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IceBite Blog: Saying Farewell to a Frozen World
NASA’s IceBite team recently returned from their first field season in Antarctica, where they installed scientific probes in the ice and scouted for sites to test drills for future Mars missions. In this installment of her blog, Margarita Marinova, describes a grueling hike to valleys near the team’s outpost, and reflects on her return to civilization.
The Astrobiology Magazine is providing a direct link to scientists on the IceBite team, where readers can ask questions about the science being conducted in Antarctica.Source: [astrobio.net]
February 2, 2010 / Written by: Margarita Marinova
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IceBite Blog: Living in a Freezer
NASA’s IceBite team recently returned from their first field season in Antarctica. In this installment of blog entries, Margarita Marinova discusses what it’s like to live and work in such a harsh environment. As she explains, being an astrobiolgist means performing scientific research in some of Earth’s most remote and unique locations.
The Astrobiology Magazine is providing a direct link to scientists on the IceBite team, where readers can ask questions about the science being conducted in Antarctica.Source: [astrobio.net]
January 28, 2010 / Written by: Margarita Marinova
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IceBite Blog: University Valley
NASA’s IceBite team recently returned from their first field season in Antarctica. In this third set of blog entries by team member Margarita Marinova, she discusses the team’s recent trip to the extremely dry and cold environment of Antarctica’s University Valley.
Currently, the Astrobiology Magazine is providing a direct link to scientists on the IceBite team, where readers can ask questions about the science being conducted in Antarctica.Source: [astrobio.net]
January 19, 2010 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal
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Astrobiology Opens Pandora's Box
Lisa Kaltenegger from NAI’s MIT team discusses exoplanets and science fiction with CNN World, noting that it’s likely many moons such as Avatar’s Pandora exist, and we’re that much closer to finding them with NASA’s Kepler mission.
Source: [CNN World]
January 11, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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IceBite Blog: Visiting Lake Joyce
A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season of NASA’s IceBite project. The team installed scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground and scouted for sites where drills for future Mars missions will be tested next year. In this second set of blog entries by team member Margarita Marinova, she discusses the trip to their first field site, Lake Joyce.
Currently, the Astrobiology Magazine is providing a direct link to scientists on the IceBite team, where readers can ask questions about the science being conducted in Antarctica.Source: [astrobio.net]
January 11, 2010 / Written by: Margarita Marinova
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Kepler: The First Five
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
Kepler’s high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. The discoveries were announced Monday, Jan. 4, by the members of the Kepler science team during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
Source: [Astrobio.net]
January 4, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Could Kepler Find Avatar's Moon Pandora?
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA’s Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we find them nearby, a new paper by Smithsonian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger shows that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be able to study their atmospheres and detect key gases like carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor.
“If Pandora existed, we potentially...
Source: [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]
December 17, 2009 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
