to help you and others get the most out of this mailing list: 1) Please limit your

Important article on Decadal Survey

2002-03-14 Thread Bruce Moomaw
Space.com has just done a piece on the Decadal Survey report, which is now complete (though it still must be reviewd), adn "should hit desks at NASA by late March or early April": http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/solar_system_020314.html 3 important pieces of news: (1) It may crit

Re: Biological dark spots on Mars? (Part 2)

2002-03-14 Thread AnthonieM
Here in Minnesota fungus becomes visible upon the melting of the snow cover in the spring. Maybe the snow worms live on this fungus? More generally, I think that the - billions costing - search for life in the universe should occur simultaneously with a comprehensive - only millions costing -

Martian spiders paper

2002-03-14 Thread G. Orme
    With regard to the polar spots subject mentioned earlier. I was corresponding with Eors Szathmary who was one of the co authors for these papers, as I was writing an article on the spider formations on the Martian south pole. This has now been published in the latest issue of the Journal

Re: Biological dark spots on Mars? (Part 2)

2002-03-14 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 3/13/2002 8:17:34 AM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you aware that the presence of algae on ice is very common on Earth? And that that presence is clearly visible? In addition to within ice, algae are often found on the the ice-air and ice-seawater interfa